Tran­si­tion San Juan Island’s Waste Reduc­tion group shares today’s habit shift inspi­ra­tion from the glob­al Plas­tic Free July cam­paign. What’s Your Waste? There’s a lot of use­ful infor­ma­tion that can come from tak­ing a hard look at what you’re throw­ing away on a dai­ly or week­ly basis. Start by tak­ing note of the low-hang­ing fruit —  Con­tin­ue Reading

The orga­niz­ers of the Sum­mer Film Series at San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre send along a pre­view of this week’s film. The show­ing starts at 7 p.m. Admis­sion is pay-what-you-can. For this sea­son only, fresh pop­corn is avail­able for free. Tel Aviv on Fire Dra­mat­ic com­e­dy, not rat­ed Run time: 1 hour, 40 min­utes Hid­den with­in this almost far­ci­cal  Con­tin­ue Reading

Tran­si­tion San Juan Island’s Waste Reduc­tion group shares today’s habit shift inspi­ra­tion from the glob­al Plas­tic Free July cam­paign. Plas­tic Free Den­tal Care A large amount of plas­tic waste enter­ing into our nat­ur­al sur­round­ings and water­ways are from den­tal care prod­ucts: floss con­tain­ers, floss, floss sticks and plas­tic tooth­brush­es. Here they will stay for­ev­er and  Con­tin­ue Reading

Tran­si­tion San Juan Island’s Waste Reduc­tion group shares today’s habit shift inspi­ra­tion from the glob­al Plas­tic Free July cam­paign. Bath­room Audit Plas­tic bot­tles and con­tain­ers hide in all cor­ners of the bath­room and they are also some of the eas­i­est to elim­i­nate. There are many sim­ple solu­tions for the bath­room that will not only reduce  Con­tin­ue Reading

Here’s the adopt­able ani­mal of the week from the Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor — Sable, a 45-pound pharaoh hound mix. Sable is not just your every­day dog; she’s kind of like your “girl next door” type, but in the body of an ath­let­ic super­mod­el — a com­plete pack­age. This ‘Sporty Spice’ may be slen­der,  Con­tin­ue Reading

Tran­si­tion San Juan Island’s Waste Reduc­tion group shares today’s habit shift inspi­ra­tion from the glob­al Plas­tic Free July cam­paign. At the Bak­ery Unfor­tu­nate­ly, bread, rolls, and oth­er baked goods often come in plas­tic. You can avoid sin­­gle-use pack­ag­ing by shop­ping at a local bak­ery and opt­ing to car­ry your baked goods out with­out a plas­tic  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan Island Nation­al His­toric Park shares good news about the return of their Encamp­ment event. Encamp­ment, San Juan Island Nation­al His­toric Park’s annu­al pop­u­lar liv­ing his­to­ry week­end, is back this year after a three-year hia­tus. Join us Aug. 6 and 7 at the Eng­lish Camp Parade Ground for a glimpse of the past as liv­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Tran­si­tion San Juan Island’s Waste Reduc­tion group shares today’s habit shift inspi­ra­tion from the glob­al Plas­tic Free July cam­paign. Plas­tic Free Events Cut down on the waste at your next event and pro­mote more sus­tain­able prac­tices by offer­ing reusable items. As the host of the event, you have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to mod­el sus­tain­able behav­ior by  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Con­ser­va­tion Land Bank Com­mis­sion will hold a reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day, July 15 at 8:30 a.m. Items up for dis­cus­sion or action at Fri­day’s meet­ing include: Gen­er­al pub­lic com­ments Chair and Com­mis­sion­ers report Coun­ty Coun­cil update – Chris­tine Min­ney Sec­ond quar­ter finan­cial report Director’s report Glen­wood Inn acqui­si­tion – state­ment from  Con­tin­ue Reading

The EDC sends along news about the newest pro­gram in their Tech Train­ing Accel­er­a­tor Ini­tia­tive. The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil will facil­i­tate a soft­ware devel­op­ment learn­ing cohort for youth as part of their Tech Train­ing Accel­er­a­tor Ini­tia­tive. This ini­tia­tive aims to train local work­ers into high-wage, skilled tech jobs, as well as serve  Con­tin­ue Reading