By Rick Edwards, on the board of advisors for Sustainable Wenatchee With so many changes happening in the last several years on the...

Guest blog by Madelyn Schwilke “Zero waste” grocery shopping is sometimes hard to achieve, and can feel impossible when almost every food...

By Jenny Montgomery, SW board secretary Today our feeds are flooded with perfectly curated and targeted mass marketing ads. Everything...

I first met Elsa through our EcoChallenge.org discussion group, reading through Seeing Systems last summer and fall. She joined our group...

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...

By Jana Fischback City of Wenatchee residents who are Waste Management customers recently joined the rest of the area in being able to...

By Jana Fischback {A different version of this blog was published in the Wenatchee World.] Sometimes my work in sustainability gives me...

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

By Betsy Dudash, SW board president Whenever someone offers me a drink of unfiltered tap water, I flinch just a little. My tongue still...

As you might remember, Betsy shared options for "Going, sustainably" in a blog post last February. That was before the infamous TP...

By Jana Fischback This year, instead of hosting just one volunteer opportunity on Make a Difference Day, October 24th, we at Sustainable...

This is a big day for Sustainable Wenatchee! Today, October 30th, is our "3rd birthday." Three years ago today, Sustainable Wenatchee was...

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...

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...

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...

We've written about food waste before - check out Joan Qazi's blog post, "Food Waste > Wasted Food" - but here, board president Betsy...

"A garden… is a solution that leads to other solutions,” wrote writer and environmental activist, Wendell Berry in his book The Gift of...

By Jana Fischback with help from Anne Theisen Two steps forward, one step back. The movement away from single-use plastic items was...

By Betsy Dudash, Sustainable Wenatchee board member Last year, in a happy coincidence, three of my friends got electric vehicles. So,...

By Joan Qazi, board member While most people think about the environment when it comes to sustainability, the actual definition of...