The future is coming, ready or not. We can either plan for it or be stuck with it. What’s our vision for Whidbey as the world churns around us?

So many pressures...we can see climate change in shifting rain and temperature patterns. Animals, insects, plants and even humans are migrating. What about water, and crop yields, and natural disasters?

Everything seems more expensive. The working class – from retail and restaurant to farm and school, from construction and trades to teachers and nurses — cannot afford to live here, yet
we are told to expect thousands more residents on Whidbey – probably older, more affluent, and in need of the services a younger workforce could provide.

As we have been discussing in our ISLAND CONVERSATIONS, economists, corporations, and governments tell us that endless growth and technological innovation can fix our problems, but that idea ignores the constraints of nature, and the one thing we can never get more of: land.

Join us as WHIDBEY CLIMATE ACTION presents NEAL COLLINS, co-founder of Latitude Regenerative Real Estate, to talk about shifting our thinking from simply reacting to climate change and “battening
down the hatches,” to taking positive steps to create the community
we truly want.

What does that mean in terms of our homes, properties, farms, neighborhoods, shores, forests, and open spaces?

Let’s explore how land planning and land use can serve resilience and quality of life on Whidbey.

HOW MUCH IS OUR HOME WORTH TO US?
Let’s talk it over. 

CARPOOL OPTION!  If you pass the Bayview Park & Ride (at Bayview Rd and Hwy 525) at 5:35-5:40 on your way to Langley, please consider stopping in to see if anyone else is heading our way in order to carpool. Every car that stays at Bayview will avoid 8 miles of driving!