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2024
April 3rd:
♦ Zoom:
March 6th:
♦ Zoom: Kicking Gas! ♦ Protect Forest Stilly Revisited ♦ Stop Industrial-scale Biomass Air Pollution ♦ Everett Daily Herald's environmental reporting ♦ Nominations for Earth Day Recognitions ♦ Audubon Shares Studies of Bird Migration ♦ Snake River Dinner Hour ♦ Electrify Everything Information Series ♦ Whidbey Guided Walk and Talk Series ♦ Birding Walk near Conway ♦ Legislative Report ♦ Edmonds Marsh Estuary Grant Award ♦ Puget Sound Estuaries Restoration Plan ♦ Green Snohomish River Road Cleanup ♦ Become A Sound Water Steward ♦ Northwest Artists Against Extinction
February 7th:
♦ Zoom: Our State and Local Campaigns and Leaders ♦ Legislative Action ♦ Protect Forests ♦ Edmonds Marsh Cleanup DOE Meeting ♦ Snake River DINNER HOUR ♦ Sea Level Rise Program from LWV ♦ Electrify Everything In Your Home 101 ♦ Recycle Your Styrofoam ♦ Snow Goose & Birding Festival ♦ Forest Protection Forum Recording ♦ Test for Salmon Killing Chemical 6PPD-quinone ♦ Coon Creek Restoration Planting
January 3rd:
♦ Zoom: Accelerating to Net Zero ♦ Re-WRAP Act Lobby Day ♦ Snake River Dams Must Go ♦ Strategy Meeting to Protect Mature Forests ♦ Assist Environmental Legislation ♦ Sea Level Rise and Edmonds' Future ♦ Power Talks: All About Microgrids ♦ Electrify Everything in Your Home ♦ Green Amendment for Washington State ♦ Center for Responsible Forestry vs Dept. of Natural Resources ♦ Trees Planted in Shoreline ♦ Everett Green Schools Work Group ♦ Volunteer
2023
December 6th:
♦ Zoom: Volunteer Recognition Party! ♦ GTN Xpress pipeline ♦ Wild Holiday Trees ♦ Turn Out Lights for Birds ♦ Edmonds Marsh Cleanup ♦ Audubon Christmas Bird Count ♦ Electrify Everything In Your Home Series ♦ Sierra Club Endorsements ♦ Outings Report ♦ KSER ♦ Urban Tree Canopy Policy ♦ Green Snohomish River Cleanup ♦ Mason Bees Thriving at Northwest Stream Center
November 1st:
♦ Zoom: 2024 State Legislative Priorities ♦ Quilceda Creek Restoration ♦ Stormwater in Edmonds ♦ Audubon Birding ♦ Native Plants for Wildlife ♦ Snohomish County Comp Plan Update ♦ Native Plant Give-Away ♦ Adopt a Stream Foundation - Musical Mountaineers ♦ Sierra Club National Director, Ben Jealous ♦ Pilchuck Audubon Director Brian Zinke ♦ Earth Sanctuary Nature Reserve with Sculpture Garden ♦ General Elections ♦Sno-Isle Elections ♦ Urban Tree Canopy ♦ Snohomish County Climate Advisory ♦ Climate Alliance of Snohomish County ♦ Sno-Isle 2023 Accomplishments
October 4th:
♦ Zoom: Electrify Everything in Your Home! by Nancy Johnson ♦ Urban Tree Canopy Policy ♦ Climate Friendly Building Codes ♦ GTN Xpress Methane Pipeline ♦ Feast in the Forest ♦ Snohomish Historic Tree Tour ♦ Audubon's Bird Friendly Communities Initiative ♦ All About Bats ♦ Covenant of the Salmon People ♦ Daily Herald Inside Look ♦ Sno-Isle Sierra Club Endorses Candidates ♦ Political Forums ♦ ASF Removes Trestle Blocking Salmon ♦ Roundtable on Future of Mature Forests ♦ EV Presentation Video ♦ Volunteer Opportunities
September 6th:
♦ Zoom: Electric Vehicles by Bill Trueit ♦ Snohomish County Environmental Impact Open House ♦ Local Comprehensive Plans ♦ Mature Forests in Snohomish County ♦ Repair Cafe ♦ Global Climate Change Course ♦ Wolves ♦ Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse ♦ Energy Fair ♦ 'Ridge Ender' Legacy Forest Walk ♦ Green Drinks ♦ Edmonds Stewards Marsh Walk ♦ Kayaking Through Climate Change ♦ Audubon Feast in the Forest ♦ Japanese Gulch Hike ♦ Rally to Save Legacy Forests ♦ Edmonds Marsh Booth at Edmonds Market ♦ Sno-Isle Group Leader Nominations ♦ Volunteer to Help Register Voters
August 7th:
♦ Zoom: Transportation by Wes Sewart ♦ Protect Legacy Forests ♦ Snohomish County Comprehensive Plan ♦ Forest Bathing ♦ Swifts Night Out ♦ Bird Fest ♦ Green Drinks ♦ Inflation Reduction Act Energy Programs ♦ Outings ♦ Elections ♦ Edmonds Marsh Estuary Restoration Work ♦ PAWS Wildlife Center ♦ Whidbey Ivy ♦ Kicking Gas Project ♦ WSU Sustainability Stewards
July 10th:
♦ Zoom: Picnic at the Northwest Stream Center ♦ Strategy to Protect Legacy Forests ♦ Help Save Edmonds Trees ♦ Green Drinks ♦ Sustainable Cooking Demonstrations ♦ Outings Leader Training ♦ Candidate Forums ♦ Green Snohomish
June 5th:
♦ Zoom: Tulalip Tribes' Aaron Jones on Climate Mitigation and Treaty Rights ♦ Stop Fracked Gas Pipeline Expansion ♦ Breach Snake River Dams to Save Salmon ♦ Save the Sultan Watershed from Logging ♦ The Truth About the Electric Highway ♦ Tony Angell and John Marzluff Talk: Crows, Ravens, and Marine Life ♦ Beware of "Biomass" Companies ♦ Outings Leaders’ Training ♦ Help With Candidate Endorsement Process ♦ Successful Protests by Whidbey Students ♦ Sno-Isle Leader Nominations
May 8th:
♦ Zoom: Outings: Connecting People with Nature ♦ Trust Land Transfer Bill Passed! ♦ Preserving Forests in Snohomish County ♦ The Electrified Home of the Future ♦ Snohomish Spring Tree Tours ♦ Chaos and Community Resilience ♦ Electrify Everything In Your Home ♦ ♦ Styrofoam Recycling ♦ Nature Talk with Tony Angell and John Marzluff ♦ Productive Legislative Session ♦ Kicking Gas: A Whidbey Success Story ♦ Drive Electric Earth Day Success ♦ Environmental and Social Justice Heroes ♦ Induction Cooking Demonstration at Edmonds Earth Fair ♦ Political Committee Volunteers ♦ Outreach Efforts ♦ Prioritizing Our Goals
April 10th:
♦ Zoom: Earth Week Environmental Recognitions ♦ Snohomish County Climate Planning ♦ Protecting Mature Forests ♦ Electric Vehicles at Earth Day Block Party ♦ Green Snohomish Fun on Earth Day ♦ Camano Island Library Sea Grant Speaker ♦ Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire Movie ♦ Native Pollinators ♦ Green Drinks Edmonds ♦ Edmonds Earth Fair ♦ Privilege, Poverty, and the Environment ♦ SnoPUD Recognized for Clean Energy ♦ Sno-King Water Watchers
March 6th:
♦ Zoom: Sound Waters U. and Advocating for Carbon Neutral Ports ♦ Trust Land Transfer Bill ♦ Nominations for Earth Day Recognition ♦ Everett Light Rail ♦ Urban Tree Canopy ♦ Railroad Expansion ♦ Carbon Dense Forests ♦ SnoPUD Power Talks ♦ Northwest Stream Center ♦ Rewiring America ♦ Ben Jealous ♦ Efficient Tree Planting ♦ Whidbey Camano Land Trust Work Parties
February 6th:
♦ Zoom: Legislative Priorities: Status and Actions ♦ Urban Tree Canopy Policy ♦ Environmental Priorities Coalition Lobby ♦ Legislative Updates ♦ Snohomish County Comprehensive Plan ♦ Help Island Transit Go Green ♦ Railroad Efficiency ♦ Great Backyard Bird Count ♦ Kicking Gas on Whidbey ♦ Green Drinks Comes to Edmonds ♦ Streamkeepers Projects ♦ Composting ♦ Pilchuck River Clean Up ♦ Snohomish County Planning Commission Opening
January 9th:
♦ Zoom: Tree Protection: Urban Canopies and Legacy Forests ♦ Sierra Club Legislative Priorities ♦ SnoCo Comprehensive Plan ♦ Green Amendment ♦ Bird Species on the Brink ♦ Kicking Gas - So. Whidbey ♦ Electric Vehicles Tipping Point ♦ Sound Waters University ♦ Audubon Classes ♦ Our Sacred Obligation Video ♦ WEAN Grant ♦ Electric Leaf Blowers Incentives ♦ Funding to Remove Fish Passage Barriers ♦ Volunteers Honored
2022
December 5th:
♦ Zoom: Volunteer Recognitions ♦ Audubon Bird Count ♦ Wildfire Misinformation ♦ Video: Conservation Volunteers in Action ♦ Reading Suggestions ♦ Video: The Future of Forests ♦ Video: Whidbey Environmental Activist Network sucesses ♦ ♦ EV Tax Credits ♦ Cooke Aquaculture Net Pens ♦ Heat Pumps Required for New Homes ♦ Edmonds Environmental Alliance ♦ Ebey's Trail System ♦ Snohomish County Board of Health opening
November 7th:
♦ Zoom: Conservation Volunteers in Action, Margie Van Cleve, state Sierra Club Conservation Chair ♦ Urban Tree Canopy Policy ♦ Save Our Legacy Forests ♦ Snake River Dams are Killing Salmon ♦ Whidbey Environmental Action Network ♦ NW Stream Center ♦ Airport Expansion ♦ Whidbey Students Meet With VP Harris ♦ Electric school bus grant to South Whidbey ♦ Court judge ruled that DNR must follow state EPA policy ♦ Edmonds Marsh Restoration ♦ Climate Alliance of Snohomish County ♦ Solar in US K-12 Schools ♦ Pilchuck River Cleanup ♦ Sno-Isle Group Executive Committee Election
October 10th:
♦ Zoom: Alex Craven, Sierra Club Campaign Rep ♦ Petition to Limit Toxic Pollution in Homes ♦ Snohomish River Floodplain Restoration ♦ Snohomish Fall Tree Tour ♦ Snohomish County Comprehensive Plan ♦ Zero Waste Washington Executive Director Heather Trim ♦ Lobby Team Training ♦ Edmonds Marsh Invasion ♦ Protecting Forest Carbon and Biodiversity ♦ Legacy Forest Visit ♦ Diesel School Buses ♦ Student's For The Future Walk-Out
September 5th:
♦ Zoom: U.S. Climate Alliance Executive Director Casey Katims ♦ ? New Airport in a Critical Waterfowl Habitat
♦ Climate Friendly Building Codes ♦ Breaching Snake River Dams ♦ Puget Sound Bird Fest ♦ Feast in the Forest with Pilchuck Audubon ♦ "Blow Out" at Oktoberfest ♦ Rights of Nature Movie ♦ Electric Vehicle Fair ♦ Movement to Outlaw Gas Leaf Blowers ♦ Volunteers' Work ♦ Leaders' Reflections
August 8th:
♦ Zoom: Toxics That Go Down The Drain Can End Up On Your Plate ♦ Rally to Save our Forests ♦ Snohomish County Comprehensive Plan ♦ State Clean Fuel Standards ♦ LWV Field Trip to Kruckeberg Gardens ♦ Swifts Night Out ♦ Everett Climate Action Plan ♦ Walking Ebey's Trails ♦ Low-Tide Beach Walks ♦ Logging Public Lands Is Not Required ♦ Navy Expansion of Jet Training ♦ Electric Vehicle Sales ♦ Transitioning Away from Gas Furnaces ♦ Transition to Electric ♦ Leader Nominations ♦ Beach Clean Up
July 11th:
♦ Climate Alliance of Snohomish County Picnic ♦ Salmon Recovery Action ♦ Movie: DamNation ♦ Building Healthy Communities ♦ United Student Leaders of Whidbey at Fair ♦ Wildfire in Our Forests ♦ Candidate Forum Recordings from LWV ♦ Clean Building Codes For Healthy Homes ♦ Audubon Birdathon ♦ Message from Our Chair, Nancy Johnson
June 6th:
♦ Zoom: Chad Hanson: "The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix” ♦ Amazon's Plastics Problem ♦ Two Independence Days ♦ Island Transit Monthly Ride With a Guide ♦ How Student Activists Are Making Chane ♦ Major Land Trust Acquisition on Whidbey ♦ Fifty-Nine Truckloads of River Trash ♦ Progress On 100% Clean Energy Schools ♦ Whidbey Students Lead Climate Action ♦ Edmonds Environmental Resources Portal ♦ Sierra Club Leader Nominations ♦ Farmers' Markets ♦ Snake River Dams Song
May 9th:
♦ Zoom: Sen. Patty Murray's State Director Shawn Bills ♦ Community Transit Survey ♦ Watershed Fun Fair ♦ Pesticides in Skykomish Watershed ♦ Birding With Pilchuck Audubon ♦ 350 Everett:Energy, the Environment & Everyday Life ♦ Tire Chemical Called The DDT Of Our Time ♦ Project Drawdown for Climate Hope ♦ Urban Tree Policy Endorsements ♦ Edmonds Stream Team Releases Baby Salmon ♦ Sound Water Stewards of Island County ♦ Demonstration Garden Work Party ♦ History of The Sierra Club in the Pacific Northwest
April 11th:
♦ Zoom: Earth Day Community Recognitions, plus Bonnie Gail ♦ Lower Snake River Dam Survey & Report ♦ Drive Electric Earth Day ♦ 21 Acres ♦ Moving to Pollution Free Buildings ♦ No Military Training in State Parks ♦ Marine Resources Committee Activity ♦ Heron Nests at Edmonds Marsh ♦ Mandating Sustainable Electricity ♦ Sound Transit's Volunteer Oversight Panel
March 7th:
♦ Zoom: Michelle Nitardy, our new Washington state Sierra Club Chapter chair ♦ Legislative Session: Wrap Up ♦ Edmonds Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) plan ♦ Whidbey Island work parties ♦ Nominations for Earth Day Recognition ♦ Sound Water Stewards ♦ Island County Transit Survey ♦ Meadowdale Beach Park Estuary Restoration ♦ Film: Forgetting Nature ♦ National Sierra Club Board Elections ♦ Stillaguamish River Restored Estuary ♦ Urban Tree Campaign ♦ Volunteer Opportunities in Schools ♦ Sno-Isle Political Interview Team
February 7th:
♦ Zoom: Sound Waters University ♦ 2022 Goals Survey ♦ Island County Climate Emergency Petition ♦ State Legislation ♦ Climate Crisis Webinars ♦ Recording: Trust Land Transfer Program ♦ Diversity in Environmental Stewardship ♦ City Tree Funding ♦ Daily Herald Climate Change Articles ♦ Snohomish County Urban Tree Policy ♦ Native Plant Demonstration Garden ♦ Sno-King Water Watchers
January 10th:
♦ Zoom: Trust Land Transfers ♦ Connecting State Legislators - Environmental Priorities ♦ Navy Training in State Parks ♦ Martin Luther King Days of Service ♦ 350 Everett Program ♦ Sound Waters University Scholarships ♦ Sno. Co. Energy Efficiency and Resiliency Program ♦ Cooke Aquaculture ♦ LWV Trees Planting ♦ Whidbey Isl. Transit Electric Busses ♦ Edmonds Stream Team Planting Salmon ♦ Clean Energy In Schools ♦ Forest Stewardship on Whidbey Island ♦ 2021 ♦ Volunteers Honored
2021
♦ Zoom: Celebrating our Volunteers ♦ Futurewise: Washington Can't Wait Week of Action ♦ Flawed Development Approval Process ♦ Sound Transit ♦ Hazardous Chemicals - DOE ♦ USL Climate and Social Justice Webinar Series ♦ Protecting State Trust Land ♦ Audubon Christmas Bird Count ♦ Joe Scordino, Edmonds Marsh ♦ HEAL presents Health in the Climate Crisis.♦ Sno-Isle Leader Elections ♦ Save Urban Trees - LWV & DNR ♦ Meadowdale Estuary Restoration ♦ Communications Volunteer
November 8th:
♦ Zoom: Election Follow-up: Relationships ♦ Dams vs Salmon ♦ Chase Bank ♦ Democracy Happy Hour ♦ Native-Led Environmental Projects ♦ Evergreen Tuesdays ♦ HEAL Act and Environmental Justice ♦ Urban and Community Forestry Program ♦ Fossil Fuel Free Future Day ♦ Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee ♦ Edmonds Wildlife and Native Plant Demonstration Garden
October 11th:
♦ Zoom: November Elections ♦ Sound Transit Light Rail ♦ A Week Without Driving ♦ Island County Student Activists Petition ♦ Confrence on Race ♦ What Happened on 1st Street? ♦ Salish Sea and Orca Rights ♦ Salmon in the City ♦ Daily Herald Environmental Journalism ♦ Edmonds Marsh Tour ♦ Healthy Forest Day ♦ Fight Invasives on Whidbey Island.♦ Save Urban Trees ♦ Environmental Leadership Paradox
September 6th:
♦ Zoom: Trivia Contest & Influencing Political Campaigns ♦ Voting Rights ♦ Dams vs Salmon ♦ EV Charger Rebates & Car Show ♦ ReLEaf ♦ Whidbey Environmental Action Network wins Toad protection ♦ Volunteer to Fight Invasives
August 9th:
♦ Zoom: Electric Vehicles ♦ Change powered by people ♦ Light rail survey ♦ Bird Fest ♦ LWV beekeeping and picnic ♦ Food Rescue Program ♦ Climate Grief book ♦ Group Volunteer activities ♦ Edmonds Marsh tour and lunch ♦ Meadowdale Beach Estuary Restoration ♦ Adopt a Stream Opens Salmon Passage ♦ Clearing Invasives in Edmonds Marsh ♦ Volunteer activities
July 5th:
♦ Zoom: Saving Trees to protect climate ♦ Electrify Buildings ♦ Video - Invisible Hand: Rights of Nature ♦ United Students of Whidbey Island vs protesters ♦ Longview coal terminal stopped ♦ Heron nest chicks at Edmonds Marsh ♦ Volunteer activities
June 7th:
♦ Zoom: Reducing Waste - Heather Trim ♦ Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians support Rep. Simpson's plan to save salmon ♦ Stop Subsidizing Fossil Fuels ♦ Navy Training in State Parks ♦ Leader Nominations ♦ Skagit River Dam Relicensing Talk ♦ Snohomish County Forest Stewards ♦ Celebrate Juneteenth In State Parks ♦ Food As Climate Activism ♦ Salmon Fry Released into Edmonds Creek ♦ Toxic Chemicals in Your Garden Fertilizer? ♦ Our Recent Environmental & Social Justice Work
May 10th:
♦ Zoom: Favorite Places Outside ♦ Paine Field Runoff Toxic to Salmon ♦ Water Filtration Systems Compromised ♦ Farm and City Land Transfers ♦ Building Equity into the System ♦ Diversity Film Series: I Learn America ♦ New Rules for Fossil Fuels Workshop ♦ United Student Leaders success: Langley City Council declares a climate emergency ♦ 12 Local Organizations Recognized for their Great Work
April 5th:
♦ Zoom: Earth Day Recognitions / Jesse Piedfort ♦ New Rules for Fossil Fuels ♦ Voter Registration Project ♦ Save our Wild Salmon ♦ The Homestretch film on Homelessness ♦ Toxic Waste in Communities ♦ Pt. Edwards Marsh ♦ SnoPUD EV Charging ♦ Trust Lands Transfers
March 8th:
● Zoom: Mike Town on State Forests Lands Management ● Salmon Restoration ● Video: Invisible Hand: Rights of Nature ● State Legislative progress and action ● New Rules For Fossil Fuels ● Virtual screening Teach Us All -- Elevating Equity in Education for Every Student ● Edmonds Climate Action Plan Workshop ● Volunteer accomplishments
February 8th:
● Zoom: Bill Arthur on Lower Snake River Dams ● State Legislative progress and action ● Equity vs Equality ● Nominations for Earth Week Recognition ● Growth Management Act - Futurewise ● Bill Gates Interview ● Car tire chemicals harm salmon ● Fircrest Chapel ● Gas appliances ● Navy Training in State Parks ● Volunteer accomplishments
January 11th:
● Zoom: Priorities for 2021 Social ● Equity and Justice: Native Americans ● Navy Training in State Parks ● Green Snohomish Plastics Drive ● State Fossil Fuels legislation ● Edmonds Community College Climate Change Class ● Indigenous Peoples Forum ● 2020 Environmental Recognitions ● Tulalip Tribes Climate Protection ● Whidbey Students Reported Bank of America not funding new artic oil drilling ● Portland Providence Hospital Reduced potent anesthetic agent
2020
December 7th:
● Social Celebration ● Navy Training in State Parks ● Cooke Aquaculture Steelhead Farming ● Ironwood Development ● Environmental Journalism ● Columbia River Conference ● The Story of Plastic ● Georgia Senate Elections ● GOTV Success Video ● Native American Heritage ● Kalama Methanol Plant ● Pebble Mine ● Perrinville Woods ● Marine Resources Committee ● 2021 Goals
November 9th:
● Social: T.H.R.I.V.E. Act; Take Action on Puget Sound; and state Public Lands petition ● Washington Can't Wait Week of Action ● Goal survey ● W.S.U. Sustainability Series on carbon offsets.● State Priorities and fundraiser .● Democracy School.● Election Results and People of Color.● Elections recap ● Sno-Isle leaders election ● GOTV Champion Letter Writer Denise Marion ● South Whidbey Island ● Transforming Education
October 5th:
● Social: Whidbey Island Youth activists ● 10/22 E&J: What is White Privilege? ● Elections ● Verify your vote ● Climate Change Emergency ● Birds as Dinosaurs ● Salmon in Seattle ● PSE Colstrip sale ● Kalama Methanol Refinery ● Wild Wallace County Park ● Local Journalist ● Reading list ● Whidbey Island Students ● GMA Snohomish County ● Social Media Volunteer ● Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 7th:
● Social: Meet local endorsed candidates ● 9/22 E&J: Discussion of institutional racism ● Wild Wallace County Park ● Mega Methanol Plant ● Pledge to Protect Orcas ● Lower Snake River Dams ● Puget Sound Bird Fest ● Climate Anxiety ● Growth Management Act - Climate Element ● Reversing Global Warming: Introduction to Drawdown ● Event for April Berg and Emily Wicks ● Endorsed candidates ● Students Saving Puget Sound ● Western Toad protection
August 10th:
● Logging near Wallace Falls ● Clearing before development permits ● Climate Solutions Webinar ● Equity and Justice Discussion ● Black National Convention ● Puget Sound Bird Fest ● Primary Election ● 30/30: A Vision for the Future ● Orca vs Navy Testing ● Dams Coming Down ● Summer Outings Virtual Rendezvous