News

• COMMENT for the Future: A few weeks left to comment on the Comp Plan.

• PREPARE in a Year: Simple focus each month. First up: water.

• LEARN Our Landscape Story: Regenerate Whidbey

• Next Conversation: Our Government Works for Us

• CELEBRATE 2025: People who contributed to our community in 2025.

• CURB Citizens United: Can WA State enact a bill to restrict corporation giving?

• EXPERIENCE Art: WCA member Dave Anderson's paintings.

• Next Conversation: How Do Our Investments Affect the Environment?

From Picasso's Guernica to Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) to Faith Ringgold's The American Collection, creativity in images, sound, or words touches us and we feel, sometimes viscerally, sometimes gently. We are compelled to see the things we've ignored, injustice, beauty, or a vision of the way things could be.

In our second year, our neighbors have again given generously. Donations are an investment in our community supporting local groups working on local projects. We are proud to award five grants totaling $25,000. All projects satisfy our goals of impact, interconnection, and local to our Island community.

• Report: Imagining the community we want to build.

• Conversation: Season of Giving, Let's Go Local!

• Comp Plan: COMMENT Before Deadline

• ReGenerate Whidbey: Survey

• Kicking Gase: CELEBRATE for a Cause

With ferry electrification, we’ll see a 90% green-house gas reduction per year. Let's not bemoan that the contract went to an out of state bidder who happened to be 30% ($350 million) lower than a single in state boat builder (Nichols).

• DEFEND Democracy

• HELP Our Orca Relatives

• Island Connversations

• RECYCLE Your Food Scraps!

• COMPOST and CONVERSE

• HOUSE and PROTECT

• CLEAN the Air - ELECTRIFY

• Accepting Fund Proposals

Third in a series on limiting Island County growth to our designated Urban Growth Areas, especially Freeland, by Dean Enell.

• STAND UP for the Climate

• ELECTRIFY It, Cleanly

• WASTE NOT Fairgoers

• PROTEST Aug. 19, noon!

• UW/WSU Climate Ed

• COMPOST Your Funnel Cake

• STEWARD the Climate

• Insurance talk report

• LOBBY for the Climate

• JOIN South Whidbey Prepares

• STUDY Insurance Impacts

• COMMENT before July 14!

• CONSERVE Rain Water

• Island Conversation: 3rd of July Family Picnic

Coupeville protesters day of No Kings national rally.

• JOIN South Whidbey Prepares

• FULFILL the Commitment

• Island Conversation: Teaching Running Water to Walk

We know that growth is not currently occurring in South Whidbey's NMUGA of Freeland. I would strongly recommend that we plan for and promote urban growth there, rather than growing the rural areas by adopting a solution such as increasing that limit of 35 detached ADU's.

Everything comes from the Earth (and Ocean), so let's CELEBRATE! Selected events from Whidbey Earth & Ocean Month and our Partners.

• SUN POWER

• PREPARE with and for Neighbors

• Island Conversation: Resistance is NOT FUTILE

Will a Freeland Sewer fight Climate Change?  The State Growth Management Act thinks so.

• SHAPE the Comprehensive Plan

• Springtime is Veggie-planting Time

• Island Conversations: Community Resilience

• ADVOCATE for Climate

• REDUCE Inorganics in our Garbage

• "Blue Carbon" Film Showing

• Island Conversations: [Climate] Economics for Real People

• REDUCE Organics in our Garbage

• Island Conversations: The Commons, Common Goods, and Community

Whidbey News-Times: Our ferry system is going forward in a green fashion.

Many folks are familiar with the idea of a “carbon footprint” stomping on ecosystems. We like to think of these grants as our “ecosystem handprint” – the good we can do to improve health and resilience for ourselves and our environment.

• BUILD Community, ACT Locally!

• Island Conversations: Community is the Unit of Survival

Amid the national climate nightmare of Nov 5, 2024, a few things went right locally, including a WCA that is more energized than ever to counter a new climate denial mindset at the national level.

When we invited proposals for Whidbey Climate Fund grants, we weren’t sure whether we’d get any response. To our delight, we have received NINE great proposals to restore community resilience and reduce climate pollution, right here on Whidbey

Can we create more healthy and resilient lives, develop a close relationship with nature, and address our ecological crisis at the same time?