Cities & Planning

Part of a series of responses while taking a course by the Institute for Social Ecology: "Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics".

Turning your perfectly unnatural (yet impressively green) lawn into an imperfectly wild(ish) piece of land requires a little time and energy at first. And then...a lot less mowing.

What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consiste…

King County Metro is back with its next phase of the Lynnwood Link bus restructure process. The proposal focuses on feeding riders to new stations opening as part of the light rail extension and co…

On Monday, Senator Maria Cantwell’s office announced that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been selected to receive over $25 million from the U.S. Department of Transportat…

By Eriko Shrestha and Tianyi Sun   There is extraordinary excitement today over “green” hydrogen produced by using renewable electricity to split the hydrogen atoms from water molecules (remember, the H in H2O is hydrogen). But can it live up to the silver-bullet hype?  Evidence indicates that

On a quiet weekday in November, daily passengers at the Washington State Ferries’ Colman Dock stopped using a makeshift terminal to board ferries to Bremerton and Bainbridge Island and instea…

Eagles! Cormorants! Fish! And New Parks!

Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now

Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.

One of the less sustainable aspects of transitioning to EVs is that building them requires the mining of metals and minerals such as lithium.

They’re smart, high tech—and possibly determining the future of diplomacy.

The French Alpine town was offered a quirky alternative and turned it down. Even in the United States, there was a point in the early 20th Century where most American cities and small towns had tra…

Creating a task force to study progressive taxes is a great idea! But we don't have to wait for their recommendations to act, nor should we.

Although voters like public services, they detest paying taxes. To cover the resulting budget deficits, we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars each year from other countries, loans that must be repaid in full with interest. Deficits also erode savings,...

The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.

Tacoma has a major extension of Sound Transit’s T Line streetcar to look forward to over the coming year: the Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension (HTLE). But this past year saw the loss of a small yet me…

These community centers, powered by green energy, provide resources during extreme weather and double as gathering spaces during calmer times.

By implementing priority budgeting, Pittsburgh put its existing resources to work for climate.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes created a community-led climate plan to manage and protect their land.

A new study highlights the incentive for food producers to repurpose food waste – by turning it into useful chemicals and sustainable fuels

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Tripling the global output of lithium by 2050 just for the U.S. would ensure horrifying environmental costs.

Senator William Soules has filed SB 77, which states that all new homes must have an EV plug, and requires one watt of solar per square foot of heated home space.

Researchers at the University of I llinois Urbana-Champaign have successfully demonstrated efficient geothermal heat storage while simultaneously repurposing an abandoned oil and gas well.