College of the Environment

Although I don’t consider New Year’s resolutions to be akin to blood oaths or pinky swears, I do know that the more people you tell you’re going to do something, the more that “something” becomes real.

That’s why, as a crowd of friends gathered around my dining room table last Saturday—…

I've just received a copy of "Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment," a collection of essays by Sarah Clark-Langager, director of Western Gallery at Western Washington University; and by William Dietrich, assistant professor of environment studies at…

ON THE ONE hand, says Bellingham craftsman Stan Miller, the gorgeous mandolins he makes are essentially "a box with a stick at one end."

Of course, that's like saying the Sistine Chapel is an auditorium with a colored ceiling. Miller's mandolins…

The Puget Sound Partnership Leadership Council has named the following individuals to the Partnership Science Panel and Ecosystem Coordination Board.

Wayne Landis, appointed to his first term on the Science Panel, is the Director of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology, part of the…

Western Washington University's Urban Transitions Studio will present environmental assessments of a concept for infill and alleyway redevelopment along Cornwall Avenue from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1 in Bellingham City Hall council chambers, 210 Lottie St.

The presentation…

While families traveled about the country by car and plane to be with relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday last week, three friends were traveling by canoe with their sights set on the Port of Ilwaco.

Western Washington University student Marc Van Grinsven, and Dan Blessing and Greta…

"The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest" by William Dietrich (University of Washington Press, $19.95). This book focuses on the debate over the management of old-growth forests both on the Olympic Peninsula and worldwide — Forks, the self-proclaimed "Logging…