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| Students to present ideas for improving State Street | |||
| Planning for the megaquake, and after | Two years after Japan was rocked by the same type of monster quake and tsunami that will strike the Pacific Northwest someday, the world鈥檚 most seismically fortified nation faces another five to 10 years of rebuilding. Nearly 320,000 people are still in temporary housing. Mountains of debris鈥 |
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| Martha Bean to discuss natural-resource mediation March 7 | |||
| Green studying tsunami's impact on coastline debris | |||
| Lake Padden stewardship needed from many to preserve popular park | Two years ago, volunteers came together to study the water quality of Lake Padden and the land use of its watershed, the area whose waters drain into the lake. With the help of Western Washington University's Huxley College faculty and students and working under the auspices of the鈥 |
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| Ken Johnsen to discuss the transformation of Seattle鈥檚 waterfront Feb. 28 at Western | |||
| Managing emergency services at the Grand Canyon National Park | Brandon Torres has a huge responsibility 鈥 ensuring the safety of more than five million people who visit the Grand Canyon National Park every year. As the branch chief of emergency services, Torres manages a team of National Park Service employees and volunteers who oversee emergency鈥 |
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| Kombucha Town brewery opens downtown in Herald Building | There鈥檚 irony in Chris McCoy selling his kombucha 鈥渂eer鈥 as an alcoholic beverage, since as he sees it, kombucha might actually sober you up quicker than it will get you drunk. McCoy recently opened a microbrewery called Kombucha Town on the sixth floor of the Herald Building in downtown鈥 |
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| Western's Rebekah Green Receives Grant to Study Tsunami's Impact on Coastline Debris | Approximately 6,700 miles away from Misawa, Japan, one of the Port of Misawa's 65-foot long docks is battering the Washington coast. Rebekah Green, associate director of the Resilience Institute at Western's Huxley College of the Environment, and two of her students are trying鈥 |
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| Bellingham artist spray-paints murals to deter graffiti scrawl | Years ago, Shawn Cass was arrested in Bellingham for spray-painting a bridge. Now he promotes his spray-painted murals as deterrence to graffiti. "People are less likely to deface a mural," he said. "I'm working on the other side now." |