Sunday Video: Why So Many New Buildings Are Covered in Rectangles

https://youtu.be/Ml-ZP-_e_o4 Vox explores why so many new buildings seem to prominently feature rectangular panels as exterior cladding.

Protected Bike Lanes Guard Cyclists from Pollution

As a relatively new cyclist and resident of South Seattle, the recent The Urbanist piece about the downgrading of protected bike lanes frustrated me. The...

Olympia Passes Housing Bills Advancing Cross Laminated Timber, Homeless Funding, and WSCC Lodging Tax

Housing policy was a big issue during the 2018 legislative session in Olympia. Washington legislators considered dozens of housing-related bills, including bills to end...

Map Of The Week: Is My Neighborhood Toxic?

The number may shock you, but Washington state has identified over 12,300 toxic sites. Many of these are likely right in your backyard. While half...
Fremont rooftops with a haze of smoke over and sun barely poking through.

Cascadia Needs to Change Its Ways to Keep from Burning Up

A week of forest fires and skies choked with toxic smoke was a sobering reminder of the fragility of our environment. An incredible amount of...

Sunday Video: The Trains That Killed An Italian Airline

Not Just Bikes explores how high-speed rail in Italy killed off an entire airline and tries it out firsthand. Not Just Bikes also explains...

Mid-Session Check-In on Equitable and Sustainable Legislation

With a short legislative session, Democrats and Republicans have been moving swiftly to get bills through the legislative process. Several major bills affecting environmental...

Urbanizing the Economy

In a previous article, I wrote about vertical farming and the technology’s ability to urbanize agriculture. Vertical farming facilitates the urbanization of agriculture with...