This week on the Compass we talk with a Port Townsend resident who lived for a time on Koro Island in Fiji, which was ground zero in last month’s record-breaking Category 5 cyclone—and consider the lessons to be learned as climate disruption makes such catastrophes pretty much inevitable going forward.

This week on the Compass we talk with the organizers of this year’s Community Read, Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate.  Then we talk with a retired NASA engineer who has built a tractor that indirectly runs on sunlight and water.

Republicans in Jefferson County hold their caucus, and the GOP Chairman thinks the Presidential race could come down to a dead heat between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.  And, tax season is also scam season, so we reprise a show from a year ago about a couple of scams that took aim at KPTZ’s own news director.

We take you on a guided tour through the mists of Port Townsend’s past on a visit to some of its most rarely seen hidden corners. (This is a reprise of the 3-24-14 show featuring the Historical Walking Tour of downtown PT as part of the 2014 Victorian Festival, including a walk through the long-empty upper stories of the Hastings Building with Hastings descendant Heather Dudley-Nollette.)

This week on the Compass we listen in as the Jefferson County Planning Commission deliberates its response to a ten-year planning process for a Brinnon Master Plan Resort, and we chat with one of the founders of the brand-new Peninsula Homecare Collaborative.

This week on the Compass we learn from a rescue professional more than any mariner hopes to ever need to know about how to deal when disaster strikes at sea.

This week on the Compass we ask for opinions on a Navy proposal to use local parks and marinas for nighttime war games, and we celebrate the return of an essential institution in any maritime community: a marine secondhand store.

This week on the Compass we look at one idea to address homelessness in Jefferson County. Then we walk with the peace marchers as they commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday.

This week on the Compass we attend a public hearing on the final environmental review for a Master Planned Resort that has divided a tiny south-county community for more than a decade.

As we enter the New Year, Compass takes a look back at the major stories of 2015 and discovers that many of them had to do in one way or another with climate disruption.