South Lake Union Woonerf Moves to Full Council
Woonerfs are designed to be living streets, giving space for pedestrians and bicyclists along slower moving cars. They feature traffic-calming measures such as curbless,...
Cascadia Innovation Attempts to Overcome Cascading Climate Dangers
I want to do an even handed and dutiful reporting job about the 2021 Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference. But I’m in an downtown Vancouver...
Big Ideas from Imagine Downtown
Last year, the One Center City framework for Downtown Seattle graduated into a "defined action plan." In the process, City officials sought to continue...
Peace Arch State Park hosts climate change rally
Over 700 citizens from both sides of the U.S./Canadian border met in Peace Arch State Park in Blane on Saturday for the “Climate Change...
Week of Action: Washington Can’t Wait for Environmental Justice
For the upcoming 2021 Washington legislative session, Futurewise is proposing several significant changes to the state’s Growth Management Act. Under its campaign called Washington...
King County tackles carbon emissions through transit credits
The Metropolitan King County Council is getting serious about climate change. Yesterday, the Council announced that it had come up with a brand new...
An Urbanist Case for Small Nuclear Power Reactors
Nuclear power accounts for nearly 20% of American electricity generation, which still outpaces renewable power generation by a few points. That output is done...
Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with...