I found myself excitedly telling my friends about this book, saying: “It’s such a great coffee table book that it almost makes me want to buy a coffee table.” Joking aside, I’ve long been a fan of Sylvia Earle. I even had a chance to sit down and chat with her quite some years ago
PLANET OCEAN: Why We All Need A Healthy Ocean will take you and your kids and grandkids on a deep dive, with author Patricia Newman and photographer Annie Crawley, to visit the Coral Triangle near Indonesia, the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic Ocean at the top of the world.
This photo-rich article offers an experiential view of some of the life in Edmonds Underwater Park as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old SCUBA diver. The article also round out the experience with some of the important context surrounding it.
This beautiful book inspires kids to become “nature detectives” of a wide variety of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and tiny invertebrates barely visible to the naked eye.
I’ll just let this painting speak for itself. It’s at the North Kitsap Heritage Park
If we listen with our eyes, we can hear the seashore talking. “How do I love thee? Let me count the hearts…”
There’s plenty to see under the surface of Puget Sound, as can be seen in the photographs of Master Diver Rich Zade
Collections of high quality glimpses at our underwater world can be found in Pacific Northwest Diver, a bi-monthoy e-Magazine that offers peeks below the surface that leap right off the screen.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
