Here’s a thought…
“The competition between Nature and the economy is deep and broad.
In the short term, the economy usually wins. In the long term …?”
BILL APPEL
Guest Opinion | Success in the climate change battle looks like this…
"…Flogging a very dead horse…" ||| FROM DANIEL GOTTLIEB ||| From Yahoo: “…Commodities strategists at Wall Street’s top investment banks expect 2026 and 2027 to be tough years for the oil industry. And that’s after
‘The Share Table’ collaboration cultivates healthy eating, community in San Juan County
The collaboration between San Juan County WSU Extension Master Gardeners, San Juan County Health & Community Services, and the Friday Harbor Food Bank, completed its inaugural season and served hundreds of community members. ||| FROM
OPALCO Board passes 2026 budget and rates
||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| The 2026 OPALCO annual budget was approved at the November 20 board meeting including changes to the rate structure and a ~6% rate increase
No Place Like Loam | Winter Garden: What my Grandfather’s war garden still teaches me – Part 2
||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYO-WOLF ||| Mom asks why I’m always up so early, out there in the wind, picking greens for a smoothie as if I’m feeding some phantom army. My
News Brief | A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete in the Dakotas
||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| Over the past three years, Standing Rock has installed chargers across the reservation as part of the Electric Nation project, a regional effort to create an intertribal charging
News Brief | Home prices on a warming planet
||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| “Homeowners don’t appreciate or don’t understand that we are living in a much riskier world than we were 25 years ago. And that risk? They have to pay
News Brief | New fishing closures, and whale deaths raise concerns on B.C.’s coast
||| FROM THE MARTLET, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ||| The death of a young humpback whale off B.C.’s coast is renewing attention on the growing human pressures on coastal waters. DFO has confirmed that the cause
News Brief | Drones are remaking marine mammal research
||| FROM KNOWABLE MAGAZINE ||| The rapid advancement of drone technology makes it difficult to predict what marine mammal research will look like in the future. Gathering snot is one of many ways that drones
San Juan County beaches reopen for recreational shellfish harvesting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Recreational shellfish harvesting of all species is open again to all San Juan County beaches, except for East Sound. This ends the closure of all beaches announced in
News Brief | Inside Economics | The reality of baby-bust economics
||| FROM THE ECONOMIST ||| When I was at the Jackson Hole gathering of the world’s central bankers this summer some simple arithmetic sent the jaws of many elite economists to the floor. Chad Jones
Center for Whale Research finds all three pods in Puget Sound
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Full Encounter Report ObservBegin: 09:22 AM ObservEnd: 03:05 PM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit Other Observers: Monika Wieland Shields, Jason Shields, Taylor Redmond, Florian Granier, Vanessa Pirtle
Avian flu season | Message from WDFW and Kwiaht
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| It’s that time of year when the risk of avian flu in migrating geese, ducks and other waterfowl is greatest. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and
Is this imposter syndrome?
||| FROM ISLAND STEWARDS ||| Looking at the population of San Juan County, it’s easy to wonder how such a tiny place—just 0.000212% of the world’s population—expects to make even the smallest dent in the
News Brief | WA and Alaska halibut fishing crews see troubling signs
||| FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES ||| The fishing has become a lot tougher, and, last year, a fall fishing trip in the Bering Sea was an outright disaster. Halibut now appear to be at, or
News Brief | How snowy could it be this winter?
||| FROM WASHINGTON POST ||| No, the colors of the woolly bear caterpillar you saw in your backyard this fall can’t tell you if it’s going to be a snowy winter. The ingredients needed to
