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Employee bus passes go on sale Sept. 8 2015-08-28
Bellingham firm builds bike-repair kiosk as gift to public

A-1 Builders in Bellingham has been a bicycle-friendly company for years. A decade ago, to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, A-1 built a large covered space for bicycle parking at the downtown Community Food Co-op store.

Now, for its 60th anniversary, A-1 has built a covered community…

2015-07-28
New project supplies compost, saves money 2015-07-23
GEF Program receives record 15 applications 2015-07-16
Protesters spend 6 hours suspended from Shell ship in Bellingham harbor

Two activists spent about six hours Friday suspended from the anchor chain of a Royal Dutch Shell support ship docked in Bellingham to protest the petroleum giant’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
The protesters sitting in cloth slings attached themselves around 3:30 a…

2015-06-15
Smart Trips planning picnic ride in Red Square June 24 2015-06-11
WWU students, faculty renew request for divestment

Students, faculty and staff have once again urged the Western Washington University Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies.

More than 350 Western employees signed a letter in support of a student-led divestment campaign that is now in its third year.

2015-06-10
Summer bus passes for faculty, staff now available 2015-06-01
AS passes another resolution to ask Foundation to divest

One day after the Western Associated Students Board voted in favor of the Students for Renewable Energy’s [SRE] fossil fuel divestment resolution, a group of 20 faculty, staff and students attempted to deliver a letter to Bruce Shepard asking the university and the Western Foundation to divest…

2015-05-29
Cleanup work along Bellingham’s waterfront to start this summer

Crews could start work on a more than $35 million environmental cleanup of a polluted Bellingham waterfront site as soon as July.

The Port of Bellingham Commission approved a contract for cleaning up the Whatcom Waterway with American Construction Company of Tacoma…

2015-05-21
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