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Backgrounder on the Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan
The Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan (https://www.trpc.org/909/Thurston-Climate-Mitigation-Plan) outlines specific steps to reduce greenhouse emissions by 85% by 2050, when our children and grandchildren will be facing the effects of our efforts
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A New Year’s Challenge: Resolve to Go Greener! Revisited
Kim Adelson 2020 will long be remembered as “the year of COVID-19”. As I am writing this article, almost 300,000 Americans have died from the virus; to put this in
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Facing Climate Change’s Impacts On Birds
By Cindy Levy LMHC, TEP, CHT The news from Audubon’s 2019 Survival by Degrees report is grim: 64% of North American bird species – 389 of 604 – are at
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All Food is Expensive
By Kim Adelson When I first moved to New Zealand, I was continually shocked at the price of food. Tomatoes could run $7-8 a pound and a whole chicken might
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A New Year’s Challenge: Resolve to Go Greener!
by Kim Adelson – It’s New Year’s resolution time! And I am betting that if you are reading this article you care about our environment. There are many ways most
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How Climate Change will Affect Shorebirds
By Kim Adelson Walking along the coast in Western Washington – along estuaries or on the beach – you can potentially spot about 70-80 species of birds. (This does not