Bainbridge Island Rotary recently awarded a $20,000 community grant to the Earth Services Corps Club at Bainbridge High School. The Earth Services Club provides learning opportunities to the Bainbridge community that raises awareness and improves the environment. Student members discovered that 30 percent of the trash collected from the BHS campus consisted of food waste.read more ››

Puget Sound Energy announced that the utility has now distributed more than 10 million free and discounted compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to its more than 1 million electric customers in Western Washington since the residential lighting program launched in 2002.

PSE residential electric customers have taken advantage of discounted CFL bulbs through local retailers, events and promotions, and there is now an average of 10 energy-saving bulbs in use for every customer in the utility’s nine-county electric service area.read more ››

We comb the news for even the slightest indication that the recession is at long last fading into history. We are so preoccupied looking for hopeful signs about the future, we miss the extent to which life has changed over the last two years, particularly the business environment.

“Just take me to the money” declares a successful sales executive in a meeting with colleagues and co-workers. Surprisingly, perhaps, his words are met with uneasy silence. Even in sales, the world has changed.read more ››

After nearly two decades in the business, Microsoft plans to stop selling its Microsoft Money personal-finance software, a company spokesman confirmed. The move follows Microsoft’s move last year to discontinue sales of Money in retail boxes in favor of online downloads.read more ››