Conservation
Friends in high places
Influential voices line up for Green Mountain lookout
Date: 05/25/2012 | Local News
Terrace park-and-ride earns green certification
The Mountlake Terrace park-and-ride center has received a Green Globes certification for its environmentally friendly features.The parking garage at the center is fitted with solar panels and efficient lighting and was built with recycled material.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Local News
Conservation topic of fair in Everett on Tuesday
EVERETT -- Learn how to recycle, re-use and reduce at the city's first-ever Conservation Carnival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Carl Gipson Senior Center, 3025 Lombard Ave.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Local News
Puget Sound can't cure itself
Viewpoints: With commitment, we can restore our waters
Date: 04/21/2012 | Commentary
PUD reports record energy savings
EVERETT -- Customers of the Snohomish County Public Utility District saved more energy in 2011 through conservation measures than ever before, according to the PUD's calculations.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Local News
Group nears goal to save island in San Juans
A $6.4 million calculated gamble in December by San Juan Preservation Trust has, at least temporarily, preserved uninhabited Vendovi Island in the San Juans.
Date: 04/14/2012 | Life
Arlington earns 10th tree award
ARLINGTON-- The city has been awarded its 10th consecutive Tree City USA award from the National Arbor Day Foundation, and city officials plan to celebrate Saturday by planting more trees.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Local News
Everett may spend $3M to upgrade water meters
EVERETT -- Staff is recommending the Everett City Council to award a $3 million contract for new water meters without accepting other bids.
Date: 04/04/2012 | Local News
A view to saving energy
Whidbey home tour features green home designs
Date: 03/29/2012 | Home and Garden
Public enemy
Forest Service wants your advice on tackling noxious weeds
Date: 03/19/2012 | Local News
Tribe: Bald eagle hunting permit a victory for tradition
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.
Date: 03/18/2012 | Nation & World
Drive and determination
Granite Falls students intend to win eco-car competitions
Date: 03/08/2012 | Local News
Future foresters face off
Students tests forest practices that may aid industry
Date: 03/03/2012 | Local News
Camera in India catches rare snow leopards
SRINAGAR, India -- Conservationists have caught a pair of rare and reclusive snow leopards on camera wandering a remote, mountain region once ravaged by conflict between India and Pakistan.
Date: 03/02/2012 | Nation & World
40 bighorn sheep from Canada are released in Nebraska
HINTON, Alberta -- Forty bighorn sheep are settling into their new home in Nebraska, about two weeks after they were captured in the Canadian Rockies and moved 1,300 miles to the United States.
Date: 02/25/2012 | Nation & World
Poachers slaughter elephants in Cameroon
JOHANNESBURG -- Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in a patch of Africa where they are more dangerously endangered than anywhere else on Earth, wildlife activists said.
Date: 02/17/2012 | Nation & World
Mardi Gras beads cause environmental hangover
NEW ORLEANS -- The beads were flying all around them, some pooling in the street, some caught by revelers and cherished for a moment -- most of them destined, in all likelihood, for the landfill.
Date: 02/17/2012 | Nation & World
Marysville looks to expand LED streetlight initiative
MARYSVILLE -- New lights could soon be coming to city streets.Officials want to use a federal grant and rebate money from Snohomish County PUD to install 81 energy efficient LED streetlights.
Date: 02/13/2012 | Local News
Navy goes green with renewable energy at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine.
Date: 02/12/2012 | Nation & World
Learn tricks for your garden in free classes
Our biggest Northwest natural resource -- rain -- can go to work in your garden to benefit your landscape, better the environment and sustain wildlife. It's free and so's this series of workshops and tours.
Date: 02/11/2012 | Life
Who shot sea lions and seals recently is still a mystery
None of the seven sea lions and one harbor seal shot and killed over the past couple of months in Western Washington were found in Snohomish or Island counties, a federal official said.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Local News
Green-job training put on hold after program produces few jobs
Government-funded training for so-called green jobs has come to a near standstill in Snohomish County, having produced lackluster results.
Date: 02/02/2012 | Business
Sustainable and whimsical
Arlington home uses eco-friendly construction, unique touches
Date: 01/19/2012 | Home and Garden
Whooping crane plane runs afoul of regulators
WASHINGTON -- Ten young whooping cranes and the bird-like plane they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.
Date: 01/08/2012 | Nation & World
10 steps to greener 777s
Boeing workers make deliveries easier on the environment
Date: 01/02/2012 | Business
Cameras capture 35 endangered rhinos in park
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Dozens of camera traps installed in an Indonesian national park earlier this year captured images of 35 critically endangered Javan rhinos, including five calves, officials said Thursday.
Date: 12/30/2011 | Nation & World
Sites offer tips on how to save on heating
Cold winter days and nights can put stress on the household-heating bill.But by taking a few important measures to improve a home's heating efficiency, you can help save on your winter energy tab.
Date: 12/18/2011 | Business
State forest land protected for wildlife
ELLENSBURG -- More than 10,000 acres of Cascade Range forest has been protected for wildlife habitat and public access with transfer of the land from Plum Creek Timber Co. to the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Northwest
Edmonds Community College professor wins state conservation award
EDMONDS -- Thomas Murphy, chairman of the anthropology department at Edmonds Community College, was selected for the Washington Association of Conservation Districts' Conservation Teacher of the Year Award.
Date: 11/29/2011 | Local News
2 Indonesians killed orangutans as pests
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Two Indonesian plantation workers said they killed at least 20 endangered orangutans and proboscis monkeys as a means of pest control for landowners looking to protect their crops, police said Wednesday.
Date: 11/24/2011 | Nation & World
Idaho and Montana state wolf hunts head to court
BILLINGS, Mont. -- With more than 150 gray wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges Tuesday will consider halting public wolf hunts until a lawsuit seeking to restore protections for the animals is resolved.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Learn about wildlife tracking
Susan Morse lectures on wildlife tracking and conservation at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Black Box Theatre at Edmonds Community College.
Date: 11/05/2011 | Life
Paige is now a happy mother of 17 -- piglets
If you saw Paige, a very pregnant pig at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe, here's an update: She had her piglets. A whole bunch of them.The popular sow, ready to give birth any day during the fair, delivered 17 live piglets Sept. 16.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Local News
Cut costs with a programmable thermostat in the proper spot
When it comes to easy and inexpensive energy upgrades, we often suggest the installation of a setback thermostat.
Date: 09/25/2011 | Life
A vision we can share
Viewpoints: Complete the North Cascades National Park
Date: 09/25/2011 | Commentary
Lake Stevens High’s solar panel to generate power, learning opportunities
LAKE STEVENS -- Installation of a solar panel is planned for the roof of the Lake Stevens High School Performing Arts Center.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Local News
Brightwater is built to save energy in addition to treating wastewater
MALTBY -- When the $1.8 billion Brightwater plant opens Saturday, it will have several environmentally friendly features in addition to providing sewage treatment.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Local News
Zip-A-Dee-Ya-Hoo
Tour a historic Camano Island farm on zip lines (video)
Date: 09/06/2011 | Local News
Gather neighbors for free energy assessments
A new program allows groups of at least five Snohomish County households to team up to get free energy assessments.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Local News
Ford, Toyota to develop hybrid engine
A chance meeting between top executives of Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. has evolved into a deal to jointly develop a gas-electric hybrid engine for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.
Date: 08/23/2011 | Business
President announces deal to boost fuel economy
WASHINGTON — Ushering in the largest decrease in auto fuel consumption since the 1970s, President Barack Obama and automobile manufacturers Friday announced a deal that will save drivers money at the pump and dramatically cut heat-trapping gases coming from tailpipes.
Date: 07/29/2011 | Nation & World
Jon Huntsman touts his environmental credentials
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. defended his reputation as an environmentalist during a speech Thursday night to a GOP environmental group.
Date: 07/28/2011 | Nation & World
Land trust seeking new project
CAMANO ISLAND -- Whidbey-Camano Land Trust is working this summer to determine what the nonprofit organization's next big project might be.Last year, under a deadline, the land trust raised about $4 million to buy and protect a 664-acre forest on south Whidbey Island.
Date: 07/22/2011 | Local News
Where to put ferry dock?
Mukilteo Council thinks tank farm is the best option
Date: 07/18/2011 | Local News
Texas battle cry: Save the incandescent bulb
WASHINGTON -- It doesn't have the ring of "Remember the Alamo," but a new battle cry has gone up in Texas: "Remember the incandescent bulb."
Date: 07/10/2011 | Nation & World
'Everybody wins'
Even developer pleased about Roesiger land sale for park
Date: 07/07/2011 | Local News
Community Extra: Applause
HONORSTulalip Tribes win awardThe Tulalip Tribes have been recognized with this year's Emil Eriksson Service to Children Award.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Local News
Baboon adopts bush baby orphan
NAIROBI, Kenya -- An abandoned bush baby and a yellow baboon have formed an unlikely companionship at an animal orphanage in Nairobi.
Date: 06/10/2011 | Nation & World
Lake Roesiger property once seen as a mini-city will now be a 2,900-acre park
LAKE ROESIGER -- The state Department of Natural Resources got the green light Tuesday to buy almost 2,900 acres of rural timberland that a developer until recently had eyed as a site for a mini-city.
Date: 06/08/2011 | Local News
Much of world's tropical forests managed poorly
LONDON -- Large swaths of the world's tropical forests have been officially shielded from deforestation, but an international conservation group says that may not be enough to save them.
Date: 06/07/2011 | Nation & World
No funding for repairs to Suiattle River Road
DARRINGTON -- In the face of a lawsuit by local environmentalists, the federal government has backed out of plans this summer to spend $1.7 million in emergency highway funds to repair to the once popular Suiattle River Road 26 in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Date: 06/02/2011 | Local News
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