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Kathleen Hebert: Protecting the Puget Sound through Activism and Investment

Washington Nature

If you don't have government policies behind them, you can only succeed so far, so I began to focus on advocacy in conjunction with working on nonprofit projects,” she said. Within two months of being on the board, Kathleen was chairing the Marketing and Communications Committee. That’s what I love about impact investing,” Kathleen said.

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Opinion: The President’s Plastic Trigger

Circle of Blue

Two years after that, in the summer of 2024, President Joe Biden joined the campaign with a notable directive to federal agencies to replace plastic straws, cutlery, and packaging with those made from paper and other biodegradable materials. The science that found the Earth is warming in dangerous ways. Bans on plastic straws in the U.S.