While it does comes down to money, it’s about so much more than that. It’s about watching people from all over Island County and beyond, work together to save this giant piece of land. You cannot walk into a local store, cafe, or lumberyard without seeing donation jars with “Save the Forest Now” buttons and postcards on them. Hikers, joggers, birders, photographers, horseback riders, and other groups lead talks and rides through the property. Even small schoolchildren are not spared, helping raise funds and teaching people about why we need to Save the Forest Now [...]
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Whidbey Camano Land Trust launches ambitious campaign to save largest parcel of forest land on Whidbey Island by Sherrye Wyatt They say bold moves make history. After a 25-year legacy of successfully pioneering the protection of natural places, working farmlands, and other significant lands, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust is about to make history once more. The [...] It is so large at six acres that you never feel as if you are on an actual roof, and therein is the real beauty of it. Now in its second year of growth, the illusion is so surreal in an urban environment that it’s easy to disregard what lies beneath the top layer. [...] Last Thursday, a panel of business leaders spoke at Antioch University to a full room of entrepreneurs, students, faculty and members of the business community. Each gave a great presentation on how their company is working to create social and environmental benefits through innovative practices. [...] Harry Case has lovingly managed his 176 acre forest for over 60 years and has now permanently protected it for future generations. At the end of 2008, he donated a conservation easement on this land. Located near to both Putney Woods and Saratoga Woods, this forest boasts over five million board feet of timber. The conservation easement protects this forest from being clear-cut and developed into 35 homes. [...] Car Wash Enterprises, Inc. dba Brown Bear Car Wash has also instituted a charity car wash program. The program provides non-profit groups an environmentally-safe alternative to driveway and parking lot car washing, as well as an effective method for fundraising. [...] …using some of what I learned from our forest stewardship class, I began to clean up parts of our forest, limbing up the large hemlocks, spruces, and firs to create flyways for birds. We got what we set out to do. The unfortunate part that I sort of forgot about, was that we had in effect created the perfect hunting grounds for owls, eagles, and hawks…. [...] By Steve Jaasund
Since that time I have spent nearly forty years researching, designing, installing, operating and selling air emission control systems for industrial operations—many of them very much like the polluting factories that so impressed me on that hot summer afternoon. Continue reading Four Decades into Earth Day—An Engineer’s Perspective |
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In July, 1968 I was driving north over the Raritan River on the Garden State Parkway when I decided that my work toward a degree in Chemical Engineering could be best utilized in doing something to clean up our environment. At the time, the Raritan River was a literal sewer and the air above it was choking me so badly I was forced to roll the windows up—a real sacrifice in the middle of a New Jersey summer.