THE DUCKS & US SONGBOOK MOVIE
This musical in a book is a refreshingly new treatment of diverse mindsets coming to terms with their relationships with the environment.
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Shifting Baselines in the Sound
How are our expectations for a healthy Puget Sound are colored by our recent experience with a less than bountiful Sound?
SHIFTING BASELINES: COMMON SENSE FOR THE OCEANS
The Shifting Baselines web site is a treasure trove of videos, serious and funny, professional and student made. They all share a common theme: shifting baselines.
SPIDER CRAB SHEDS ITS SHELL
Whenever you look at a crab molt the “how does it do that?” factor is pretty high. Here’s a video of a crab molting that’s pretty amazing.
SHALLOW WATERS
“If we do nothing it will all be gone…” This haunting line is from a beautiful music video featuring ten year old Ta’Kaiya of the Sliammon First Nation in British Columbia.
Eggs on the Beach
Of course you’re wondering what important creatures live on our beaches, yet are invisible to us. Eggs on the Beach premiers at the 13th Annual Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival, Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. in the Historic Lynwood Theatre.
Our Home
This video about the impact of ocean acidification upon our shellfish and the Puget Sound was created, directed and co-filmed by a group of dedicated Suquamish High School youth who want to bring about community awareness of this iss
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.