Cities & Planning

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...

Big day for people who like symbolic victories !!

The "diligence" passenger cabin could be switched from horses to trains

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of transportation geography with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application.

Advertising is a type of ‘brain pollution’ says new ‘ministry’ campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency.

Industrial elegance on the Usk

(Terminal 5 and vicinity, photographed by Long Bach Nguyen) One major event of West Seattle significance is on the calendar for tonight: As previewed here earlier this month, it's the next step in reviewing/updating Seattle's policies regarding maritime and industrial lands. (See background on the process here.) West Seattle is home to a major ...

With over a year of Stay Healthy Streets and Café Streets, Seattleites have become accustomed and even approving of the pedestrianization and expanded use of our streets. But Seattle can go farther to create even more vibrant pedestrian environments, and regular night markets should be one route for street use expansion. Popular in East Asia