Plastics & Our Salish Sea

PLASTICS AND OUR SALISH SEA by Alison Ahlgrim, Spring 2020 Photo by John F. Williams Photo by John F. Williams PLASTICS AND OUR SALISH SEA by Alison Ahlgrim, Spring 2020   Take a walk along a beach anywhere along the Salish Sea, and you are likely to see all kinds of...

Art and Plastics

ART AND PLASTICS by Karen Hackenberg, Spring 2020 Painting by Karen Hackenberg Painting by Karen Hackenberg ART AND PLASTICS by Karen Hackenberg, Spring 2020   Between Scylla and Charybdis, oil on linen, 28″x35″, 2019, by Karen Hackenberg. My painting...

Microplastics

SEARCHING FOR MICROPLASTICS IN THE SALISH SEA by Julie Masura, Spring 2020 Photo by Julie Masura Photo by Julie Masura SEARCHING FOR MICROPLASTICS IN THE SALISH SEA by Julie Masura, Spring 2020   “What do you know about plastics?” “Absolutely nothing.”...

Schroadtrip

“SCHROADTRIP”: A PARLEY FOR THE OCEANS INITIATIVE by Nick Schippers (with Hans Schippers), Spring 2020 Growing up surfing on Washington’s remote and rugged coastlines, my brothers and I learned early on just how important our waters are. As avid surfers...

Poetry-7

Poetry Spring 2020 A Plastic Future Is Not Fantastic by Mahathi Mangipudi   Photo by John F. Williams Small Things by Janet Knox We gift them tiny plastic things to sit on a shelf or play and break to signify like or caring or thinking of you then toss in...

Kingdom of Plastics

THE KINGDOM OF PLASTICS by Julie Jeanell Leung, Spring 2020 Photo of Schel Chelb estuary by John F. Williams Photo of Schel Chelb estuary by John F. Williams THE KINGDOM OF PLASTICS by Julie Jeanell Leung, Spring 2020   Standing on the beach at the Schel Chelb...