Amazon is getting sued for broken Kindles and promises to replace them at no charge. JP Morgan says there will be no new layoffs in Seattle, where it purged WaMu's operations after taking it over several months ago. More UW scientists are cashing in on their lab work and raising venture capital to go into the biofuel business. more ›

, after having questioned the wisdom of destroying so much parking down at Seattle Center, we've been more and more attuned to the environment and trying to figure out how to decrease our "carbon footprint," all the more apropos given that today's Earth Day. But this morning, we received the following email from a friend of Seattlest who works in the environmental policy field: more ›

Washington lumber giant Weyerhaeuser and California's Chevron Oil and Gas Company have announced a partnership to develop a new bio-fuel. The planned fuel would be created out of wood fiber--something we imagine Weyerhaeuser has plenty of. more ›