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Cheers: To local produce. Several recent articles remind us of our area’s wondrous bounty. While much of Joe’s Place Farms has closed in east Vancouver, family members are keeping parts of it running. Peach trees remain, and the U-pick strawberry fields opened for business this week. Meanwhile, the Salmon Creek Farmers’ Market, Camas Farmer’s Market and Ridgefield Farmers Market are kicking off their 2021 seasons, joining the Vancouver Farmers Market in offering locally sourced food.
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This panel conversation will include Jay Julius, former Chairman, Lummi Nation; Debra Giles, Orca scientist at UW Center for Conservation Biology and Science Director of Wild Orca and Jason Colby, Chairman of the History Department at University of Victoria and author of Orca.
The event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company, Mountaineers Books and The Seattle Times. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation. This event will be recorded for SPL’s YouTube Channel.
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Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home journalist Lynda V. Mapes explores the natural history of the orca and the unique challenges for survival of the Southern Resident group that frequents Puget Sound. These whales are among the most urban in the world, a focus of researchers, tourists, and politicians alike. Once referred to as “blackfish” and still known as “killer whales,” orcas were for generations regarded as vermin to
Turning Trash to Natural Gas: Utilities Fight for Their Future Amid Climate Change
A giant landfill in Washington state is producing natural gas from decaying trash. The gas industry is promoting such projects to fend off legislative attempts to spur greater electrification of buildings.
Hal Bernton, Seattle Times
March 4, 2021
Each day more than 12 million pounds of garbage is dumped, spread, compacted and finally covered with a layer of dirt at the Klickitat County landfill owned by Republic Services. It sits on a plateau above the Columbia River in southern Washington. Credit: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times
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A shame revealed: that time The Chronicle tried to kill the cable cars
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A new San Francisco Muni bus next to a cable car in 1947, the year the city considered closing the Powell Street line.Bill Young / The Chronicle 1947
It’s a strange sensation as a journalist, picking a side in a debate, forming a self-righteous (and not particularly controversial) stand and then conducting further research only to realize … that you were the villain in this movie all along.
That was the feeling I had yesterday, upon learning that The Chronicle, your compass for living in the city and my beloved employer of 21 years, once tried to hasten the extinction of the cable car system. (The cable cars have been sidelined for nearly a year during the current pandemic, and news broke last week that a reopening may be far in the future.)