Neo-Naturalists at the Museum of Northwest Art
Gallery show of a group of talented artists whose work honors the natural world and responds to environmental predicaments
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Is This Where Puget Sound Starts?
Three short (4 minute) videos take the viewer on a tour of streams in Kitsap County…streams that are mainly invisible: underground or hidden by trees. Even more importantly, we see interactions between the streams, the ecosystem, and the communities they flow through.
Animated Salmon Habitat
Art and science work together to produce an animated look at salmon in different nearshore habitats.
The Deep
The way they move is … uncanny! Animated underwater creatures created from household items interact with each other in this short film.
Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast
In this keystone tome, zoologist Eugene Kozloff describes the common plants and animals that inhabit rocky shores, sandy beaches, and quiet bays and estuaries from Monterey to northern British Columbia.
With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Anemones make it to prime-time! Let’s hear more of our ocean friends in popular music.
Return of the Plankton
Who eats whom?
Whose dads are guarding eggs?
What happens when a crab hides in an octopus den?
Beach Walk — A Naturalist’s View
What will curious eyes find on the beaches of Puget Sound? This movie is a quick overview of the many creatures waiting to be discovered, from kelp to octopus, from tiny eggs to giant bull kelp, from dollars to jellies. Narration tells stories about how these creatures behave.
Kelp and Critters
Stretching from Oregon all the way to Alaska, the waters that border the Pacific Northwest house an amazing array of life. This DVD takes you on a journey through 4 seasons of marine life in the Pacific Northwest introducing you do many of its underwater inhabitants and discovering their lives.
Recent Media Articles
Ian’s Ride
In Ian’s Ride, Karen Polinsky tells an inspiring story of Ian Mackay learning ways to approach life after he had been paralyzed from the neck down. One of the things I especially liked about the story was how it focused on the process of finding solutions rather than dramatizing a negative view of the situation.
Our Oceans
A five-episode series, each one about a different ocean. The underwater video is stunning, and it does a good job of pointing out ecosystem interconnections.
The Accidental Ecosystem
Cities do, indeed, have their own ecosystems. These have developed over centuries of city growth, suburb growth, and other human impacts on the lands. This book added a new dimension to my understanding of how we are impacting nature.
Earth For All
Earth for All was published in 2022 as a report to The Club of Rome. As I read it, I realized that it was part of a “new wave” of literature about addressing our current global problems — a wave that was based on systems thinking.
Homewaters
I highly recommend Homewaters — for the way it introduces the components of the Puget Sound ecosystem, but especially for how it weaves the various parts together.