Environmental Studies Department

Title		Authored on
Canada, Seattle’s neighbor to the north? Nope, better check your map	A CENTURY AGO, during America’s expansionist heyday, no one ever saw author and “Manifest Destiny” cheerleader Horace Greeley point across the sweeping expanse of America and urge his eager charges: “Go north, young man!” Yet, many of us did. And to this day, most…	2015-02-17
Next major PNW earthquake could kill 14,000, research shows		2015-01-14
Miles named National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow		2014-09-03
Gift of aprons connects Western to Switzerland		2013-10-03
GPS measures Nelson's unofficial record paddle at 151.88 miles	Bellingham padler Brandon Nelson unofficially paddled 151.88 miles around Lake Padden according to the GPS tracking systems he had on his boat on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 20-21, according to Western Washington University Environmental Studies Department chairman Michael Medler.	2013-08-23
When Canada plans pipelines, it forgets the First Nations at its peril	A funny thing happened on the way to the pipeline hearings. On Jan. 9, 2012, the eve of the Joint Review Panel hearings in British Columbia to review Enbridge’s proposal to build a twinned “Northern Gateway” pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, then-natural resources…	2013-08-19
Congress burns firefighters — again	In the weeks and months immediately following 9/11, one of the most touching responses in my neighborhood, not far Ground Zero, was the overwhelming support of police and fire departments from around the country. Across the street from my apartment, at the 6th Precinct headquarters from which…	2013-07-30
Rossiter to discuss aboriginal land claims and the Northern Gateway Pipeline May 16		2013-05-13
Mark Reis to talk sustainability at Sea-Tac Airport		2013-01-18
Bunn to present on Polaris Project Thursday		2012-11-14

Canada, Seattle’s neighbor to the north? Nope, better check your map

A CENTURY AGO, during America’s expansionist heyday, no one ever saw author and “Manifest Destiny” cheerleader Horace Greeley point across the sweeping expanse of America and urge his eager charges: “Go north, young man!”

Yet, many of us did. And to this day, most…

2015-02-17

Next major PNW earthquake could kill 14,000, research shows

2015-01-14

Miles named National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

2014-09-03

Gift of aprons connects Western to Switzerland

2013-10-03

GPS measures Nelson's unofficial record paddle at 151.88 miles

Bellingham padler Brandon Nelson unofficially paddled 151.88 miles around Lake Padden according to the GPS tracking systems he had on his boat on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 20-21, according to Western Washington University Environmental Studies Department chairman Michael Medler.

2013-08-23

When Canada plans pipelines, it forgets the First Nations at its peril

A funny thing happened on the way to the pipeline hearings. On Jan. 9, 2012, the eve of the Joint Review Panel hearings in British Columbia to review Enbridge’s proposal to build a twinned “Northern Gateway” pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, then-natural resources…

2013-08-19

Congress burns firefighters — again

In the weeks and months immediately following 9/11, one of the most touching responses in my neighborhood, not far Ground Zero, was the overwhelming support of police and fire departments from around the country. Across the street from my apartment, at the 6th Precinct headquarters from which…

2013-07-30

Rossiter to discuss aboriginal land claims and the Northern Gateway Pipeline May 16

2013-05-13

Mark Reis to talk sustainability at Sea-Tac Airport

2013-01-18

Bunn to present on Polaris Project Thursday

2012-11-14

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