Kate Poss

Aug 5, 2024 | resilience.org | Kate Poss |Vicki Robin

Ed. note: This is Vicki Robin’s introduction to the main article which follows from This is Whidbey, written by Kate Poss and with photos by David Welton. When I lived in a household of 9 people, Mathis Wackernagel came and actually measured every item to derive our ecological footprint. It was 4 planets, untenable for sure, but consider this: when I moved into my own apartment, my footprint increased by over 400%.

Jan 26, 2024 | heraldnet.com | Kate Poss

By Kate Poss / For the South Whidbey Record Nosework, also known as Scent Work, is a sport in which a dog fully relies on his own sense of smell, turning a dog’s favorite activity — using its nose — into a fun game. In training and in competition, dogs hunt in all the venues of professional working dogs: interiors, exteriors, vehicles, containers, water and buried “hides.”South Whidbey resident Georgia Edwards has taught nosework classes for more than a dozen years.

Jun 6, 2023 | thisiswhidbey.com | Kate Poss

Note: All photos shared by Rowen Stephens, Peter Morton, Fred Lundahl and Nydia Blood. A young man who imagined being a pilot in 2017 has nearly completed training at an Arizona Aeronautical University, nailed a commercial pilot’s license and, recently earned his flight instructor’s license as well.