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Confused about recycling? Help is coming to reduce your waste.
By Rick Edwards, on the board of advisors for Sustainable Wenatchee With so many changes happening in the last several years on the...
Mar 12, 20224 min read


Bulk Up! Zero waste shopping 101
Guest blog by Madelyn Schwilke “Zero waste” grocery shopping is sometimes hard to achieve, and can feel impossible when almost every food...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Sustain Your Style - Get Thrifty
By Jenny Montgomery, SW board secretary Today our feeds are flooded with perfectly curated and targeted mass marketing ads. Everything...
Mar 12, 20224 min read


Are Microfibers a Future Health Risk?
I first met Elsa through our EcoChallenge.org discussion group, reading through Seeing Systems last summer and fall. She joined our group...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Opportunities
By Cassie Bogdan Slemmer, SW board member One thing we all have in common: we need to get energy from food on a regular basis. The...
Mar 12, 20224 min read


Keeping up with the Joneses'... garbage can.
By Jana Fischback City of Wenatchee residents who are Waste Management customers recently joined the rest of the area in being able to...
Mar 12, 20225 min read


Hydrogen cars: the new kid on the block?
By Jana Fischback {A different version of this blog was published in the Wenatchee World.] Sometimes my work in sustainability gives me...
Mar 12, 20225 min read


Handmade Matters
By Jenny Montgomery, SW board secretary (Photos by Jenny or from the business' Instagram) We live in a world where mass-produced goods...
Mar 12, 20224 min read


What's in your bottle?
By Betsy Dudash, SW board president Whenever someone offers me a drink of unfiltered tap water, I flinch just a little. My tongue still...
Mar 12, 20222 min read


About that bidet...
As you might remember, Betsy shared options for "Going, sustainably" in a blog post last February. That was before the infamous TP...
Mar 12, 20222 min read


Don't be Trashy: lessons from litter
By Jana Fischback This year, instead of hosting just one volunteer opportunity on Make a Difference Day, October 24th, we at Sustainable...
Mar 12, 20222 min read


What would we like for our birthday, you ask?
This is a big day for Sustainable Wenatchee! Today, October 30th, is our "3rd birthday." Three years ago today, Sustainable Wenatchee was...
Mar 12, 20222 min read


Protecting Trees and the Future
It's in our nature to take things for granted, and one of the best examples of that may be trees. Read below to learn just how many...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Have an "Eco-Fiendly" Halloween!
By Jana Fischback Halloween is just around the corner. If you’re like me, you haven’t bought candy yet. Not because I’m a procrastinator...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Joan always does a great job of breaking down climate crises issues. I'm grateful to have a climate change expert on our board. Here she...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


The Business of Compost
We've written about food waste before - check out Joan Qazi's blog post, "Food Waste > Wasted Food" - but here, board president Betsy...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Community victories in gardening
"A garden… is a solution that leads to other solutions,” wrote writer and environmental activist, Wendell Berry in his book The Gift of...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


Recommitting to reusables
By Jana Fischback with help from Anne Theisen Two steps forward, one step back. The movement away from single-use plastic items was...
Mar 12, 20223 min read


The Ins and Outs of Electric Vehicles
By Betsy Dudash, Sustainable Wenatchee board member Last year, in a happy coincidence, three of my friends got electric vehicles. So,...
Mar 12, 20225 min read


Black Lives Matter
By Joan Qazi, board member While most people think about the environment when it comes to sustainability, the actual definition of...
Mar 12, 20222 min read
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