This week on the Compass we talk with Port Townsend’s own delegates to the recent Paris climate talks, and then we attend a high school chemistry class where a common household cleaner is presented as the possible green fuel for the future.

Mountain Spirit Herbals.  This week on the Compass we visit a traditional herbalist in her forest home to talk with her about her battle with the federal Food and Drug Administration.

This week on the Compass, we take you on a trip up the Duckabush River to learn how to be a Jefferson Land Trust Preserve steward.

This week we take the Compass on the road–far, far to the south, to perhaps the most biodiverse and critically endangered rainforest in the world—the one known as the Chocó.

We talk with a NASA glaciologist who in his retirement to eastern Jefferson County has decided to dedicate himself to Taming Bigfoot—by which he does NOT mean Sasquatch, but the county’s carbon footprint.

This week on the Compass we reprise a program from last February about an artist and a scientist who collaborate to give a full picture of a community in Greenland, and a town meeting in which participants in the Marine Discoveries Intitiative give the program high marks.

This week on the Compass we take a look at the newly unveiled Climate Change Preparedness Plan for the North Olympic Peninsula, the product of two years of work by multiple agencies.

This week on the Compass we take part in something called legislative theater in which the audience comes up with and debates new laws to fix our broken health care system while real legislators look on.