Cities & Planning

# A trove of documents obtained from City of Seattle through public disclosure requests shows work is proceeding gradually but steadily inside the transportation department to take advantage of Washington State's new Shared Streets Law. Pedestrianizing a number of streets could be around the corner.

# Precinct-level results maps show that Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson's path to victory ran through Capitol Hill, the Central District, and the Rainier Valley, where she ran up her vote share.

# Corridor-wide bus revamps have been hitting delays and are often taking ten years to deliver, or more. A new King County Metro report released this fall outlines the myriad reasons RapidRide lines fall behind, as the overall program faces an uncertain future.

We tested and analyzed the output of six food recycler machines against their environmental claims.

One Brooklyn business has seen the future of safe streets and heavy lugging — and it's going to be O-KEI!

Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.

MIT researchers designed a device that quickly recovers drinking water from an atmospheric water harvesting material. The system uses ultrasonic waves to shake the water out of the material, recovering water in minutes.

Robotaxis are poised to further close the delta between suburbs and the city; the city (and Uber) might never recover.

# Already under scrutiny for potential violations of state housing law, the city of Clyde Hill's new restrictions make its middle housing code one of the most restrictive in the state.

As part of a city-wide urban greening program, Taipei turned an abandoned football stadium into a community garden. Here’s an overview of the terraced garden that’s taken over Zhongshan Soccer Stadium from James Stewart on Instagram. A coupl

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It is unusual to have a utility-scale solar array in Kentucky, and even more unusual that the

A British startup claims to have a carbon capture technique that sucks up most of a ship’s emissions. The challenge is scaling it

"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

The herbivore’s return to Yellowstone national park is restoring ancient patterns and reshaping the landscape from the ground up

I sit at the lunch table knowing my food is getting cold, too busy writing to eat. My two table mates are eager to tell me their stories. They are both

Native chefs are redefining their foodways, blending pre- and post-Colonial ingredients into a cuisine that’s as innovative as it is ancestral.

This article is co-authored by Joost Jongerden & Necmettin Türk How a grassroots revolution in northern Syria is redefining democracy, ecology, and decolonization from the ground up. When the Syrian civil war fractured the authority of the central state, a new kind of revolution took root in the country’s north. In the Kurdish-majority regions known […]

Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down what’s actually going to change EVs and what’s just a dream.

Australia has so much rooftop solar power that some states are offering free electricity during peak hours: TechCrunch: For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. Now that investment is paying off. The Australian government announced this week that electricity customers in three states will get free electricity for up […]

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Economists have this idea that we live in an efficient market, but it’s hard to fathom that when disposable vapes are equipped with rechargeable lithium cells. Still, just as market economist…

A groundbreaking report from Washington State University (WSU) researchers suggests that integrating solar power with agricultural practices, known as "agrivolt

Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

With the completion of the open source Seed Eco-Home, and the final step of selling the house on the open market – we can now offer a number of ways that you can build or acquire a Seed Eco-Home. But let’s talk about solving housing first. The problem is an under-supply of housing. This is […]

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The Volts podcast continues to be my favorite listen. Climate change will wreak ever more havoc on the world, that’s just baked in. But the transition to clean energy is also now baked in. Da…

Once considered the domain of urban tech hubs and university labs, makerspaces have quietly found fertile ground in rural communities. These collaborative