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 some  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 will dis­cuss their  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