Sustainable Bainbridge

05/15/2026

Find out how you can be on the super duper Rotary Auction Green Team at our open house on Thursday, May 28, 6-7pm at BARN. You'll meet the heads of the Recycle Team, Cardboard and Box Team, Green Desk and Lawn of Opportunity. Our goal is to send as little as possible to the landfill. In the process, we serve the community and make Rotary money in avoided costs.

The Green Team volunteers July 5 through sale day on July 11.

05/13/2026

Just couldn't bear to throw that broken necklace away? Or that cool lamp with the faulty switch? Bring it to the Fix-it Fair at BARN on Saturday, June 6 between 10am-1pm (last item in at 12:30pm).
So that our fixers will know what to expect, please register here: https://www.create.bainbridgebarn.org/AssnFe/ev.asp?ID=5325806
(Those who register ahead of time get served first.)

We also need fixers for the categories below. Please email Heather at [email protected] if you can help.
Sustainable Bainbridge and BARN are co-hosting, and community members are volunteering to try to repair your non-functioning household items:
-clothing & textiles
-small appliances (including lamps and vacuums)
-jewelry
-small electronics
-small welding and woodworking repairs
-minor bike repairs
Bring up to two items. Make sure items are clean, and bring any relevant manuals or parts.

05/12/2026

The Kitsap County Public Works Solid Waste Division is hosting a free tire collection event on June 15 and 16, 2026, 2-6pm each day at the Kitsap Fairgrounds. This event is for households only; businesses and organizations should hire a licensed tire carrier to manage their waste tires.
Up to 15 tires per household.
More info here: https://www.kitsap.gov/pw/Pages/publicdisposalevents.aspx

05/04/2026

Come get back the yard waste you put at the curb now that North Mason Fiber has turned it into compost. This Saturday, May 16, 10am-1pm (or until they run out) at the Kitsap Fairgrounds, you can shovel up to 1/2 cu yd for yourself. More info here: https://www.kitsap.gov/pw/Pages/publicdisposalevents.aspx

05/03/2026

We had a great time at the Bainbridge Parks Spring Carnival today! We talked with tons of kids and adults about native and invasive plants and the importance of having more of the former and less of the latter. Here’s a pic of w**d warriors founding mother Jeannette Franks playing our plant identification game with a young visitor.

05/02/2026

Join w**d warriors at BI Parks spring carnival this Saturday at Battle Point, where we’ll be hanging out with our favorite native plants and less favorite w**dy species! Here’s our native plant bouquet-ain’t it gorgeous? Come learn about them with us!

https://www.biparks.org/recreation/special-events/-fbclid-IwY2xjawRiPhtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR7Ga_PD35CexpKhmnE1n0IgzpkGGW0pIrYLfztwANlrAjIVPpMuGc83gWrLRQ_aem_pjQe0xc4bhQ9yWf7QErMdQ

04/21/2026

Happy Earth Day! Know that you are in good company with everything you do to protect our planet.

7 likes. "An Earth Day message"

04/11/2026

"Achieving net zero is this century’s Moonshot. The prize is minimising the severity of the worst climate consequences of global heating – leaving our children and future generations a sustainable “grand oasis” here on Earth."

https://theconversation.com/earthrise-to-earthset-how-the-planets-climate-has-changed-since-the-photo-that-inspired-the-environmental-movement-279818

04/09/2026

Who's in our watershed? Today Bainbridge Island Watershed Council headed out with our partners Aaron Jorgensen and Jo Verrelli with Wild Fish Conservancy to Mac's Dam Creek on the IslandWood campus to take environmental DNA (eDNA) samples. We are taking water samples that are passed through a filter and then read by a lab that can tell us about all kinds of things living in the watershed, including fish, amphibians, birds, mammals. eDNA is rapidly catching on as a great way to survey who is in the neighborhood in a non-invasive way. We're doing this work to understand the distribution of fish on this stream prior to the removal of fish passage barriers, so we can track whether barrier removal helps the fish!

02/11/2026

Need a repair? Bring it to BARN on Saturday, March 7, between 10-12:30. Go here, https://www.sustainablebainbridge.org/fix-it-fair-bainbridge-island/, to see what you can bring and how to come prepared.