Any cool event can happen once. Maybe twice. After so many years the “just a cool idea” starts to be folded into the fabric of a community.
Read More of Creating Tradition: Sixth Annual Migratory Bird Festival
Having moved into the North Cascades Eco-region in July for the graduate residency program, these mountains are finally starting to feel like home. Month after month I …
Read More of Sharing Home: Three days of adventure in Washington
As music lovers the world over mourn the passing of Prince ~ the legendary singer, songwriter, musician (he played every single instrument on several of his albums …
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Join North Cascades Institute at Village Books in Bellingham on May 3 at 7 pm for a free reading by Kathleen Dean Moore from her new book Great …
Read More of Great Tide Rising: Toward Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change
We are the North Cascades Institute. And if you are reading this blog you are somehow affiliated with or are curious about our organization devoted to environmental …
Read More of LEED by Example
Bumper to bumper traffic on I-5 provides the perfect thinking spot. Usually this is the place where my mind starts to wonder things like “Why does traffic …
Read More of Where the Powerlines Start
By Tyler Davis, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. Spring has arrived and summer will be here before we know it. When I think about summer, I …
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By Hannah Newell, a M.Ed. Graduate student of the Institute’s 15th Cohort Where would one place their grave in these woods? And how could one bury themselves? …
Read More of John McMillan's Cabin: Traveling the paths of ghosts
Environmental Education has the unique opportunity to bring people and organizations together in the most radical places on this planet. Last month, myself and three other members …
Read More of Growing Minds: Tree Planting at Cornet Bay with the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program
By Aly Gourd, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. As graduate students and adventurers in the North Cascades, we take risks. We take risks in living where …
Read More of Finding Freedom in the North Cascades
