This article by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu was published October 31, 2009 on the Climate Progress website

Photograph a person holding a caulking gun while caulking the inside of a window.I’ve always been a bit of an energy efficiency nut.

I’ve made it my mission to cut the utility bills at every home we’ve owned. Long before I learned ab… Continue

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Published October 15th, 2009 by cdunagan in the Kitsap Sun.

Jay Manning’s last official act as director of the Washington Department of Ecology was to announce that a water right will not be required to collect rainwater from the roof of a building.

It has been a bone of contention among some folks that state water law appears to require a water rights permit for the di… Continue

Political and business leaders from the Northwest to Washington, D.C. stepped into the spotlight Thursday on the issue of climate change. Rob Manning reports. The original article fom Oregon Public Broadcasting is here.

Within hours of each other Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled out new greenhouse gas rules, leading Democrats in D.C. announced a Senate bill to deal with c… Continue

The Northwest can meet 85 percent of its new electricity needs over the next 20 years solely through conservation, and do so at half the cost of building power plants, according to the Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Council.

That's a radical concept in an industry that typically meets growing demand by adding new production. Yet by all indications at the state and federal levels, energy efficiency's day has arrived. In the draft of the 20-year energy policy blueprint that the advisor… Continue