by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 6, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
Through the Central Kenai Peninsula’s Community Compost project, we’ve learned just how much organic matter matters in our watershed. At number three out of the top 100 solutions to reverse global warming (drawdown.org), reducing food waste will take a huge bite out...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 6, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
This past weekend there was quite the stir in Homer as a jack-up rig came down Cook Inlet, into Kachemak Bay, and around the spit. Meanwhile, California communities were hit with the news of a massive oil spill from a pipeline leak off the southern coast. These events...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 29, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
At the last Harvest Moon Festival in Soldotna, our Local Foods Program hosted a booth, with an interactive component aimed at helping event participants understand the carbon footprint of their food choices. The carbon footprint of a food, or “foodprint,” is the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 8, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska
Most people don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia in 1921, or how, more recently, it helped shape resource development in Alaska. But this forgotten history is vital, because as the poet Maya Angelou famously put it: “You can’t really know...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 11, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
Decades-Old Regulations Currently Allow Use of Toxic Chemicals after Oil Spills A federal district court judge ruled on August 9 in favor of Inletkeeper and a coalition of individuals and environmental groups and ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 26, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
By Claire Babbott-Bryan, Climate Change and Wild Salmon Intern I’ve been a water nerd my whole life. It began, as it so often does, with the third-grade interdisciplinary river unit. In English class, we wrote poetry personifying the local biota. In art, we crafted...
