Letters to the editor

Published 1:30 am Friday, August 15, 2025

Great story

To the editor:

What an engaging story Nova Sheppard shared July 31 regarding sustainability and community engagement, exemplified by Bainbridge Island’s Coyote Farm Homestead.

She paints a timely picture of our community coming together to sustain, enjoy, and support one another in our natural environment during a particularly dangerous time for our country and any climate solution efforts.

The nostalgia of community her article made me feel, of a more graceful and simpler time, left me thinking if only our country could “Reinvent the Wheel.” If only we could all get out of our individual silos, come together as a nation, and get back to using our many talents to solve problems that affect us all.

We have only one sustainable planet available to us, and we are all interconnected by our actions that not only affect today, but future generations as well. So let’s each be a ripple effect toward a gentler and more sustainable human community of tomorrow.

Susan Schremser

Bainbridge Island

Thanks for article

To the editor:

Hats off to the Bainbridge Island Review for publishing a recent piece focusing on the actions taken by Coyote Farm Homestead, to lower carbon emissions (“Climate change, community connection part of BI farm’s focus” Aug. 1).

I am a believer that action on climate change is vital at all levels of society: local, state and federal. Not only do we need actions like what is happening at Coyote Farm Homestead, we also need to keep up our political lobbying for strong legislation at all levels of government.

Citizens Climate Lobby just finished meeting with over 400 national legislators in person in the other Washington. And after those meetings, where one of the asks was to reject further restrictions on clean energy tax credits, we saw five Republican senators increase their pressure on the Trump administration to back off on strangling new wind and solar projects.

Yes, we all need to keep working at all levels of society to help create a livable future that runs on clean energy. And the high school journalist, who wrote that piece for our local newspaper, gets it. Let’s all of us find a way to get involved in this most essential climate work.

Bobbie Morgan

Bainbridge Island