Stories for June 14, 2008

Denis Hayes charts a bold course for climate solutions

Denis Hayes, president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle and a leading exponent of alternative and solar energy, has been celebrating the defeat of the Lieberman-Warner bill, which he calls "a 500 page cap-and-trade law filled with more holes than a Madonna dance outfit." Hayes is a Democrat, but it was mostly Republicans who ganged up to defeat the Senate measure.

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Sailing into oblivion

Seattle's last old Pacific schooner is about to be dismantled. The Wawona's impending "death" this summer offers a lesson in the challenges of maritime preservation. It's a tough end for a landmark ship that people have worked so hard for so long to save.

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One College of the Environment deserves a look back at another

The man who created Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, the nation's first such college, hasn't followed the controversies surrounding a similar college at the University of Washington, but he has some succinct advice: "Devote yourself to the science, the hard data," says C. J. (Jerry) Flora, "and don't get swept up in the fads."

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