Cities & Planning

# If the Washington legislature is serious about setting tangible goals for Amtrak Cascades this year, now is the time to also restart the conversation on advancing east-west passenger rail service and connecting Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Yakima, Ellensburg, Auburn, and Seattle. All Aboard Washington is pushing for an amended version of HB 1837 setting eastward expansion goals.

The rolling rural Ozarks offers scenic beauty and a sense of solitude – great things, I bet most would agree, except when transportation is an

This story was originally published by North Carolina Health News. When Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina, it downed power lines,

Humanity needs to create climate control.

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Here, we explore actionable policies and strategies that challenge the conventional pursuit of economic growth, focusing instead on enhancing …

Hannah Leigh Mackie explores how food sovereignty is key to creating the living food systems which work for both people and planet

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# While Seattle has cycled through carshare startups, Vancouver's Evo carshare program has grown into a big success, aided by strong transit and less competition from ridehailing in British Columbia.

# As Sound Transit builds the largest light rail expansion in the country, splitting the system into urban and suburban lines could unlock its full potential and queue up logical extensions.

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Farmers in the USA are waking up to the benefits of keeping sheep on solar farms, but Europe’s been doing this for ages.

Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But behind her secret to the perfect plot lay other secrets and other plots.

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A Peek Inside France's TGV M, the Modular Train Setting a New Standard for High-Speed Rail (This post may have already landed in your inbox. I've made some updates, and welcomed some new arrivals from Substack, so I'm sending out a new version. I've tried to make sure it's not

We’ve all seen the ads. Some offer “free” solar panels. Others promise nearly free energy if you just purchase a solar — well, solar system doesn’t sound right —…

Food and Country: trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches across political and social divides to report on the country's broken food system and the innovators risking everything to transform it.

About 76% of incorporated places have fewer than 5,000 people and about a third of those have less than 500 people.

In the US, public transit is often organized at the county level, so the service ends where the county does. There are countless situations like this, where two significant cities are 20-80 miles apart with a county line separating them:       If transit is provided by county-level agencies, the service in this situation […]

# Nearly a dozen tool libraries are operating in the Puget Sound region and Kirkland is aiming to join the club. Here's what tool libraries add to communities.

“Solar is winning.”

When “YIMBYs” first appeared on the scene, it appeared to many as though they had come out of the blue. But it turns out YIMBYism is part of a long American tradition.

People want to run EV charging stations as a business, but could you sell gasoline for $4/gallon if almost everybody has a $1/gallon filling station at home?

Landed in Tokyo. I do not know the day of the week or why it’s still dark outside.

It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of gentrification in cities. To demonstrate, for the Washington Post, Marissa Lang and John Harden analyzed D.C. house images from Google…

# The 3-2 vote in committee sets up a final decision later this month, but the Port of Seattle is suggesting they may take legal action against the move.

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In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public transit, whereas in others, access is limited. Aniket Kali and Jeff Allen mapped rail transit on population density and the…

Eversource is building the country's first gas utility-led networked geothermal system in Framingham. Environmentalists hope it can be a model for other gas utilities to wean themselves off of fossil fuels.