College of the Environment

I did a self designed major in Renewable Energy at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. I got my masters there as well. I am happy to say they have founded a new college there called the Institute for Energy Studies that I helped create.

A sample from near the tree’s core was sent to a laboratory in Florida for carbon dating, Freedman-Peel said. There, it was estimated that the tree sprouted around 300 B.C., and fell between 300 and 350 years later.

It’s a Skagit Valley mystery more than 2,300 years in the making.
Where did a 300-year-old tree — from around the time of the death of Alexander the Great — come from, and how did it end up under 11 feet of muck and mud in Joe Leary Slough?

Joel Swisher, the new director of the Institute for Energy Studies at Western Washington University, stumbled across the institute by chance after his son enrolled at Western.

At the time, Swisher, 57, was living in Boulder, Colo., where he was an independent…

It’s a drizzly, February day, but the spirits of the elementary school students at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center are bright as they scour the beach for signs of marine life.
Some of them find limpets and barnacles, others find crawly creatures with claws that…

A CENTURY AGO, during America’s expansionist heyday, no one ever saw author and “Manifest Destiny” cheerleader Horace Greeley point across the sweeping expanse of America and urge his eager charges: “Go north, young man!”

Yet, many of us did. And to this day, most…