Sunday Video: New York Is Building a Wall to Hold Back the Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9asEJokafM
New York City has plans for a new sea wall on Staten Island. The sea wall is in response to the global climate emergency...
Puget Sound Leaders Not Ready to Hit Brakes on Highway Expansion
Even in the face of ambitious greenhouse gas emissions goals that remain out-of-reach, elected leaders in central Puget Sound aren't ready to rethink the...
HB 1099 Fails: Legislators Let the Clock Run Out on Climate and Housing Action
The final chapter of HB 1099, a bill that would have updated Washington State's Growth Management Act (GMA) to address pressing needs like the...
Envisioning an I-5 Lid in the U District
Lid I-5 hosted a charrette on September 16th dedicated to sketching out a design for a freeway lid on the stretch of Interstate 5...
Save the Trees, Build Urban Housing!
My journey to urbanism took a twisted path. I grew up in rural Kitsap County, studied forest ecology, and worked in the woods of...
Shoreline To Hold Spring-Summer Green Building Speaker Series
The City of Shoreline is kicking off a speaker series next month that will focus on green building. Topics that speakers will hit on...
Newcastle Mayor Pushed to Scrub Climate Change, Equity from City’s Growth Plan
Newcastle Mayor Robert Clark pushed to remove references to promoting racial and social equity as "vague," "subjective," and "irrelevant," and called climate change "subjective." Many of his recommendations were adopted by the Newcastle Planning Commission.
Meetup Video: May 2021 with Sam Assefa
https://youtu.be/sagR5Hd6i-4
Sam Assefa joined for the May meetup as out guest speaker. Assefa formerly served as Director of the Seattle Office of Planning and Community...