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The glorified charcoal is rare on American farms, yet it has become a focal point in the movement to make agriculture a climate solution.

Waste flushed into Puget Sound harms fish and marine life. A nutrient pricing system — like WA's cap-and-trade program — may curb pollution.

Generators are expensive pieces of equipment. You can get a small low-quality model for a few hundred dollars, but powerful high-quality generators cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Old cars, on the other hand, can be very cheap — especially if they aren’t roadworthy anymore. Jake von Slatt has a video series […]

One in four Seattle blocks lack sidewalks, but a new bill would require that significant repaving projects add or repair them. In 2016, after the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) repaved a long stretch of Greenwood Avenue N in North Seattle, between N 112th Street and N 125th Street, road users were left with an

The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it took a relative newcomer and architectural outsider to dream up. The making of this future world heritage landmark is a tale for the ages — a cautionary tale, for which we turn to Tim Harford, producer

pStrong Towns’ critique of America’s car-centric sprawl sounds appealing. But its proposed solutions rely on a conservative politics that prioritizes ‘wealth creation’ over just and equitable urban planning./p

Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.

A look at the four-year legal battle over a sidewalk between a Midtown Reno property owner and a local transportation agency.

Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?

What capitalism's inevitable collapse, disaster anarchism, mutual aid, and human nature can teach us about the curious concept of Utopia.

The four-acre farm near Woodinville expands the work of the Black Farmers Collective to develop shared resources and solutions.

Montreal's Mont-Royal Is Scrolling Back to 1876—and That's a Good Thing.

The creation of a wildlife reserve with an Indigenous community in one part of Kenya has paid dividends, for animals and people alike

America’s urban woes aren’t limited to the West Coast, of course. But the decline there has generally been steeper than elsewhere. Why? How

We can already see fires start from space, soon after they start. Here’s why we don’t yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.

In this CityNerd video, Ray Delahanty tackled the various bell and whistles traffic engineers use on street crossings so as to not provide actually safe streets. From Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFB) to High-intensity Activated Walk (HAWK) signals, traffic engineers have a plethora of acronym-based interventions that largely do not seem up to the task

Until We Have to Make Them a Reality.

Turns Out You Don't Have to Be Chicago-Sized to Have Rail Rapid Transit

Except, of Course, for the One You Happen to Own.

"General Motors Killed America's Streetcars"—Right? Not so Fast...

From the ID.Buzz to an electric Miata

Eielson Air Force Base will get some of its energy from a small nuclear reactor that's scheduled to go online in 2027.

For the second time, a group of Minneapolis residents—enabled by existing law—have halted implementation of the city’s Minneapolis 2040 plan over its supposed environmental impact. Here’s why they’re doing more harm than good.

This is the first installment in a three-part series.

A fully autonomous bus is now in regular service in Scotland.  It still has employees, two in fact, but that’s part of the process of testing the technology. Eventually, if this technology works out, the point will be to run buses with no employees on board. In wealthy countries, the cost of running a bus […]

If passed, the ordinance would also raise minimum wage county employees, contractors, to $18.99/hour.

Agriculture is responsible for roughly a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gases but a new analysis says it could become carbon negative.