Posted by Emily on Apr 15, 2011 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Friday Faves, Salmon, Save Our Wild Salmon, Things We Like | 0 comments
It’s no secret that Anna and bonded over our love of Northwest-inspired animal costumes… Last night Buster the Wild Salmon and Sassy the Sustainable Sasquatch were back in action at our Wild Salmon Rising throw down. We had so much fun that we had to put together a little Sassy + Buster montage…
Happy...
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Posted by Emily on Nov 12, 2010 in Blog, Causes, Climate Change, Featured, Friday Faves, Outdoors, Salmon | 1 comment
For weeks (okay months), I’ve watched Andy Maser of EP Films throw everything he had into a 22-minute long film about salmon. Sure, salmon are cold, slimy creatures that many people go through a day without thinking about. But on Wednesday night here in Portland, I watched 150+ people packed into Keen Footwear‘s great room completely transfixed by these fish and the journey they make...
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Posted by Emily on Sep 17, 2010 in Blog, Featured, Friday Faves, Photos, Salmon, Things We Like | 2 comments
It finally feels like fall… and although we’re grieving the loss of warm summer afternoons, we’re also looking forward to the changing leaves, autumn hikes and donning our rain gear. No really, we’re from the NW… we’re into that kind of thing.
A few things that are getting us excited about the season:
Bike rides
Today is PARK(ing) Day! Ok, so this has nothing...
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Posted by Emily on Sep 2, 2010 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Salmon | 0 comments
Wrote this over on Elephant Journal, but figured we should pop it up here as well… Enjoy!
In the world of new media, time is of the essence. But the constant need to produce daily content and up-to-date information means that sometimes we don’t take the necessary distance to contemplate, consider and meditate upon how we really feel about something.
Or at least that’s my excuse for not...
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Posted by Emily on Jul 9, 2010 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Friday Faves, Outdoors, Save Our Wild Salmon, Things We Like | 0 comments
Dawn at Little Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho. © Neil Ever Osborne
Need a little inspiration this Friday? Here are two stories that are sure to get the job done…
From the Save Our Wild Salmon blog:
Snake River sockeye make an epic migration each year to Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth Valley, climbing nearly 7,000 feet and swimming more than 900 miles to get there. To get a...
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Posted by Emily on May 21, 2010 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Friday Faves, Salmon, Save Our Wild Salmon, Things We Like | 0 comments
We are the last generation who gets to decide if we’re going to save endangered species for future generations. With 100 species going extinct every day, we better start taking that responsibility more seriously. We’re it folks. The actions we take today will directly affect our environment and all of the species that we share our world with.
So start now! Today is Endangered Species...
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