by David Knight | May 24, 2023 | Clean Water, Community, Events, Healthy Habitat
On Saturday, May 27, Cook Inletkeeper hosts the Mouth to Mouth Wild Run & Ride between the mouths of the Kenai (Kahtnuh Kaq’) and Kasilof (Ggasila Hdakaq’) rivers. Participants can choose to run 3 or 10 miles, or bike the 10 miles from one river mouth...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 15, 2023 | Community, Events
The last few years have brought a barrage of shifts in the communications landscape. While this playing field has always changed rapidly, the continued monopolization of media outlets and growing mistrust in traditional and social media outlets on the heels of a...
by Ben Boettger | Apr 25, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
Vote online in the HEA election here, or send your mail-in ballot by May 4. We can’t predict what energy system we’ll have in 2030, but it won’t be the one we have today.Since the 1960s, the majority of our electricity has been fueled by Cook Inlet natural gas. In...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Mar 14, 2023 | Civics, Climate Change, Community, Events, Government
In April Inletkeeper will be supporting three pro-renewable energy candidates for the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors. In District 1 (Kenai-Nikiski), candidate Rob Ernst is a commercial fisherman and teacher recently retired from Nikiski High...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 16, 2023 | Civics, Community
Ḵaax̲gal.aat (“person who packs for themselves”) is the Tlingit name for Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, who is now known as an Alaska Native social justice warrior, but in 1945, she was an extremely marginalized Alaska Native woman in a very hostile...
by Sue Mauger | Jan 19, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Energy & Alaska, Events, Salmon
Nowhere is the disconnect between energy policy and climate impacts more evident than in Cook Inlet. In the same waters covered in last month’s federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258, federal fisheries managers closed the highly-lucrative Pacific cod fishery in...
