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.
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#53 Daniel Knudson
FEAST WITH YOUR EYES FIRST. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews culinary legend Daniel Knudson on the best and worst of holiday feasts. Knudson, who is currently a fixture at Key City Fish, reveals secrets to the perfect (or more perfect) holiday meal.
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#8 Drunken Fruit & Local Butchering
Mara shares her family recipe for drunken fruit, preserving food as a holiday gift. Local butchering of a pig raised by Janet Aubin on Finn River farm.
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Compass for the Week of December 14
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.
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Compass for the Week of December 7
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.
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Compass for the Week of November 30
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.
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Compass for the Week of November 23
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.
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Afrose Ahmed
Host Sheila Bender talks in studio with Port Townsend poet Afrose Ahmed and discusses her life, her poetry and the teaching of embodied writing.
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#239 Orca Baby Boom of 2015
Dec. 16, 2015 – Host Nan Evans speaks with Ken Balcomb, Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the Center of Whale Research in Friday Harbor, in an interview recorded in Seattle in October. They discuss the unusual number of births during 2015. Closing music is “Orca,” performed by Mythos.
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#238 Learning Lichen
Dec. 9, 2015 – Host Mary Robson interviews via phone Dr. Katherine Glew, lichenologist and researcher at the University of Washington. Closing music is “The Strangely Popular Lichen Song,” performed by Alan AtKissson.
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