| This Week Meaningful Movies Port Townsend Presents “Atomic Bamboozle” – Mon, Mar 11th Atomic Bamboozle is a 46-minute documentary that follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists, and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular reactors (SMRs) |
This Week
Polystyrene & Low-Density Polyethylene Recycling – Tues, Mar 5th
Port Townsend StyroCyclers, a Local 20/20 Beyond Waste Project, collects white styrofoam (expanded polystyrene, or EPS), all colors of polyethylene (LDPE-4), white EPS food trays, and separated biodegradable (squishy) packing peanuts, but not crispy (EPS) peanuts, and no mixtures. Materials are inspected at the curb, and only clean and … Read the rest
| This Week TLab Meeting – Mon, Feb 26th The Transportation Lab is a Local 20/20 Action Group working to promote a transportation system that minimizes the need for personal motor vehicles. Such a transportation system must be safe, convenient, and healthy, and it must be based on walking, the most healthful mode; bicycling, the most efficient mode; mass transit, the |
| This Week Low Tide Walk at Night – Tues, Feb 20th Find out what marine critters get up to after dark! Join Port Townsend Marine Science Center volunteers and staff for a guided low tide walk at North Beach County Park. Free, but donations are appreciated. Recommended: weather-appropriate clothing and shoes that can get wet and have good traction for |
In the March Local 20/20 column in the Port Townsend Leader, Tracy Grisman shares information about all of the R’s – Repair, restore, reuse, reduce, recycle, rethink, repurpose. The resources mentioned in the article can be found at the bottom.
By Tracy Grisman
I’ve been trying to stay positive about life these days. As things seem to be falling … Read the rest
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“The Climate Restorers – Part 1” – Sun, Feb 18th
This will be the first movie of the Climate Solutions Film Festival, sponsored by the Global Earth Repair Foundation, in partnership with United Earth Networks and Local 20/20. Narrated by Peter Coyote. The film directors, John Bowey and Phoebe Barnard, will be there in person to introduce the … Read the rest
| This Week Local 20/20 Beyond Waste Group Meeting – Wed, Feb 7th The Beyond Waste Action Group looks at a number of issues including food waste composting, plastics reduction and recycling, reduction of garbage on an individual and community level, and various other waste-related topics that spontaneously come up during the meeting. Beginning in February, meetings will be on the |
| This Week Donate Blood in Port Townsend – Mon & Tues, Jan 22nd & 23rd It takes 1,000 donors per day to sustain blood supplies for patients in the community. Bloodworks Northwest holds blood drives in Jefferson County and elsewhere in Washington throughout the year. The current blood drive in Port Townsend takes place on Jan 22nd and 23rd. Get |
| This Week Donate Blood in Port Townsend – Mon & Tues, Jan 15th, 16th, 22nd, or 23rd It takes 1,000 donors per day to sustain blood supplies for patients in the community. Bloodworks Northwest holds blood drives in Jefferson County and elsewhere in Washington throughout the year. The next blood drive in Port Townsend will take place on Jan 15, |