Transition San Juan Island’s Waste Reduction group shares today’s habit shift inspiration from the global Plastic Free July campaign. Repurpose It’s only single-use if you use it once. With a repurpose mindset, there’s so much more life in our daily items then we think. That yogurt that came in a glass jar is perfect for  Continue Reading

Transition San Juan Island’s Waste Reduction group shares today’s habit shift inspiration from the global Plastic Free July campaign. Re-Re-Re-Use Use up everything you’ve got, whether it’s “sustainable” or not. It can be tempting to replace all of your daily use items with its plastic free counterpart. Using and reusing the stuff you have until  Continue Reading

The County sends along a request for volunteers in advance of the publishing of the voter’s guide for the November general election. San Juan County is seeking volunteers to create supporting and opposing statements regarding a proposed road levy to place in the voter’s guide for the November general election. The arguments will be published  Continue Reading

Transition San Juan Island’s Waste Reduction group shares today’s habit shift inspiration from the global Plastic Free July campaign. Reduce Reducing dependency on single-use products that we’re in the habit of buying can feel like hard work. And yet, focusing on how satisfying it feels when we do make a shift in the right direction  Continue Reading

Here’s the adoptable animal of the week from the Animal Protection Society of Friday Harbor — Grantham, a 30-pound (and growing) mystery mix. Grantham has the nose of a Hound, the paws of a Boxer, and the gentle disposition of a Lab. Quite the superior mix if we do say so ourselves. He may have  Continue Reading

San Juan County’s Department of Health and Community Services sends along news about their early learning garden program. This summer, the Slow Food Land and Sea Garden on San Juan and Turtleback Farm on Orcas, in partnership with the San Juan County SNAP-Ed program, will be hosting an early learning garden program for preschool-aged children.  Continue Reading

Alchemy Art Center shares news about three free arts events taking place over the next two weeks. Friday, July 22 4-5 p.m., The Dome, 1255 Wold Rd Alchemy is hosting an artist talk by local and international collaborators Nikyta Palmisani, Juniper Blomberg, Anya Gleizer, and Pablo Fernández Velasco, all visiting from Lopez Island. This group  Continue Reading

Transition San Juan Island’s Waste Reduction group shares today’s habit shift inspiration from the global Plastic Free July campaign. Refuse! Refuse! Refuse! Breaking and making habits are no small feat. Keeping things simple so you can successfully build on repetition is key. The simplest way forward is to start refusing single-use plastics. For example, keeping  Continue Reading

The Center for Whale Research has published a pair of reports about their recent encounters with the J, K, and L pods of Southern Resident killer whales in Boundary Pass and Haro Strait. Read the July 11 report and the July 12 report.

OPALCO sends along an update about one of their education initiatives. More than 65 students representing electric co-ops from Alaska to Nevada attended the 2022 Co-op Youth Rally at the College of Idaho in Caldwell from July 11 through 16. The week-long event is a leadership camp and scholarship program for rural electric cooperatives and  Continue Reading