The Necessity of “Oil & Water,” a Local Documentary
Oil & Water is a documentary playing this weekend at the Social Justice Film Festival (7pm at the Northwest Film Forum
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Environment
Woodland Park Zoo to host Fecal Fest for Fall 2014; burns local blogger on Twitter
For those of us that fall under the “local media” umbrella, the best press releases that fill up our in-boxes
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Yoram Bauman writes the book graphic novel on climate change
Yoram Bauman is something of a favorite around SunBreak HQ. He’s a PhD environmental economist and calls himself “the world’s
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Zoo-Born Western Pond Turtles Making a Washington Comeback
Now, after two decades, there may be as many as 1,500 western pond turtles at six managed habitats in Klickitat, Skamania, Pierce, and Mason counties. Researchers believe the turtles’ brush with extinction was due to loss of healthy habitat, disease, and the appeal that baby turtles hold for ravenous, non-native bullfrogs.
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Saturday, Alki is Going on a Beach Cleanse
The Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project would like to invite you to join them this Saturday at Alki Beach for a two-hour clean-up, from 10 a.m. to noon. KOMO 4’s predicting partly cloudy and a high of 77.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Waterfront
In these illustrations, the stitch to fix the scar is about as wide as the waterfront itself, and wider at parts. Tourists will share those remarkably spacious lanes with freight traffic delivering goods to the city.
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