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Twenty Years Ago
March 2018
Forestry-Related Landslides and Their Impact on Neighbors
On November 18, 1996, a landslide originating in a 164-acre clearcut moved swiftly down Hubbard Creek, Oregon, into a residential house killing four people. Unfortunately, this tragedy need not have happened. It could have been prevented when Champion International applied … Continue reading
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February 2018
Bellingham’s First Cohousing Community
Cohousing is a unique way of bringing people together who want to live in a community designed to meet their needs. Bellingham Cohousing Group is one of about 200 groups in the United States that are in the process of … Continue reading
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Cohousing Community
January 2018
Chlorine Being Phased Out of Pulp-Bleaching – GP Plant to Be Affected
Editor’s Note: Georgia-Pacific closed the chlorine plant in 1999. In 2001, it closed the chemical plant, and laid off 420 workers. In 2003/2004 there were cutbacks at the tissue mill; 44 workers were paid off. In 2004, the rest of … Continue reading
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December 2017
Information Fair Presents Bay Clean-up Project
This excerpt is from the December 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. On November 18, 1997, a pilot project to clean up the contaminated sediments in Bellingham Bay was unveiled to the public in an information fair at the Bellingham Cruise … Continue reading
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August 2017
Personal Costs of Driving and Car Ownership
To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. This article is from the August 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Previous articles (Whatcom Watch January 1997, May and June 1997 ) … Continue reading
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July 2017
The Environmental and Human Health Costs of Automobiles
To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we are printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpt is from the July 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Americans directly subsidize driving to the tune of $400 billion per year. … Continue reading
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June 2017
Life Forsaken: Notes on the Ecological Holocaust in Nooksack
To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we are printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpt is from the June 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: Steven D. Redman is author of “Visions of the Sentient … Continue reading
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May 2017
Are Environmentalists Shooting Themselves in the Foot?
To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we are printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The excerpt below is from the May 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: Bob Keller died in February 2017. A long-time contributor to … Continue reading
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April 2017
Local Author Discusses the Need to Protect Chile’s Forests
To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the April 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: The Whatcom County based Trillium Corporation purchased land in … Continue reading
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March 2017
Lummi Island and the Comprehensive Plan
Editor’s Note: Lummi Island has been spared the wrecking ball. In 2015, the Lummi Island Heritage Trust secured a deal to purchase the 105-acre Lummi Island quarry property. The April issue of Whatcom Watch will have an update on the … Continue reading
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