History Café: Creating a Hopeful Future for the Puget Sound
Led by naturalist and Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of the Puget Sound author David B. Williams, this edition of History Café centers the ecological story of our region and the "interactions between humans and the rest of the natural world." (Crosscut called Williams's book "a sweeping exploration of how a place shapes lives...it [examines] how keystone and emblematic species like salmon, orca, rockfish, herring, kelp and more are enduring the conditions of the Sound today.") If you're experiencing climate anxiety, check it out—attendees might come away a little more hopeful about the Sound's future.