Closets, Culture, and Cuisine

Another full day of sustainability. I started off by paying a visit to the California Closets showroom in Bellevue since we're still trying to find a good closet system for our remodel. I was somewhat dreading it because I figured we'd never find an affordable option for closets. Sure, you can get a cabinetmaker to do an amazing closet in sustainable wood but it would cost a fortune. Given the salience of the price topic during my KUOW Weekday discussion on Thursday, I figured I had to make a valiant effort on this one. To my pleasant surprise, California Closets now has a green option!!! How awesome is that. Well, at least a greenER option. They've partnered with Roseburg Particle Board to use Skyblend. Skyblend is made from 100% pre-consumer recycled material and doesn't contain urea formaldehyde which, as y ou might guess, is nasty stuff. Pretty darn cool actually.

I then spent most of the day at the 36th annual First Nations Powwow at UW. A lot more food for the soul. The drummers and dancers were amazing and the crafts set up around the pavilion were equally as impressive. I've gone to this powwow since I attended UW in the 90s and will continue going forward. Black Lodge singers, who I had just seen/heard on Wednesday drummed here as well...with their full family of 12 in the house, it was even MORE incredible than Wednesday's performance.

I ended the night by having dinner with Paul and good friend Kristen at Rovers, a very high-end French restaurant that specializes in sustainable, local, and seasonal food. Um...WOW! Absolutely amazing food, incredible service, and the fact that it was sustainable...priceless :-) which is good as the meal was on the expensive side, but very much worth every penny.