A whale of a view
Gray whale as lawn ornament. A chat with the new head of the Nature Conservancy. And the case for incrementalism.
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Correction 6/18/19 6:05 p.m.: An earlier version of this web post incorrectly identified Stefanie Worwag.
True life: there's a whale in our yard
Stefanie Worwag and Mario Rivera have an unusual visitor to the beach in front of their home. It’s not a broken down car on blocks… exactly. It’s a gray whale corpse. We asked them why they said yes to the whale and what it’s like to watch (and smell) a leviathan decay.
Sally Jewell
Sally Jewell is former Secretary of the Interior, former CEO of REI, and now the new leader of the world’s biggest environmental organization, The Nature Conservancy. She spoke about a culture of sexual harassment and pipeline access, and what climate change will mean for how we use the outdoors.
Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities
American democracy is currently being blasted for its slow pace. But New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik says that sluggishness is a feature, not a bug, of our democracy – and one worth defending. His new book is A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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