Welcome to Sustainable Bainbridge
It is no secret we humans live in critical times. The choices we make now, both individually and collectively, will have profound consequences for generations to come. Sustainable Bainbridge was formed to support cooperation and collaboration among a broad-based network of local organizations, businesses, government and individuals to protect and strengthen our community's social, environmental, and economic sustainability for current and future generations.
We invite you to take a look at the work we've been doing since the inception of Sustainable Bainbridge in the Spring of 2006. To learn more about our organization go to About Us. You can also check out our Intiatives; sign up for our monthly e-newsletter; attend Sustainble First Monday (a monthly public forum held the first Monday of every month at the Commons on Bune Drive) or join us at other events.
We hope you will be as inspired and excited as we are by the potential for Sustainable Bainbridge. Our success depends on the active participation of caring people like you. Please contact us with your ideas and sugestions.
What's New
Supporting a Local, Sustainable Gift-Giving Holiday Season!
This year, Sustainabe Bainbridge
is compiling a guide of opportunities for a sustainable holiday range from creating hand-made gifts with your families and patronizing local artists and craftspeople to purchasing tickets to local theatre and music productions as gifts, making donations in your giftees' names to charitable organizations, and buying local from Bainbridge merchants.
Please send us details of events or opportunities that you are sponsoring or are aware of, such as: arts and crafts sales, do-it-yourself gift workshops, local events and experiences that can be purchased as gift certificates, family holiday events, and Bainbridge stores and businesses that sell locally-made or “green” gifts.
Sustainable Bainbridge would also like suggestions for holiday-related giving opportunities to local charities, such as church gift trees. And the guide will include a list of “green” holiday practices, so let us know of resources for recycled wrapping paper and cards and ideas for low-environment-impact holiday decorations.
Contributions to the guide can be sent to info@sustainablebainbridge.net or by phone to 206/842-4439. Once compiled, the guide will be available here and through other media outlets.
Sustainable Bainbridge is proud to announce our new office in the Marge Williams Center,221 Winslow Way, alongside some of Bainbridge Island’s most notable nonprofit organizations!
Did you miss Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin's presentation during Green October? No worries! YES! Magazine filmed the event and has created several small videos by topic. Link here to see the videos!
Neighborhoods Unite! The City of Bainbridge Island, with the help of Ed Call, are working diligently to create resilient neighborhoods that can work together to handle a myriad of emergencies. Is your neighborhood prepared? Check out the COBI Emergency Preparedness web pages for more information on how to organize your neighborhood.
Photos from another successful electronic recycling event!
Inspiring Sustainable Practices in School-Local Bainbridge school, Voyager Montessori Elementary is committed to sustainable practices both inside and outside the classroom every school day. Read More...
Now available from the COBI Non-Motorized Transportation Advisory Committee, the City of Bainbridge Island Guide to Walking, Cycling, and Paddling! Copies of the map will be available at City Hall, Metro Parks Strawberry Hill office, Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Chamber of Commerce, both bike shops, the kayak shops, and other locations.You can also download the map from the City's website at:http://www.ci.bainbridge-isl.wa.us.