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Water driving urban design: Landscape architecture professor leads national panel

Hope Hui Rising, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture with Washington State University’s School of Design + Construction, moderated and presented in a panel entitled “Water Urbanism: Water as a Driver for Urban Design and Landscape Architecture,” at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Conference, Oct. 21-24 in New Orleans. Her panelists included Dennis Carmichael, an ASLA […]

Storm Survival, Recovery and Food Safety in Power Outages Information Available from WSU Extension

Record snow falls followed by ice storms stalked by warming temperatures create an environment perfect for devastating floods. With nearly a million Washington residents without power, Washington State University Extension experts have smart advice for keeping people and animals safe, as well as resources for recovering from disaster. Storm survival information is posted at http://ext.wsu.edu […]

Ready or Not

As events in Japan this past March showed us, Big Ones really do happen. Richter 9 is about as large as they come, an event so enormous it takes away the breath of even a geologist like myself. It’s no comfort to think that quakes of that same general size are likely along the western […]