Environment & Sustainability

Seattle Advances Energy Code Updates Aimed at Curbing Carbon Emissions

Seattle is looking to significantly cut the environmental impact of its new commercial and residential buildings with the adoption of the 2018 Seattle Energy...

Montlake SR-520 Expansion Contract Comes in $30 Million Over Budget

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will pay a contracting firm $455 million to complete the next phase of freeway expansion through central Seattle:...

Passive(haus) Aggressive Incentives Could Jumpstart Green Building

As Seattle’s economy adapts to the crisis of the global pandemic, our city still faces pressures of a growing population. Articles have littered the...

FAST Act Makes Slow Progress

The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...

Sunday Video: Walkable Cities

Jeff Speck highlights how Portland shifted its priorities in the 1970s to contain urban growth and invest in walking and cycling. The Walkable City discusses the importance of cities...
A photo of children holding signs that demand action to fight climate change.

Former AIA Seattle Executive Director on Experiencing COP26

A bank of photojournalists lining the platform, their cameras a symphony of clicking and whirring. Bagpipes squeezing out a mournful tune. Protestors pressing forward, signs in...
two trains at a station with little glass orbs sculpture overhead

Sound Transit Prepares to Unpause Nine Project Actions and Moves to Surplus Angle Lake...

On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met to decide on the fate of more than a dozen paused capital project actions. Nine...

Visions of a Green Future for Battery Street

Recharge the Battery is working hard to ensure that the Battery Street Tunnel sites are transformed into much needed green space for Belltown.  As the...