Energy is the lifeblood of modern economies and there’s no more amazingly useful form of energy than electricity. That’s why I was initially startled to read the recent news that the last of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants has been shut down, a turn of events that makes Japan the first major economy of this […]
PULLMAN, Wash.—In 2004, E. Kirsten Peters, a geologist-turned-newspaper-reporter in Pullman, started writing a monthly column on local rocks and fossils, pulling from her extensive field experience in the area. Today that column has grown in scope and become the nationally syndicated “Rock Doc” columns, distributed twice per month to more than 100 newspapers across the […]
Between the debt-ceiling kerfuffle and Hurricane Irene, you may have missed two bits of summertime news that will be important for what we drive in the coming years.
Just over a century ago, when William Howard Taft was president and I was a young woman, an entrepreneur named Thomas Aldwell started building a dam in the Northwest woods of the Olympic peninsula in Washington.
The laws of physical science teach us we can neither create nor destroy energy. But it’s also a simple fact that we can surely waste it.
Those of us who have been around the block a few times will remember the last time gasoline hit $4 per gallon a new industry sprang up. Drivers could buy magnets to attach to fuel lines to allegedly boost a car’s gas mileage by 20 or even 30 percent.
LA CROSSE, Wash. – La Crosse-area farmer Steve Camp is squeezing a lot out of the camelina he grew last summer – highly nutritious livestock feed, oil that can be used for cooking, and perhaps most importantly, biodiesel that provides growing energy independence and another step toward on-farm sustainability.
REARDAN, Wash. – Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the Oilseed Crop Production Workshop, offered by Washington State University’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, beginning at 8 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 26, at the Reardan Community Building at 120 S. Lake St., Reardan. More information and an agenda are available at http://www.css.wsu.edu/biofuels/Workshop.html. The workshops […]
COLFAX, Wash. – Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the Oilseed Crop Production Workshop, offered by Washington State University’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, beginning at 8 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 27, at Hill Ray Plaza, 81 S. Vista Point Dr., Colfax. More information and an agenda for the day are available at http://www.css.wsu.edu/biofuels/Workshop.html. […]
OKANOGAN, Wash. – Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the Oilseed Crop Production Workshop, offered by Washington State University’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, beginning at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 25, at the Okanogan Armory, 71 Rodeo Trail Road, Okanogan. More information and an agenda are available at http://www.css.wsu.edu/biofuels/Workshop.html. The workshops are free […]