This is part 1 of a two-part article. View part 2 here. To all the dystopian gloom and doomers out there. Things can turn out OK. That’s the message of Rob Hopkins’ book, “From What Is to What If -Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want.”…
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This is part 2 of a two-part article. View part 1 here. There are SO many What if questions we can ask. What if residential streets could be play streets? What if there were food forests in every neighborhood? What if our public buildings were powered by renewable energy? What…
The Tree Ambassador Project of Restoring Earth Connection has completed a 5-month project canvas of the neighborhoods of Olympia to find its largest trees. This was a project sponsored by the City of Olympia’s Inspire Grant. Volunteer “Ambassadors” shared with neighbors a handout listing the many benefits of their trees:…
The American farmer is a very rare being; threatened for sure, but on the verge of going extinct. Less than one percent of the population is now engaged in farming. This is not just tragic, it is frightening and dangerous. As of 15 years ago the average age of…
I appealed two stormwater discharge permits to the Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB). Stormwater permits are supposed to limit the amount of pollution that drains into lakes, rivers and marine waters. I became concerned when I saw how Oregon Spotted Frog egg masses would dry out and kill thousands of…
Green Amendments are a monumental step forward for nature, but they are different than rights of nature in that they focus on the rights of citizens to a healthy thriving environment rather than giving the environment its own right to exist and thrive. Green Amendments tend to focus on the…
AR6, the Sixth Assessment Report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was released on March 20, 2023. Forster, P. M., Smith, C., Walsh, T., Lamb, W. F., Lamboll, R., Cassou, C., Hauser, M., Hausfather, Z., Lee, J.-Y., Palmer, M. D., von Schuckmann, K., Slangen, A. B. A., Szopa,…
There has been a lot of recent talk about the level of government debt. The City of Olympia had a 2024 debt of $85 million. Governor Ferguson inherited a Washington State debt estimated at $13 billion. And the One Big Beautiful Bill will balloon the federal debt (currently $37 trillion)…
The following infographics were obtained from The Poster Project, “an all volunteer group of concerned citizens who are researching, fact-checking and designing these graphics. The information they have gathered is from “non-partisan, publicly available data sources” and includes a hyperlink to a page listing the sources for the graphic’s content.…
Originally Published by PeaceVoice Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well. Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations. This largesse is facilitated…
Originally Published by PeaceVoice After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in Florida. Dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, it’s nothing more than a collection of tents…
Originally Published by PeaceVoice Why are we still screwing around? I mean, come on, it’s time to bite the bullet and get ‘er done! Why are we spending so much time and money on rounding up immigrants, then more money on shipping them overseas and paying other countries to jail…
The following photos are from the No Kings rally at the Olympia State Capitol on June 14th. Photographs are by LionKats unless otherwise noted.
Sign Waving Rally – Park at the Park&Ride at Martin Way, I-5 exit 109. We will sign wave along Martin Way – July 17, 5-7pm – Sign wave about any issues that are troubling you as part of the Good Trouble Lives On national day of nonviolent action. Organized by…