Cities & Planning

If you travel around Capitol Hill, the Central District, and Madison Valley, you’ve likely seen construction on E Madison Street in preparation for King County Metro Transit’s RapidRide…

RapidRide G Line will have lots of capacity during the day, but evenings and connections get dicey. Next year, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and King County Metro will cut the rib…

It ain’t much, but that’s all the Board’s going on too. This week, the Sound Transit Board of Directors will be deciding on preferred Ballard Link alignments and station locations…

Floating solar panels are an emerging concept, promising as well. Both developed and developing countries are planning to invest in the same.

When interest rates go up, the price of bonds goes down. As Tyler and I discuss in Modern Principles, the inverse relationship between interest rates and prices holds for any asset that pays out over time. In particular, as Patrick McKenzie points out, when interest rates go up, the value of a loan goes down. […]

A single Nanogrid from Sesame Solar can power up to six homes.

SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa -- Against the backdrop of rising energy prices due to the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a workshop that teaches peopl

Hundreds of millions of people lack access to safe water and sanitation. Will the first UN conference on water in nearly 50 years make a difference?

Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away at a tree, holding opposite ends of a huge, human-length saw. That is a vintage crosscut saw. Some avid crosscut seekers spend hours mining websites like eBay and Craigslist. But they also search in person on saw hunting

Transition Network encourage communities to come together and rebuild our world. Step up and address the big challenges we face by starting local.

On March 7, the Woodinville City Council held its first of four meetings with Cascadia Consulting Group, a firm the city is working with to draft...

A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Earlier this month, Kyneton opened the taps on a $7.5 million recycled water upgrade to its regional treatment plant.

Panels on reservoirs can keep enough water for 300 million people from evaporating.

About 80% of the energy requirements of a fully electrified society with heat pumps everywhere possible already exist. Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro and geothermal primary energy sources.

Kenya’s government plans to build 137 solar minigrids across remote locations in the East African country. The project received $150 million in funding from the World Bank.

This weekend King County Metro starts service on the RapidRide H line, running between Downtown Seattle and Burien. The seventh RapidRide line and the first launched since the RapidRide F in 2014, …

Flatiron Building in New York is coming up for auction soon. I learned about that when I posted a photo of the Flatiron Building being constructed on a social network. It triggered a chain of thoug…

There is no spine. There is no Ballard to West Seattle extension. There is no one coming to save us. By 2042, Seattle should have four Link light rail lines covering downtown and branching out to R…

The United States has experienced a wide variety of extreme weather over the last 125 years, impacting people, communities, and geographies. Track monthly data on how counties experience severe weather, including precipitation and temperature.

The split shows that much of the South, and rural America, could ditch fossil fuels easier than big cities and the coasts.

A long-planned street revamp in downtown Seattle made headlines this month when a group of preservation advocates, many aligned with Pike Place Market, pushed back on the planned removal of two row…

Concrete is the defining material of the Anthropocene and takes a terrible toll on the climate. Martha Henriques goes in search of the ways it could be better for the climate.

Green-blue urban grids make cities sustainable, resilient and climate-proof. This website will help to find fitting measures and inspires with attractive examples.