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15 Green Cities		19 Jul 2007	Main Dish
These metropolises aren't literally the greenest places on earth -- they're not necessarily dense with foliage, for one, and some still have a long way to go down the path to sustainability. But all of the cities on this list deserve recognition for making impressive strides toward eco-friendliness, helping their many millions of residents live better, greener lives. If your favorite green city didn't make the list, tell us why it deserves recognition in the comment ...
Topics: Chicago, lists, London, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, urban planning, Vancouver (all these topics)

Music to Our Ears Music festivals across the country aim to lessen their footprint	Sarah van Schagen	03 Jul 2007	Arts and Minds
Bonnaroo 2006. Photo: Sarah van Schagen. I'm sitting in the middle of a field in rural Tennessee, and it feels like it's got to be 110 degrees out. Somehow I've forgotten about my sweat-lined brow and muddy shoes; instead, I'm focused on listening to Bonnaroo's head press guy, Ken Weinstein of Big Hassle Media, talk about the music festival's ongoing efforts to put on a greener ...
Topics: Bonnaroo, Chicago, green living, music, Seattle (all these topics)

Spit on Polish Community advocates focus on dangers of nail salons		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Spit on Polish Community advocates focus on dangers of nail salons They say a rising tide lifts all boats, and the rising tide of eco-awareness is now lifting ... nail salons. The fume-filled shops are getting attention from groups eager to expose their health risks, which can include cancer and birth defects. The U.S. EPA has given two Seattle-area nonprofits a $100,000 grant for a three-year "Toxic Beau ...
Topics: green living, health, news, Seattle, toxics (all these topics)

Alterna Live Earth show More rockin' for the planet	Katy Balatero	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Seattleites, take note: For anyone not willing to stand on an ice floe in subzero temperatures or pony up the cash to make it out to one of the other Live Earth concerts, you have another option. Local public-radio darling KEXP is hosting a benefit concert on July 7, 2007, to raise funds for the Shoreline Solar Project. The project promotes the use of solar energy and has installed solar photovoltaic systems in a couple of local schools. Part of the show will be st ...
Topics: green living, music, Seattle, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

More of what bike-friendly looks like Blue lanes, cage locks, and cyclibraries	Alan Durning	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Separate bikeways are the lead actors in bike-friendly cities, but many supporting actors complete the cast: bikes on transit facilities, good traffic law enforcement, even bike 'lifts' on steep hills. Three more worth mentioning are blue lanes, parking cages, and cyclibraries. Blue lanes. (Photo courtesy of Jayson Antonoff, International Sustainable Solutions.) My youngest son often bikes to drama rehearsals. It's about three miles from our home in Seattle, ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

What "bike friendly" looks like Is your town?	Alan Durning	19 May 2007	Gristmill
What if cities had no sidewalks and everyone walked on the road? Or, for urban recreation, they walked on a few scenic trails? What if the occasional street had a three-foot-wide 'walking lane' painted on the asphalt, between the moving cars and the parked ones? Well, for starters, no one would walk much. A hardy few might brave the streets, but most would stop at 'walk?! in traffic?!' Fortunately, this car-head vision is fiction for most pedestrians, but it's not ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, Portland, Seattle, urban planning, Vancouver (all these topics)

Paul Hawken and Blessed Unrest What would you like to ask him?	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Tomorrow, I'm sitting down for a chat with Paul Hawken, author, entrepreneur, and environmental legend. We'll be discussing, among other things, his new book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. (If you're in Seattle tomorrow, you can see Hawken at a Grist-sponsored event at Town Hall.) If you've got questions you'd like me to ask Hawken, let me know in comments. In the meantime, here's the introductio ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, politics, Seattle, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Is the SkyTrain the limit? Making public transit work	Clark Williams-Derry	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Greater Vancouver leads the Northwest in transit ridership, with somewhere between two and three times as many annual bus and train rides per person as Portland and Seattle. So the obvious question: How come? Why does Vancouver do so much better in transit statistics than its southern neighbors?If you're from Seattle, the "obvious" answer might seem to be Vancouver's SkyTrain light rail system, which carries about 66 million passengers each year. Se ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, Portland, public transportation, Seattle, Vancouver (all these topics)

Friday rush hour fun Critical Mass Seattle style	biodiversivist	14 May 2007	Gristmill
I participated in my first Critical Mass ride a few Fridays ago. I thought I'd better post on it and get this photo out of my cell phone. Can you spot the guy with no pants on? There was also a dude with a drum on his handlebars and someone else with a nice sound system on a trailer. I'm guessing that there were about 300 riders. At first, everyone just gathers into a big crowd. Some young bucks (trying to impress the chicks with bike tricks) provided impromptu en ...
Topics: Seattle, green living, bikes, cars (all these topics)

Social engineering, Soviet style There's more to freedom than free parking	Eric de Place	08 May 2007	Gristmill
I keep seeing the phrase "social engineering" used to describe policies that don't kowtow to the car. See, for example, this inexplicable subhead about a third of the way through this Seattle newspaper story. Not only is this usage annoying, it's exactly backward (as others have noted before me). First, let's look first at specifics. The paper reports that the city will put parking meters on some formerly-free spots in a rapidly urbanizing district near do ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, Seattle, urban planning (all these topics)

Biodiesel positive feedback loop Biodiesel rage	biodiversivist	08 May 2007	Gristmill
From the Seattle PI: More than 1,300 people -- some shouting 'revolution' -- took over Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center on Sunday. Look what's happening out in the streets, they said: Biodiesel is coming of age. It's all the rage. Part trade show, part strategy session, part cheerleading camp, the fifth annual NW Biodiesel Forum brought together biodiesel enthusiasts to learn about peak oil, alternative fuels, mass transit and, in a wrap-up discussion, 'Bio ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, green living, Seattle (all these topics)

Putting a price on congestion Realizing that freeways are not free	Eric de Place	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Every once in a while there's a truth that everybody knows, but that no one will acknowledge. And when someone finally says it aloud, it sounds shocking. Like this: ... what we're doing now isn't working. Not for drivers, taxpayers or the environment. We can't tax and build our way out of this. That's Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat in his column this week, talking about what most people in Seattle already know: the area's freeway system is flat broke an ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, Seattle, urban planning (all these topics)

Hey, Seattleites: Chat about climate with Jay Inslee and friends Catch a climate symposium at Town Hall on May 9	Lisa Hymas	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Rep. Jay Inslee, Democrat from Washington's 1st congressional district and a clean-energy champion, will be discussing climate change with other local eco-experts (and with the audience) at Seattle's Town Hall on May 9. Additional smart folks at the Symposium on Climate Policy, presented by the Thomas C. Wales Foundation, will include Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day and president of the Bullitt Foundation; K.C. Golden of Climate Solutions; Ben Pac ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, energy, Jay Inslee, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

Step It Up Seattle: Part II Photos and voices from Step It Up 2007 rallies across the U.S.	Chris Schults	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
As promised, albeit a few days late, we've published an audio slideshow of Step It Up Seattle, which also includes some photos from other Step It Up events from around the country. For post Step It Up 2007 action, check out the national website. Grist would like to produce more multimedia content in the future, so please let us know what you think in comments.
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, Seattle, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Lists A couple	David Roberts	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Here are two lists, for those of you into that kind of thing: First, Sustainlane -- which seems to produce a list every few weeks, no? -- has a list of the Top Ten Cities for Renewable Energy. That's the cities that provide citizens with the most green power. They are: 1. Oakland, CA 2. Sacramento/SF/San Jose, CA (tie) 3. Portland, OR 4. Boston, MA 5. San Diego, CA 6. Austin, TX 7. Los Angeles, CA 8. Minneapolis, MN 9. Seattle, WA 10. Chicago, IL Oaklan ...
Topics: cars, Chicago, energy, green living, placemaking, Portland, renewable energy, San Francisco, Seattle (all these topics)

A convenient truth In nearby Bothell	Clark Williams-Derry	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Seattle Times is reporting on a Bothell family -- the Fraleys -- who are attempting to cut their family's greenhouse-gas emissions by 15 percent in May. Bully for them, and best of luck! Still, there's something about the Times account of their experiment that rankles, just a bit. It leaves a casual reader with the impression that reducing carbon emissions is a total pain in the behind. To wit: [The Fraleys] will try to reduce the household's greenhou ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

Olympic Gold Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park brings nature to a city setting	Sarah van Schagen	17 Apr 2007	Arts and Minds
Alexander Calder's Eagle against an Olympic mountain backdrop. Photo: iotae via flickr I've never seen the Pacific Northwest. I mean, I live in Seattle, and I look around, but I've never really seen it. I came to this realization while walking the zig-zagged trail at Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park with Grist mascot Chip Giller and two OSP guides. It took nearly the entire tour ...
Topics: art, green living, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Step It Up Seattle Local and federal leaders step it up	Chris Schults	14 Apr 2007	Gristmill
As reported by KING5.com (video), more than 1,000 people took part in Step It Up Seattle, which began at Occidental Park in downtown Seattle and ended in Myrtle Edwards Park where a rally and solutions fair commenced. Many Grist staff members were present, and took pictures and chatted with local Grist readers. My job was to record brief audio interviews with some of the participants. Early in the week, we plan to share these photos and recordings with you. For ...
Topics: grassroots activism, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

A minister, a congressman, and a student activist walk into a climate rally Don't forget to Step It Up tomorrow	Clark Williams-Derry	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This was posted by my colleague Madeline Ostrander at our mothership blog, but I thought it belonged on Gristmill as well. What do Washington Congressional Rep. Jay Inslee, the AFL-CIO, a car-sharing company, and a radio DJ have in common? What about swimmers doing a polar bear dip in the Willamette River, a Unitarian Church, and Portland Commissioner Eric Sten? They and thousands of others are, for the first time in history, united on climate change. Foun ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

Getting a jump on waterfront property speculation Use Google Maps to simulate rising sea levels anywhere in the world	Corey McKrill	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
One of the most memorable scenes in An Inconvenient Truth is when Al Gore makes the sea level rise 20 feet and inundate various low-lying regions of the world, including Manhattan and Florida. It was suitably squirm-inducing, especially if the viewer happened to live in one of the areas shown. For the rest of us, or at least for me, however, the lingering question has been, "what would it look like where I live?" Now, thanks to Google's mapping API and the in ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Seattle (all these topics)

Child's Play Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids?	Sarah van Schagen	16 Mar 2007	Main Dish
The planet's future is up to you, kids ... but no pressure. Photo: Sarah van Schagen Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? Lisa Shimizu thinks so. Over the past few months, Shimizu has been developing a version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow that would be easily understood by and engaging for children. After testing it out on captive audiences ranging from her 8-year-old daughter Aya to a cl ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, education, Seattle (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: Cary Moon She prefers a 'people's waterfront'	David Roberts	12 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Seattle is facing a difficult decision: what to do with a crumbling highway that serves as a major north-south corridor through the city? Below, we hear from Cary Moon. Cary is a landscape and urban designer and co-founder of the People's Waterfront Coalition. The PWC's No-Highway option won second prize in a national design competition sponsored by Metropolis magazine, called 'Next Generation: Big Idea.' ----- Faced with a maddening choice between two miserable hi ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: Erica C. Barnett She says no and hell no	David Roberts	11 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Seattle is facing a difficult decision: what to do with a crumbling highway that serves as a major north-south corridor through the city? Below, we hear from Erica C. Barnett. Erica is the senior news writer for Seattle's alternative newsweekly, The Stranger, where she covers City Hall and transportation, writes a weekly politics column, and serves on the paper's editorial board. She also has a blog. ----- Voters in Seattle are being asked to take up-or-down ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: A mini-series Because local transportation choices aren't local any more	David Roberts	11 Mar 2007	Gristmill
As Bradley noted below, the citizens of Seattle face a dilemma. The Alaskan Way Viaduct -- an elevated highway that enters Seattle on its west flank, offering stunning views (to drivers) of the city and the waterfront -- is falling apart. There's real danger that an earthquake, or just Father Time, could send it tumbling down, along with lots of cars. Nobody wants that. That's where the consensus ends. The question is: what should we do about it? In some sense th ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Testing a city's commitment to green Seattle's choice between a freeway and climate change	Bradley Meacham	11 Mar 2007	Gristmill
When a city has to choose between sustaining car culture and pursuing environmental goals, which wins? That's the question facing Seattle in the next several days as residents return ballots in an all-mail election over how to replace a dangerous waterfront viaduct freeway. The city enjoys a relatively green reputation (even local Toyota TV commercials tell us so). And the mayor has gained a national reputation talking about the need to curb climate change. Yet ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

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