Cities & Planning

Like many suburban American cities that saw major growth in the second half of the 20th century, Lynnwood lacks a defined central commercial area. Businesses are grouped instead as strip malls alon…

I once visited White Sands National Park in New Mexico, and even with sunglasses on, it was positively blinding. At least the sun goes down in New Mexico. Imagine being in the similarly all-white landscape of the Arctic during that time of the year where the sun sticks around 24-7.

Apps are telling us how to get around our cities faster. But if each person acts only in their own interest, society at large gets stuck in traffic.

Posted on Friday 26 Nov 2021. 1,173 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

BY DANIEL SJOHOLM Every day, scores of American teens celebrate their 16th birthdays, and, like clockwork, head off to the DMV in hopes of passing their driver’s test and getting their driver’s license. It’s a tradition as American as baseball and apple pie. After all, owning a car is all but necessary for life in America — it’s nearly impossible for many of us to even imagine how we would go about our day-to-day lives without access to one. But their ubiquity obscures the damage cars do to our

Some areas of British Columbia received as much rainfall in 24 to 36 hours as would normally fall in the entire month of November.

Rail advocates argue new lines will grow the economy, shrink mobility inequalities and help decarbonize the region.

As innovative models for reclamation unfold, and federal funding nears, there is new hope for the communities that once depended on coal mining.

I ran across this quote while reading about what makes Tokyo work as a city: A developed country is not a place where the poor ha

A citizens’ assembly tried to make policy -- and clashed with President Macron.

Consumers want, and governments demand, less of the non-biodegradable substance. These manufacturers are looking for alternatives.

I love this: the local recycling center in the town of Kamikatsu, Japan is itself made of recycled and upcycled materials. Most pr

We consulted architects and planners to create an achievable, replicable plan — one suited to a city embracing its public spaces as never before.

24,000 years of climate history, with our current warming being unique in the record.

An effort to generate energy along the Columbia through a concept called 'pumped storage' has drawn pushback from tribes and environmental groups.

Back in 2003, Kamikatsu, a town in Tokushima Prefecture, became Japan's first municipality to go zero waste, establishing a whopping 45 categories for recycling. Today, the village reuses about 80 percent of the garbage it generates, and the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center is at the forefront of the com

Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy.

Around the 17th century, the Dutch started reinforcing their dykes and harbours with sturdy mats the size of football pitches – hand-woven from thousands of twigs grown on nearby coppice plantations. These “fascine mattresses” were weighted with rocks and sunk into canals, estuaries, and rivers. This article contains many images and would be a 12.1 MB download from this website. Therefore, I kindly invite you to read the article on our solar powered website, where it has been compressed to 1.90 MB.

It was reported that Saudi Arabia wanted to build a science fiction movie in a northwestern part of the country. The city has been named Neom and the plan is not to have roads and cars and in general to operate energy but also in every aspect in a completely environmentally friendly way. The projectRead More

The Missing Link appellants have won! But not really. The Seattle Department of Transportation announced today that they are prepared to submit a significantly scaled-back version of their plans to…

The architecture of subtraction may be one of the greenest ways to build.

Google Earth Engine is now available to select customers in preview as a part of Google Cloud Platform.

Washington State officials are considering sites for a major secondary international airport to complement Sea-Tac International Airport.

From ABC News: The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water out of the air, and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices.The air-to-water systems work lik…

George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels. Above: George Cove stands next to his third solar array. Source: "Generating electricity by the sun's rays", Popular Electricity, Volume 2, nr. 12, April 1910, pp.793. More efficient, less sustainable Ever since Bell Labs presented the first practical solar PV panel in the 1950s, technological development has focused on reducing costs and increasing the efficiency of solar cells. According to these standards, researchers have made a lot of progress. The efficiency of solar panels increased from less than 5% in...