Pulling creosoted pilings, removal of toxic columns: reason to celebrate. More information about this in a recent article by John Dodge, in the Olympian newspaper: Budd relieved of creosote.

More information from the Port of Olympia, Multi-Partner Project will Remove Hundreds of Toxic Creosote Pilings from Budd Inlet Shores

Questions: why hasn't the creosote industry paid more for clean up? Why has the burden been thrust onto the public to pay majority costs for clean up? Is it proper for the public to subsidize private for profit business operations?

Volunteers Sought for New “Stormwater Stewards” Program
Thurston County Stormwater Utility/Stream Team Program and WSU Extension arerecruiting volunteers to train as "Stormwater Stewards." The program works with localresidents to help reduce pollution in our local waterways and Puget Sound from stormwaterrunoff.
Volunteers receive training in many aspects of on-site stormwater management includingrain gardens, water-wise plants, sloped biodetention hedgerows, pervious pavements,vegetated roofs, and more. Trained volunteers use their new expertise to work in teams toprovide guidance to homeowners who want to do their part to protect local waterways andPuget Sound.

Classes and hands-on field trainings will be held in the evenings and on weekends toaccommodate work schedules. Landscaping professionals are also encouraged to take part inthe volunteer certification program. The training dates are evenings on Thursdays, May 10,17, 31, June 7 and 21, with field days on June 10, 23, and 30.

To learn more and receive an application packet, contact WSU Extension’s Native PlantSalvage Program at Erica@nativeplantsalvage.org or 360-867-2164.

Had a great conversation at Sizizis under the Jupiter full Moon early Thursday morning about how the socio-cultural-economic harms people, and leaves them hanging. Rampant fear, distrust, disease. The real trickle-downs from the predatory Wall Street style economic system.

The worst part is that the system is set-up so the big corporations actually have a "fiduciary responsibility" to cut throats in order to be most attractive to investors.

Maybe we would be better off eliminating the owner/investor class from our society, if people are not able to refrain from hurting each other, and killing each other, in their quest to accumulate wealth...

And thanks for the hot chocolate!

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Wednesday, 9 November, 2011
In this photo, the full Moon is conjunct Jupiter.
Airplane crosses from SW to NE in the 7 or 8 o'clock position inside the halo.
There was ground fog in the park tonight.

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Three more panoramas, and a video, below the break:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49nuxu-VZJ0
www.globalwaterdances.org/location/olympia.html

June 2011
There was a great turn-out of I would estimate about 40 people or so. We gathered at Moxlie Basin in Watershed Park, then hiked to a parking lot where Indian Creek emerges from an underground culvert, then to Yashiro Garden for the Global Dance, and then to Eastbay, where Moxlie Creek (combined with Indian Creek) join the Salish Sea.

Global Water Dances website: www.globalwaterdances.org/

[UPDATE: video from the event posted here: olyblog.net/global-water-dances-olympia]

Leaves at Yashiro City of Olympia Japanese Garden

June 2011
Yashiro Garden was the site of the Olympia performance of Global Water Dances, yesterday, Saturday the 25th of June.

There was a great turn-out of I would estimate about 40 people or so. We gathered at Moxlie Basin in Watershed Park, then hiked to a parking lot where Indian Creek emerges from an underground culvert, then to Yashiro Garden for the Global Dance, and then to Eastbay, where Moxlie Creek (combined with Indian Creek) join the Salish Sea.

Global Water Dances website: www.globalwaterdances.org/

Thanks to all who made this happen, and to all who participated!

Forest view at Moxlie Springs Basin in Watershed Park

Big person? Small Shopping Cart? Both? (comments about capitalism)

An investigation and inquiry into local and regional water issues and innovative sustainable water management.
Water Wise: A new blog by Krag Unsoeld, dropsofwaterfalling.blogspot.com

A couple of photos [more here,] video, and words about industry, ecology, humanity, and the ethics of sustainability.

Some question the sustainability of many current industrial practices, including forestry practices.

Another question: what is sustainable for whom (and for how long?) Certainly current practices ARE NOT sustainable for many of the critters that depend on old-growth forest characteristics, or unpolluted water and uncontaminated earth anywhere.

Ought ecosystems have the right to flourish on their own, in their natural state, being respected by the hands of human beings? Ought humanity and human beings make an effort to do the least harm possible?

My opinion is that we have a lot of room for improvement in terms of harm reduction!!!

Egypt, Wisconsin, Washington! Enough is enough! No more business as usual! Government institutions—public institutions—need to serve the public interest, not private and special interests! Common interests, like jobs for all and a healthy environment with stable ecosystems, go first. Special interests, like private profit, last! Toward a popular uprising of resistance to unjust and immoral policies! Nonviolent democratic revolution!

Saturday 26 March 2011, Olympia Washington Worker Solidarity Rally and Rally for the American Dream

This rally was to demonstrate solidarity with union workers in Wisconsin, many of whom are currently defending against an aggressive assault by special interests to destroy the right to collective contract bargaining. Many people believe there is an effort by private companies to bankrupt the public sector, in order to take-over public insititutions.

Another rally at WA State Gov't HQ in Olympia is planned for next week: Thursday 17 March, Noon, on the steps of the Legislative Building. For more information about that from fuse, here.