To celebrate the launch of the 2009 Chinook Book we will be celebrating at local green events around the Sound!  Stop by our booths at the Sustainable Edmonds and Sustainable Ballard Festivals for your chance to learn more about the best of what’s green and local.  We will also be raffling off amazing prizes donated by our partners.

**FEATURED: Chinook Book Launch Party!
Celebrate the launch of the 2009 Chinook Book! Join us for amazing appetizers and atmosphere provided by Herban Feast, organic Fish Tale beer, wine from Naked Wines, and live music performed by local guitarist Bill Horist. There will be drawings with fantastic prizes donated by our partners. Bring a friend and join us in toasting the best of what’s green and local in Seattle! A big thanks to our event partners, Herban Feast, Naked Wine, Goods for the Planet, South 47 Farm, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Molbak’s.  Admission is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP now by emailing jill.amsberry@ecometro.com, or by calling 206-281-1122.
September 17, 5:30-8pm
Herban Feast, 3200 1st Ave S, Seattle

Play: Salmon Homecoming Celebration: The Drum Beats for Everyone
This event celebrates the importance of Salmon to our region and especially the cultural significance to the First Nations. Celebrate with Native American drumming and dancing, multi-cultural performances arts and crafts and food vendors, environmental stations and more. Free event.
September 12-14, 10am-6pm daily
Waterfront Park, next to the Aquarium at Pier 59, Seattle
*Coupon: Receive on FREE admission to the Seattle Aquarium with the purchase of an adult admission.

Live: Green Edmonds Festival
Come see us at the First Annual Green Edmonds Festival! This outdoor festival will provide a fun and friendly environment for green businesses and organizations to showcase their products, services and ideas and for attendees to learn how to live a greener, healthier lifestyle. Exhibitors will offer everything from home improvement ideas to children's products to organic foods to arts and crafts. Sessions scheduled throughout the day on the solar-powered stage will provide easy, cost-effective ideas for living a Greener life. Chinook Book will be there raffling off great prizes so stop by our booth and say hi! Admission is free.
September 13, 11am-6pm
Frances Anderson Center Playfield, Edmonds

Live, Play: Downtown Kirkland’s Green Festival
Learn - Community outreach and local leaders’ presentations on green regional initiatives
Shop - Outdoor Eco-market, exhibit booths with green products and services
Play - Lively Street Dance - Come show off your moves!
Bring your family, friends, co-workers and business associates - they will thank you!!  Free and open to anyone.
September 17, 2-9pm
Park Lane, Downtown Kirkland

Play: National Park(ing) Day
National Park(ing) Day is an opportunity to celebrate parks in cities and promote the need for more parks by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces.  In 2005, Rebar, a San Francisco based art collective, created the first "PARK(ing)" project by transforming a metered parking spot into a temporary public park, briefly expanding the public realm and improving the quality of urban human habitat. Rebar's goals were to test the range of occupancy activities in a metered parking space, to encourage people to rethink the way streets are used, and to temporarily reclaim a portion of the street from the automobile.  National Park(ing) Day is an all-volunteer event, with local efforts headed by Feet First. For local participation information visit www.feetfirst.info.
September 19, 5pm-6pm
Anywhere

Live: West Coast Green

This year West Coast Green is all about innovation. Join companies from the front of the green line at this three day event with a residential focus. Business owners can spend the first two days learning about the newest residential products, with consumers welcome on the final day. This year Al Gore will be presenting as keynote speaker.

September 25-27

San Jose, California

Live, Play, Go and Eat! Sustainable Ballard 5th Annual Festival
Come visit the Chinook Book booth at the 5th Annual Sustainable Ballard Festival, play games and win prizes!  The first 200 people to visit the information booth each day will receive a copy of the 2009 Chinook Book compliments of Built Green.  Here are some additional festival highlights: Sewfun Bags, use surplus fabrics to create your new grocery bag; Undriving Ballard, pledge to reduce your car use and receive an official Undriver License and free Metro bus passes; Home Energy Center; Free School Learning Stations, Day long demos and training in useful skills for all ages; Eat Local Now! Learn more about the local food system, canning and cheese making; Urban Farm Zone, learn how to produce your own food in the city; Transportation Row; RE-cycled Art Station, and so much more.  Attendance at the festival is free and open to anyone.  Bring the family and stop by the Chinook Book booth for your chance to win!
September 27-28, 11am-5pm daily
Ballard Commons Park, Seattle

Play, Eat: Issaquah Salmon Days
Welcome to our “whirled” of fish, fun and festivities!
Join the fun this October at the Northwest’s most-loved, award-winning community event! The salmon are returning to our lakes, streams and our historic, downtown hatchery! The Issaquah Salmon Days Festival is 39 years old and we're celebrating with special fishy attractions: the Grande Parade, Foods of the Whirled, “whirled-class” arts & crafts, whirling live entertainment, whirledly-wild Field of Fun for kids of all ages, and a whirl of sporting attractions. Free Admission.
October 4-5, 10am-6pm daily
Historic Downtown, Issaquah