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DIANA SOMERVILLE’S ACT LOCALLY COLUMN: Ours is a water planet
THE PENINSULA’S BIGGEST source of water pollution? Storm water. When rain falls on forests and meadows, trees and…
Diana Somerville
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DIANA SOMERVILLE’S ACT LOCALLY: Spilling the beans on veggie gardens
NO PROBLEM GROWING healthy organic veggies for Bill Klover. After he retired from farming in Eastern Washington, scaling…
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DIANA SOMERVILLE’S ACT LOCALLY COLUMN: Back to the future — with compost
“I WAS RAISED composting,” says Mary-Alice Boulter, touring her Port Angeles garden, “but when the city offered a…
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DIANA SOMERVILLE’S ACT LOCALLY: Learning from Mother Nature
MOTHER NATURE PUTS on her dazzling best on the North Olympic Peninsula. Glacier-kissed mountains and old-growth forests, rain…
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ACT LOCALLY: Farmers give insight on ‘menu for the future’
“FOR ME, IT was the black beans,” said Robin Mills. She, her husband and daughters ages 2 and…
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Environmental issues column by Diana Somerville — “An army of home-grown solutions”
AS WE BECOME more aware of the ways our lives intertwine, the notion of winners and losers grows…
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ACT LOCALLY: What we do to our planet
“SEEMS LIKE THEY’VE upped the ante for awareness,” my friend moaned, with mock exhaustion. Ecologically savvy, Mary recycles…
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DIANA SOMERVILLE COLUMN: Deciding what our world is worth
ON THE SEATTLE ferry last week, I was excited to see that if you buy a large coffee,…
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DIANA SOMERVILLE COLUMN: Always a good time to plant a tree
“YOU SHOULD PLANT a tree for every year you’re alive,” my grandfather told me. “It’s a way to…