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Cocktails & Fishtales: State of the Sound Report

Gig Harbor Brewing Co. (Harbor Taproom) 3155 Harborview Dr, Gig Harbor

To wrap-up the 2019 Cocktails & Fishtales season, the Puget Sound Partnership will be presenting their biennial State of the Sound Report. The Puget Sound Partnership intends for these reports to inform the legislature and the public on the status of restoration efforts across the Puget Sound, including how the ecosystem has been responding. Learn [...]

Cocktails & Fishtales: Investing in Ecosystem Service Credits

Gig Harbor Brewing Co. (Harbor Taproom) 3155 Harborview Dr, Gig Harbor

Theda Braddock, adjunct professor at the University of Washington-Tacoma, will join us to discuss ecosystem service credits. The EPA defines these credits as the products of functioning ecosystems that benefit people. For example: these credits might come in the form of incentive for landowners in exchange for managing their land in a way that provides [...]

Cocktails & Fishtales: Climate Change and Impacts on our Health

Ocean5 5268 Point Fosdick Dr NW, Gig Harbor

Dr. Kris Ebi, United Nations Climate Change Report Contributor and University of Washington Global Health Professor, will discuss human health risks from climate change, and the adaptation and mitigation options to manage those risks. Kris is also the only researcher in Washington who contributed to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2018 report, Global [...]