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Earth Day might be the most informal of our nation’s holidays. This weekend Future Fest is on in Anacortes. Special days are times to reflect on the work of our fore-parents, those that have gone before, taking chances and making stands for our own good, today.

The success of the environmental movement rests in the hard work of people insisting on the primacy and permanence of place – their homes, their communities, their hills, their shores, their fishing grounds – in going toe-to-toe against the established order and saying NO, over and over again, until we and our neighbors...