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Beach cleanup for Valentine’s Day: Show the ocean some love!
Maritime Heritage Park 500 W Holly St, Bellingham, United StatesPick up beach cleanup supplies, refreshments, and join us at the mouth of Whatcom Creek to prevent trash from getting into Bellingham Bay! To combat plastic pollution in the Salish Sea, we host beach cleanups — as well as cleanups along rivers and lakes — throughout Whatcom and Skagit counties, providing cleanup equipment and a place […]
Tour a Bellingham waterfront cleanup site (and the future Salish Landing Park space)
Cornwall Beach 100 Pine St, Bellingham, WA, United StatesBetween Boulevard Park and downtown Bellingham, trees were milled, stored and chemically treated for decades. Now, the RG Haley site is being cleaned up to become a public park three times larger than Boulevard Park. Tuesday, February 27th from 12–1:30 p.m. Meet at Cornwall Beach (100 Pine St STE 202, Bellingham) RSVP today You might recognize this site […]
March Sustainability Social Hour at Structures Brewing
Structures Brewing 601 W Holly St, Bellingham, United StatesLast year, we teamed up with our friends at Peak Sustainability and Sustainable Connections to support a new generation of happy hour networking events, the Sustainability Social Hour. The events were a big hit, so we're keeping the beer and conservation flowing with quarterly social hours in 2024! These are casual, drop-in networking events designed […]
Protect the best, restore the rest: Managing forests for a climate-changed future
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship 1207 Ellsworth Street, Bellingham, WA, United StatesFor over a century, our approach to managing forests has been based almost entirely on our drive to maximize financial returns from intensive timber production. How can we work with the natural functions of forests to give us much more? A new approach to forestry, known as ecological forest management, is gaining traction across the […]
Ripple Effects: An evening film screening and rally for our region’s salmon, rivers and forests
Backcountry Essentials 214 W Holly St, Bellingham, WA, United StatesForests, rivers and salmon define the Pacific Northwest, but all three face an uncertain future. This Earth Day week, watch some new films and learn how to turn your love of the outdoors into action with local environmental nonprofit partners RE Sources and Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA). Patagonia and Backcountry Essentials are hosting a […]
Beach cleanup for Earth Week
I & J Waterway 1000 Hilton Ave, Bellingham, WAPick up beach cleanup supplies, refreshments, and join us on Bellingham's waterfront to prevent trash from getting into Bellingham Bay! Saturday, April 20th 10am–12pm Meet at parking lot near 1000 Hilton Ave (I & J Waterway, Bellingham. Map) To combat plastic pollution in the Salish Sea, we host beach cleanups — as well as cleanups along […]
Sacred Earth Fair – Urban Edition
First Congregational Church of Bellingham 2401 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA, United StatesRE Sources' Land and Water Policy Manager Alexander Harris will be facilitating a panel discussion at this 2024 Sacred Earth Fair hosted by First Congregational Church of Bellingham on April 20th. The fair calls together diverse environmental voices of our community that have shared common interests and concerns for creation care and environmental activism. Tabling […]
Beach cleanup for Mother’s Day
Maritime Heritage Park 500 W Holly St, Bellingham, United StatesPick up beach cleanup supplies, refreshments, and join us on Bellingham's waterfront to prevent trash from getting into Bellingham Bay! Sunday, May 12th 12:00–2:00pm Maritime Heritage Park, Bellingham. Meet near the fish hatchery (1600 C St, map) To combat plastic pollution in the Salish Sea, we host beach cleanups — as well as cleanups along rivers and […]
Community hike: Learn about ecological forestry
Have you ever wondered if there are alternatives to clearcut logging? Can our forests produce wood products while still fostering biodiversity, forest health, and climate resilience? Join local forest policy expert Alexander Harris (RE Sources) on a hike through managed timberlands to learn about the promises and challenges of "ecological forest management" — a new […]
Intertidal monitoring at Fidalgo Bay (May 24th)
Come volunteer with the Fidalgo Bay Citizen Stewardship Committee to survey beaches in Fidalgo Bay! Help us collect data about the beaches and the organisms living on and in them. Roles available for different skill and comfort levels. Dress for the weather and bring water! There are two survey dates: Friday, May 24th at 9am […]
Village Books Event: A Forest of Your Own with Seth Zuckerman and Alexander Harris
Village Books 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA, United StatesVillage Books and the North Cascades Institute have teamed up once again, to bring you another great event in the Nature of Writing Series. RE Sources is joining the fun for an evening conversation about ecological forest management. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT From those who own forested property already to those who dream of […]
1999 Olympic Pipeline Tragedy: Remembering 25 Years
On June 10, 1999, the Olympic pipeline ruptured and spilled nearly 250,000 gallons of gasoline into Whatcom Creek which ignited and killed two boys and a young man in Bellingham. Join us in learning and remembering with a tour, film screening, creek restoration work party, and community gathering during the week of the 25th year […]