Environment & Sustainability

Council Passes Downtown Rezones, SEPA Infill Modifications

Two major land use bills were passed by the Seattle City Council on Monday. Large swaths of Downtown and South Lake Union will receive...

Wonkabout Washington: Road Map for Washington’s Future

Quick quiz: Can you name all fourteen goals of Washington state’s Growth Management Act? Would you guess that addressing climate change is not one...

Republicans Seek To Pin Seattle with Bertha Cost Overruns

The tunnel boring machine known as Bertha broke though the tunnel wall in Uptown at 11.40am on Tuesday (April 4th), completing its tunneling work and...

Op-Ed: Climate Action Must Be a Seattle Priority Now

The Seattle City Council will have six new members in 2024.  In pre-election polls, voters were focused on public safety, homelessness and housing affordability....

Georgetown’s New Flashy Combined Sewer Overflow Regulator Station

Better stormwater and sewage management is coming to Georgetown soon. King County is sponsoring a project to construct a new combined sewer overflow (CSO)...

Sunday Video: Creating Functional Streets for Livable Cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8zZdLw7cs Bicycle Culture by Design from TEDx Talks on YouTube. Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize Design Co. gives us a brief history of our streets and suggests how we can...

Sunday Video: What’s The Impact of Noise on Us?

https://youtu.be/qryWWGP0kKs Vox takes a deep dive into noise and its effects on humans. As the video shows, much of the noise people experience in their...

High Speed Rail: The Right Kind of Infrastructure Investment

This weekend I took a trip on the Empire Builder train to Leavenworth, Washington to see the Christmas lighting ceremony the Bavarian-themed town performs...