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 | Letter to Council in support of Lincoln Bormann
||| FROM SANDI FRIEL for SJC CONSERVATION LAND BANK COMMISSION ||| We Commissioners wish to express our unanimous support of Lincoln Bormann continuing as Director of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank. Public support
State agencies reach major benchmark in Washington’s transition to clean energy
UTC and Commerce collaborate to adopt new rules for electric utilities related to energy storage systems, standards and more ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| LACEY, Wash. – The Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC)
Seaweed helps Maine lobstermen ride the storm of climate change
||| FROM THE WASHINGTON POST ||| FALMOUTH, Maine — It’s harvest time on Casco Bay. Briana Warner is dressed for this late spring morning in padded rubber overalls, raincoat, rubber boots and neon yellow gloves
Mackaye Harbor shoreline restoration project about to be underway
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is pleased to announce the beginning of the Mackaye Harbor Boat Ramp and Shoreline Restoration Project. The month of work is slated to remove all
Statement from Inslee regarding agreement on climate package in U.S. Senate
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee [last night] issued the following statement regarding news that Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C. have reached agreement on an Inflation Reduction Act that
Statement on Glenwood Inn acquisition from San Juan Preservation Trust
||| FROM CRAIG CANINE for SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ||| We’re aware that the Glenwood Inn/North Shore Conservation Easement acquisition has become a subject of public discussion and confusion, especially on Orcas Island. We can’t
Glimmers: Some hope for a solution for Northwest dams?
||| FROM POST ALLEY ||| AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER Earthshaking! Hard to believe! Transformational! Dams are bad for salmon! Who would have guessed? So we learn from a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
San Juan County celebrates completion of first solar project
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is proud to announce the completion of its first solar project. The public is invited to join County officials and community members in a celebration
How are we doing with ‘plastic free’ proclamation?
||| FROM KATIE FLEMING for DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ||| Did you know the San Juan County Council proclaimed July as “plastic free”? The proclamation recognized the pressing issues around plastic waste, including the fact
Master Gardeners return to Driftwood for ailing plant advice
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY for SJC MASTER GARDENERS ||| Prepare for July 20th! Bring your plant problems to Driftwood Nursery in Eastsound from 11am - 1 pm on July 20th, so the Master Gardeners of
COASST beached bird and marine debris training coming to Mount Vernon
||| FROM THE COASTAL OBSERVATION AND SEABIRD SURVEY TEAM ||| Join the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) and help make a difference for the environment! COASST participants collect data on beach-cast carcasses of
It’s World Orca Day – A celebration of the species
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| The Center for Whale Research joins the world in celebrating all Orca ecotypes worldwide. We can all do our part to make the planet safer and more habitable
We have never ever seen this before — never ever
||| FROM NASA ||| NASA today released this first image from the new James Webb Space Telescope. Words will not suffice...
It’s official: CWR visits, photographs K Pod’s new baby
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| On July 9, we met the newest member of K Pod, K45. We received word that Southern Resident orcas were inbound from the west side of Vancouver Island,
Guest Opinion | Open letter on breaching Snake River dams
||| FROM JANET ALDERTON ||| Governor Inslee and Senator Murray, Thank-you for caring about the struggling Southern Resident Killer Whales. Thank you for your draft report about the issues surrounding breaching of the four Lower
