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Evergreen August 2020 | Big Wins for Washington's Wild Places

July was a month of historic wins for public lands. On July 22, the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) passed Congress and by August 4 it was signed into law. It included two major components: fixing the National Parks maintenance backlog, and fully...

This month, the Trump administration released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Biological Opinion (BiOp) for the Snake and Columbia River salmon and steelhead. But this plan merely repeats the mistakes of the past and offers only...

On Friday, July 31 -- only one day before a moratorium on shutting off utilities was set to expire across Washington state --Gov. Jay Inslee signed a proclamation extending it a third time. That means that until at least October 15th, utilities are...

For years, we in Washington supported First Nations legal fees against the Trans Mountain pipeline in a fundraising effort called Pull Together. We organized events and had a blast building community while we worked to stop the project. Our...

Evergreen July 2020 | The Greatest Environmental Threat

People typically accept things as they are. Looking deeper, nearly everything around us has been set up where and how they are. Planners, politicians, and policies put them there and incentivized what followed—be it tourism, traffic jams, housing,...

The latest anniversary had me wondering: as a volunteer-led organization how have we remained dynamic and responsive for more than a century? How do we as change-makers, respond to the need for changing our work? I had a conversation with a longtime...

Terms like “white fragility” and “whiteness” may be new to you. So too, may be the acknowledgment of your own privilege and of institutionalized racism. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, there is now greater social pressure for white people...

When I first heard of the concept of reparations as a high school student, I used my immigrant status to avoid taking any responsibility for the racial inequalities that exist in the US. But, as I grew into my late 20s, and with help from anti-...