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
OPALCO candidates announced
Vote in OPALCO's election! Voters eligible to win prizes! ||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| The OPALCO election opens March 5 th and the Co-op will be hosting a Candidate
WWU receives grant to update and expand Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report
||| FROM WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ||| New research led by Dr. Aquila Flower will add climate change and landscape change indicators to a collaborative report on trends in the transboundary Salish Sea ecosystem. Climate change
A climate ad that reached millions
Science Moms’ Super Bowl ad, why extreme heat worsens diabetes, & three S’s of climate action ||| FROM TALKING CLIMATE ||| If you tuned in to the Super Bowl this year, you might have seen
Climate COMPASS | Islanders invited to shape San Juan County’s climate future
||| FROM CHOM GREACEN and FAITH VAN DE PUTTE for THE MADRONA INSTITUTE ||| Join fellow islanders on Saturday March 8th from 3-5PM at the Emmanuel Episcopal Parish Hall for COMPASS (Comprehensive Plan Outreach for
It’s a girl! Researchers confirm newest Southern Resident J Pod calf is female
||| FROM KOMO-TV SEATTLE ||| The newest member in the J Pod of the Southern Resident killer whales, calf J62, has been confirmed as a female by the Center for Whale Research. A team was sent
OPALCO meets with County Council: Energy supply will not meet demand
What’s our energy future going to be? ||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| The OPALCO team attended and presented at the San Juan County Council meeting on February 10. The
Senator Murray on Trump indiscriminately firing workers at Hanford and Bonneville Power Administration
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF SENATOR PATTY MURRAY ||| Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump
Trump and Musk are playing ‘Russian roulette’ with the Northwest power grid
||| FROM LATITUDE MEDIA ||| The Trump administration’s layoff spree at the Department of Energy is now hitting federal workers who keep the power grids running, posing serious reliability issues for large swaths of the country. Power
breaking news | CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMING FOR OUR CHOCOLATE!!
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's chocolate supply, hitting harvests and likely further stoking record prices, researchers said
Scientists have a new explanation for the last two years of record heat
Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop. ||| FROM WASHINGTON POST ||| For the past few years, scientists have watched, aghast, as global
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
Summary Layoffs hit nuclear offices in security and Cold War cleanup Some NNSA firings were rescinded, essentials can stay -source Loan Programs Office loses 45 workers, grid office 18 DOE has about 14,000 employees, 95,000
Last surviving female orca at Loro Parque is pregnant; Cycle of captivity continues
||| FROM WORLD ANIMAL NEWS ||| The announcement of Morgan’s pregnancy, the last surviving orca at Loro Parque in Spain, serves as a poignant and tragic reminder of the harsh realities faced by orcas in
Letter to Editor | When will lights go out?
||| FROM TOM OWENS ||| San Juan County is literally at the end of the road for our electric energy supplies. Our connection to mainland energy resources is aging and our peak loads are approaching
Guest Opinion | OPALCO has rung the bell
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| Foster Hildreth, CEO of OPALCO, Vince Dauciunas, chair of its board, and Jay Kimball, consultant, appeared before our County Council in a work session on February 10, 2025, and alerted
Newly released PBS documentary features local scientist
||| FROM CONOR AGNEW for THE WHALE MUSEUM ||| A newly released PBS documentary follows the work of a team of Antarctic researchers, including The Whale Museum’s Research Director Jessica Farrer. “Expedition Killer Whale” documents
