Seattle Community Solar is a different model for solar energy. Instead of putting solar on your own home (which requires home ownership, the right sunny location, and a fairly large upfront investment), Community Solar lets many people come together to build one larger solar array. At Seattle City Light, we choose locations that are a good fit for solar. The panels are in sunny locations, visible to the public, and on properties that bring other public benefit to our community. Participants benefit through economies of scale, better siting, and the opportunity to take part at a much lower entry level. Instead of paying many thousands of dollars for your own solar electric system, you can get financial benefits and support solar in our community for as little as $150. City Light has a Community Solar program with existing projects in Jefferson Park in South Seattle and the Seattle Aquarium. The next project will start construction and enrollment in the summer of 2014. The way it works is that City Light builds a solar array and then allows customers to enroll in the project by paying upfront to purchase energy from a portion of the city-owned solar modules. Customers will receive an annual credit through 2020 for the amount of electricity generated by their portion of the project.

Seattle Community Solar is a different model for solar energy. Instead of putting solar on your own home (which requires home ownership, the right sunny location, and a fairly large upfront investment), Community Solar lets many people come together to build one larger solar array. At Seattle City Light, we choose locations that are a good fit for solar. The panels are in sunny locations, visible to the public, and on properties that bring other public benefit to our community. Participants benefit through economies of scale, better siting, and the opportunity to take part at a much lower entry level. Instead of paying many thousands of dollars for your own solar electric system, you can get financial benefits and support solar in our community for as little as $150. City Light has a Community Solar program with existing projects in Jefferson Park in South Seattle and the Seattle Aquarium. The next project will start construction and enrollment in the summer of 2014. The way it works is that City Light builds a solar array and then allows customers to enroll in the project by paying upfront to purchase energy from a portion of the city-owned solar modules. Customers will receive an annual credit through 2020 for the amount of electricity generated by their portion of the project.

Infinite coldness in the hottest day!

We have stuff. Putting it places is awesome.

You can donate to FareStart at http://farestart.org/index.html The FareStart Mission: FareStart provides a community that transforms lives by empowering homeless and disadvantaged men, women, and families to achieve self-sufficiency through life skills, job training and employment in the food service industry. FareStart’s VISION We rebuild lives, reconnect families, and strengthen our diverse community. We experience the power of contributing, the gift of giving, and the joy of helping through preparing and serving meals to our community. We build a self-sustaining organization through businesses that provide hands-on experience for students, financial support for our program, and a place for our community to grow. We nourish our community by collaborating with our partners to put an end to homelessness, one human being at a time. We empower each individual to achieve his or her highest potential by restoring hope, giving respect, nurturing self-confidence, granting trust, and creating opportunity.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private, international association. The association is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to all other professions which might help in achieving its aims. All of its members agree to honor the following principles: MSF provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political convictions. MSF observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance and claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions. Members undertake to respect their professional code of ethics and maintain complete independence from all political, economic, or religious powers. As volunteers, members understand the risks and dangers of the missions they carry out and make no claim for themselves or their assigns for any form of compensation other than that which the association might be able to afford them.

http://www.nrdc.org/ The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places. We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment. We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations. We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

This is one of the places we will go to see elephants, giraffes, lions, etc. in the wild!

Sometimes we have a great harvest! Help us pickle it for eating later,

We already have a dutch oven, but a tripod would make it even better!

Taylor is the master hammock-stand builder, and after he created the triple-hammock swing, it's time to get a better hammock!

For fast and light backpacking where we don't have wood to burn. We've borrowed our friends and these little things work wonders!

This will help a number of projects we have planned and save us from constantly borrowing our friends tools.