Cities & Planning

What is a Plant Guild? In nature, plants usually grow with companion species rather than in single species groups. When a person designs a planting system t ...

Want to try companion planting and plant guilds in your garden? Here is a guide to teach you how to do it.

Everything you need to know about setting up guilds in your permaculture garden.

If you want your garden to yield more crops with minimal effort, start planning for plant guilds. Find out how companion plants can help boost your garden.

Karluk's school only has a few months to meet a minimum of 10 students to qualify for state funding. Officials believe the answer lies in a social media ad.

70% of Americans would support a nationwide solar mandate on new homes according to a survey by CITE Research for Vivint Solar.

From urban farming to drones, innovation can help fill the gap between production and consumption

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows

Only China and the rich will benefit from this hasty transition to an all-electric future.

Safe street advocates in San Francisco are rebeling against robotaxis by placing traffic cones on their hoods to disable them.

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

An informational and educational resource guide covering American railroads. Learn more about what was like to experience America by rail.

Congestion pricing is just one way cities are actively engaged in reducing the number of cars and the amount of driving.

For most London-based politicians, there’s a threat that’s worse than Covid. You’ll begin to notice it as we ease out of lockdown. It’s not the Brazilian variant that keeps them awake at night, or collapsing hospitals. Nope. What really worries them is the thought of cars. Watch them pale as they mutter the words ‘car-led

Millions of Australians face the daily frustration of delayed commutes, particularly on busy motorways. But as governments spend billions continually upgrading roads, experts say that might not be the best solution.

EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year earlier. If that rate of growth continues, EVs will be 10% of the US car market by next year. Most people who own an EV charge it at home, using an EV […]

County leaders are looking for new ways to address the growing issue weeks after Camp Hope, once the state’s largest encampment, shuttered.

Mayor Bruce Harell announced Wednesday that one block of Pike Street, between First and Second Avenues, which has been rebuilt as part of the Seattle waterfront project as a curbless "shared street" intended to maintain through traffic, will remain closed to through vehicle traffic as a pilot while the city collects feedback and observes how

City dirty. Apply antiseptic liberally. The flexible hybrid schedules and the hit-and-miss Return to Office plans of major employers are hurting most cities’ central business districts. Most downtowns were built of stacked offices over coffee shops to maximize the investment return on having folks spend 71% of their days in a cubicle. Failing to draw

A new poll found 82% of voters don’t believe highway expansions are the best solution for reducing congestion. America runs on highway sprawl and car commercials, but ample reason exists to think most Americans are seeking a different way to tackle transportation and growth issues. A new national poll conducted by Hattaway Communications found overwhelming

A Seattle Neighborhood Greenways forum pushes the city to heed community-led efforts to remove cars from some streets. SDOT may finally be listening. During a public forum called “Pedestrianize This!” hosted by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways in April, Jeff Hou, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington, gave a talk about pedestrian-only streets

Anne Hidalgo will help pedestrians feel safer not with a crackdown on micromobility, but with a common-sense plan to take more away space from drivers.

It’s obvious how to make the roads safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers alike. We just don’t do it.

AtmosZero has developed an energy efficient, electrified boiler that New Belgium Brewing plans to install at its main facility next year.