By Sound News reporter Emilia Ptak
It’s a crisp and unusually sunny February morning at Meig’s Park. An eclectic bunch has gathered –high school students, property-owners, a group of young kids from the home school network, and plant experts- to tackle the pesky weeds dilemma afflicting Bainbridge Island.
Weed Warriors, a loose coalition of Bainbridge [...]
By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Imagine the alarm if all of your plastic bags united together and emerged from the depths of your kitchen drawer to form one super bag. For many Puget Sound residents this haunting thought has already become a reality.
A shocking howl rang out across the steps of the Capitol as [...]
By Sound News reporter Jeanne Fulcher
Anyone who has ever eaten crab so fresh that it is boiled in salt water within an hour of being caught will tell you there’s nothing like it. Feasts of crab like this have been a tradition that brings my family together – grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and sisters. [...]
By Sound News reporter Emilia Ptak
Rainy Seattle, nestled between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, enjoys an abundance of the wet stuff. Being surrounded by water and having it come down on us throughout the year is misleading in thinking that general availability and accessibility is the norm. The collective mindset reflects a standard, a high [...]
By Sound News Reporter Maggie Murdoch
King County sees the climate and economic crises we now face in the holistic sense of the word crisis. While linguists debate the truth behind the common saying that the Chinese character for crisis is made up of the characters for danger and opportunity, King County’s Director of Strategic Planning [...]
By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Hacking through relentless blackberry and scotchbroom to plant native species isn’t normally the most enjoyable experience.
Nevertheless, I hear laughter ring out through the weeds. “At least 8 years!” Digging a piece of Styrofoam out of the ground and tossing it into a pile, Brian Sutter enthusiastically assigns an age [...]
By Sound News reporter Tye Rogerson
The local, organic Seattleite shoppers: You’ll never learn all their names. But their faces all topped with an array of pepper, garlic and herb colored hair-all echo the preferred alternative, that there is something better than the sliding-door Safeway across the street. And today is no different at the University [...]
By Sound News Reporter Emilia Ptak
“Tug on anything and you will find it connected to everything else.” The message of interrelatedness, adopted from the writings of the naturalist John Muir, welcomes you upon entering the expansive lodge at the outdoor learning center IslandWood. Written in a flowing cursive that weaves around a vast, steal, infinity [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
Three movies, three plots, three sets of characters, but one animal: the orca whale. A horror movie, an educational movie, and a children’s film all star an orca whale but cast the creature in very different lights. Hollywood has captured in bits and pieces the history between humans and [...]
By Sound News reporter Sarah Jeglum
Stephanie Dalman’s parents have been living near Lake Mills, the reservoir behind the Glines Canyon Dam, since before she was born. In less than three years, however, their beloved lakefront could be gone, and instead be the running riverbed it was almost 100 years ago.
The reservoir is actually part of [...]
