Look around you today Inland Northwesterners - there are businesses you rely on and community leaders you admire who are banding together to call upon Senator Maria Cantwell's and Senator Patty Murray's leadership in solving the Columbia River salmon crisis. The business owners and community…
"If you are like me, you get a lot of junk mail. On average, people in the U.S. receive 560 pieces of junk mail every year. That means every household receives unsolicited mail equal to 1.5 trees every year -- over 100 million trees for…
This is was taken on a road leading to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano as it continues to billow smoke and ash during an eruption. Photo by Halldor Kolbeins in the Boston Globe. Check this in full size and many incredible photos of the eruption HERE.Thanks to…
Proving once again why he won the lifetime achievement award in our "Dear Science" category (our media watchdog category addressing an environmental enigma: the climate skeptic) George Will recently took the chance to leverage the coal mine disaster in West Virginia to pull from the…
According to Wired Sceince, this ancient, 16-foot tall Norway spruce lives in the scrubby Fulufjället Mountains in Sweden. At 9,550 years, Old Tjikko is the oldest single-stemmed clonal tree, and took root not long after the glaciers receded from Scandinavia after the last ice age.…
Submissions for the Spokane Riverkeeper and DTE "Name the Riverkeeper Boat" competition are DUE BY THIS SATURDAY MAY 1.That means you only have four days left to come up with something fitting and something witty that generations of Spokanites will recognize and admire when they…
Though we may be big-time eco wonks, there's always a little George Costanza in us that makes us wish we would have went in to architecture. Designing the future, envisioning the built environment - sounds alright by us. Well today these two passions of ours…
In today’s edition of celebrity news, Jason Alexander almost pulled a Costanza. The former Seinfeld actor hit a 14-year-old bicyclist while driving in Los Angeles. Fortunately, Alexander's publicist said that the actor fully accepted responsibility for the incident and was grateful the boy wasn't seriously…
If you missed The Simpsons last Sunday, their special Earth-Day related episode, you missed a heavily current-events referenced episode where they touched on an array of hot-button issues and topics including: support for Comedy Central’s South Park duo Trey Parker and Matt Stone, whaling, shark…
An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil a day is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the explosion aboard an offshore oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico last week - on Earth Day of…
German director Werner Herzog is known for strange films about the power of nature. One of his least seen is a short documentary that doesn’t really qualify as a feature-length but it will stay with you for a long time. It’s called "Lessons Of Darkness"…
Last week we shared with you some images of trucks and trailers that will pass through Missoula County en route from Lewiston, Idaho, to oil fields in northern Alberta as part of the Kearl Oil Sands Project. Due to begin in 2010, the mining equipment…
Well that was fun, wasn't it? We're talking about Earth Day (both of them) and Spokane's Earth Week (as announced by Spokane Mayor Mary Verner in her proclamation). In the years that we've been doing DTE, we've never seen the base this invigorated and raring…
On Earth Day, Mayor Mary Verner took the opportunity to unveil an electric charging station on the north side of Spokane City Hall. Check the story HERE and there are more photos after the jump.
Press ReleaseCity of Pullman Up to Its Neck in Waste Pullman, WA -- April 21, 2010 – The next time you consider swimming or boating on the South Fork of the Palouse River, you might want to consider what you are getting into. Based upon…
On Wednesday, the eve of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, one of our favorite writers Andrew Revkin of Dot Earth and The New York Times wrote of a query he had sent out to some of his contacts, people he called "thinkers and doers"…
What are you doing at your computer? Get outside and enjoy YOUR environment.But if you have to be stuck inside for any amount of time, spend that time enjoying the wonderful music of Xavier Rudd and Izintaba. The new album by the Australian music man,…
For DTE, before there was An Inconvenient Truth, there was...
What’s your favorite river? We’re fortunate enough to be surrounded by many beauties and if you’re into photography Save Our Wild Salmon has an easy contest to raise river awareness and promote our rivers. You have until April 30th to send them a photo of…
Kind of sounds like a Nic Cage movie doesn't it?Because of Earth Day, the changing of seasons, gardening preparation and generally increased outside activity, April is typically a month where more people show awareness and concern for the natural world than any other month.That attention…
Special DTE announcement:Bart Mihailovich, Paul Dillon and Paul Haeder, from KYRS, Down to Earth and Mother Earth, will be on KYRS Thin Air Community Radio (89.9 and 92.3 FM) at 2 p.m. this afternoon (4/21) for a special Earth Day 2010 talk. It's a round…
We've read a lot of articles the last couple weeks about Earth Day - articles looking back over the last 40 years and articles questioning the place Earth Day and environmental issues hold in the current economic and political landscape.But far and away the most…
It was a tough session for the Spokane River. Press Release from Environmental Priorities CoalitionLegislature Delivers Mixed Results for Environment No Solution for Clean Water, Progress on Budget and Toxics OLYMPIA, Wash. – Today, the Environmental Priorities Coalition announced the results of its 2010 legislative…
If you said, Transportation Secretary then congratulations.And as the SRTC blog said, he is “somewhat of a rockstar with bicycle, pedestrian, and transit advocates, but he isn't gaining any popularity with conservatives and a lot of people in the manufacturing and trucking industries.”Image courtesy of…
Last week we shared a great quote from Robert Stone, director of the excellent documentary, “Earth Days.”“I would argue that the environmental movement, which is a similarly forward looking enterprise, would be well served by taking a look back at itself, however briefly, if for…
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