Local / Regional News May 28, 10am: Tell The Clallam County Commissioners to support the City of Port Angeles’ Elwha Watershed Protection Project under the Trust Land Transfer (TLT) program! On May 28, the County Commissioners will vote on a letter about the City’s TLT. Agenda with Zoom link. More info: Elizabeth Dunne: edunne@earthlaw.org Elwha …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/12/24
Local / Regional News Before May 15, support the Elwha Watershed Protection Project Trust-- The City of Port Angeles has submitted an application under DNR’s Trust Land Transfer Program to transfer 3,089 acres of state forest lands into protected status. Community support is a key. Comments accepted through May 15. Use this link. Living on …
Olympic Climate Action supports the City of Port Angeles’s “Elwha Watershed Protection Project”.
Forest Service: your “greatest good” goal right now should be to protect our older forests
By Jim Furnish and René Voss, The Missoulian Kai deSilva --Pixabay In the early 20th century, Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service wrote what is now considered the agency’s mission statement: Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, prioritize “the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.” This approach …
Is Green Growth Possible?
We can do this...if we want... In this podcast, Ezra Klein interviews Hannah Ritchie, a Scottish data scientist and author of Not the End of the World, about sustainability in relation to climate change, energy, food and agriculture, biodiversity, air pollution, deforestation, and public health. Bottom line: we can now decouple our economies from heating …
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