Since having been roundly criticized for driving anywhere, anytime, ever, 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: A curious......

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. The 50-50 partnership was announced on Friday afternoon in a joint statement. The venture has been named "Catchlight Energy." The new company will use staff and resources from Weyerhaeuser's Federal Way office and a number of Chevron's plants.......