Student Engage in Service Promoting Pullman Merchants Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textile majors in Visual Merchandising and Promotion, AMT 208, are involved in service learning targeted to promote economic development in Pullman. Acting as freelance consultants with mentoring from their instructor, Dr. Carol Salusso, 14 teams have created video emails, advertisements and visual displays. Pullman […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences today launched an electronic newsletter focused on organic and sustainable agriculture. The new, monthly e-newsletter is called Green Times. Subscriptions are free, and new subscribers should start or manage their subscription at http://bit.ly/greentimes.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The departments of horticulture and landscape architecture at Washington State University and of landscape architecture at the University of Idaho have teamed up to host a special screening of the recently released documentary film “Women in the Dirt.” The film will show at the Kenworthy Theater in downtown Moscow on Nov. 15 […]
Welcome to Green Times! For over 30 years, Washington State University has been at the forefront of sustainable and organic agriculture education, innovation, and research. WSU scientists provided some of the first direct evidence of the nutritional value of organically grown food and are leaders in calling for changes in the way Americans practice agriculture. […]
PUYALLUP, Wash. – Western Washington businesses will soon have a new resource for help in navigating new regulations concerning stormwater management on their job sites. An $85,000 grant to the Washington Stormwater Center from The Boeing Company’s Global Corporate Citizenship Northwest organization will help launch Washington State University’s efforts to develop a Business Resource Program […]
At first I wasn’t sure I was reading the CNN report correctly. The story hinged on special pavement that uses the impact of human feet to generate electricity. That’s right. A young man in Britain has invented a device that harvests the energy from a footfall hitting the pavement to power things like LED lights. […]
PROSSER, Wash. — The press is invited to attend a Cherry Industry Information Session & Orchard Tour. The tour is slated for November 17 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Participants will assemble in the Hamilton Hall Large Conference room at the Washington State University Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center located at 24016 N. […]
With some of the worst weather in memory, the 2011 Western Washington hay season was very short and not at all sweet. Livestock owners are already feeling the pinch with prices commanding a late-season premium and qualities that can only be described as “all over the place.” To help ensure your livestock receive adequate nutrition, […]
Rhone Rangers Ride Again Some of wine drinkers’ favorite grape varieties are originally from the Rhône River Valley of France. Now, though, Syrah, Grenache, Viognier and a handful of other varieties are grown in vineyards all over the world, including Washington state. That’s why a U.S.-based organization, Rhone Rangers, recently helped fund the research of […]
Plant Communication Breakthrough Traditional thought holds that a disease-causing organism has to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance. Now, two Washington State University scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal its defenses within five minutes of an attack. The discovery, along with the scientists’ successful cloning of barley’s […]