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Seattle climatepalooza Big climate haps in the Emerald City	David Roberts	24 Mar 2006	Gristmill
It's been a pretty extraordinary couple of days here in Seattle -- "climatepalooza," as Mayor Greg Nickels jokingly dubbed it. Yesterday I went to a small private luncheon with Seattle's movers and shakers. The purpose was to honor both the Green Ribbon Commission's work and visiting author Elizabeth Kolbert. I got to meet the mayor, who was genial and optimistic, reinforcing my sense that he's a bit of a Forrest Gump figure in all this. He got a good id ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

A proud day for Seattle	David Roberts	24 Mar 2006	Gristmill
I just came from a press conference wherein Seattle mayor Greg Nickels unveiled the recommendations of his Green Ribbon Commission on Climate Protection. This is the first big step in Seattle's attempt to comply with Kyoto -- a mission which, via Nickels' U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, now involves some 219 cities (and counting). I'll have more to say about this event and some others in the past week shortly. For now I just wanted to share something said by ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Why don't more people carpool or take public transit? Is convenience the drug that salves commuting guilt?	Chris Schults	13 Mar 2006	Gristmill
I sometimes catch the bus at the busy Fremont intersection of 34th and Fremont here in Seattle. I'd estimate that at least 90 percent of the vehicles heading west over the Fremont Bridge have one occupant. This, of course, frustrates me to no end. Here are all these people heading in the same general direction, at the same time. I've often wanted to stand on the side of the road with a sign that reads, 'Your car seats four, why are you driving alone?' So, why are ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Green mayors and red queens	Clark Williams-Derry	09 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Apropos of the recent climate shindig in Montreal, the Seattle P-I reports on the Seattle mayor's decision to roll his own Kyoto by setting CO2 reduction goals for the city. To me, the thing that's most noteworthy here is the admission that, if greenhouse-gas emissions are really going to fall in a city like Seattle, a lot of the reduction will have to come from the transportation sector. Seattle's electric utility is already climate neutral, at least nomina ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Unnatural Disasters Which parts of the U.S. have put themselves in nature's way?	Erica Gies, Katharine Wroth	18 Nov 2005	Main Dish
By Erica Gies and Katharine Wroth 18 Nov 2005 Map: NationalAtlas.gov 1. Uneven Ground The bad news: Much of Seattle's downtown has been built on landfill and other unsteady ground, which can turn to liquid during earthquakes. The last quake here, in 2001, was deep, but a shallower one could cause this liquefaction, threatening residents and landmarks like the train station, football stadium, and (gasp!) Starbucks HQ ...
Topics: land degradation, Seattle, United States (all these topics)

Unnatural Disasters Which parts of the U.S. have put themselves in nature's way?	Erica Gies, Katharine Wroth	18 Nov 2005	Main Dish
By Erica Gies and Katharine Wroth 18 Nov 2005 It's easy to see in hindsight. Yes, Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster, but it was aided by some very unnatural factors -- developed wetlands and neglected levees, to name two. Figuring there must be other parts of the U.S. in human-made peril, we talked with experts to learn where we've made ourselves most vulnerable, and what -- in lieu of scrapping the whole cou ...
Topics: land degradation, Seattle, United States (all these topics)

Bad signs Seattle's waste dump is an example of how not to do things	biodiversivist	09 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Because I live so close to it, I take an interest in how well Seattle's north-end waste transfer/recycling station is run (as if that is not obvious by now, this being my third and, thankfully, last post on the subject). The Wallingford neighborhood in which it is located is known for its tolerant, liberal-minded denizens, which explains why, in addition to the waste transfer station, the city has also placed numerous mental halfway houses and drug rehab centers there ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Secret hazardous waste site Biodiversivist	biodiversivist	07 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Word has it that the city of Seattle is planning to expand its north-end transfer station (garbage relay pit) to include a recycling center. They intend to invoke imminent domain on the old bakery just to the east of the existing facility. I surely hope their plans include a better way to collect hazardous waste.Today, if you want to get rid of your hazardous waste you must first make an appointment, which means you will also have to find the appropriate phone numbe ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Brazil/Seattle	biodiversivist	29 Oct 2005	Gristmill
One easy way to get rid of a tire is to toss it over a bridge. In Costa Rica, crocodiles can be seen sunning themselves amid thousands of discarded tires. Not an option here in Seattle where stopping on a bridge long enough to hurl a tire will cause a traffic jam. I took a load of junk to Seattle's north end transfer station the other day. An employee was standing at the entrance to brief clientele on Seattle's new recycling ordinance. Apparently, it is no longer ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Hack in the saddle again Are smoking bans fair?	Katharine Wroth	15 Sep 2005	Gristmill
Well, I'd subject you to more TV updates, but I actually went out last night and had a life. Which involved being in a smoke-filled bar for several hours. Which got me to thinking ... yuck. Seattle's one of the country's healthiest cities, yet it's only just now getting around to considering a smoking-ban referendum. If the effort passes, Seattle will join the growing list of cities (Boston, Minneapolis), states (California, Delaware), and even countries (Ireland, N ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Seattle (all these topics)

Now that's good wood Ad features naked men and phallic-shaped sustainable lumber	Lisa Hymas	26 Jul 2005	Gristmill
Imagine my delight at seeing this on the side of my bus: 'Choose your wood responsibly,' beckons the ad for Seattle's Environmental Home Center, a mecca for green home improvement. (See the full ad in PDF form here.)
Topics: green building, messaging, Seattle, sex (all these topics)

City ecosystems Attempts to introduce new species to city ecosystems are often doomed to failure.	biodiversivist	22 Jul 2005	Gristmill
An article in Pacific Northwest Magazine discussing Seattle's recurrent Canada goose problems got me thinking. Cities are primarily for people, and they have their own microenvironments. Some animals and plants thrive inside these ecosystems, and some do not. Creatures that can live among us already do. Attempts to introduce other species to please our sensibilities will more often than not turn into expensive failures or chronic damage-control exercises.Another examp ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place Seattle is pioneering programs to cut landfill costs by stopping trash before it starts, pursuing an ambitious long-term goal of becoming a "zero-waste" city. Seattle Public Utilities is using more electronic documents, radically reducing its use of paper, and instit ...
Topics: environmental planning, green living, health, news, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

LED stoplights, solar-powered camera, action! Mayors meet at that other Sundance for greener cities	Andy Brett	14 Jul 2005	Gristmill
Mayors from over 45 cities met this week in Sundance -- Sundance, Utah, that is -- to brainstorm on ways to make their cities greener and build on the momentum created by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels' recent initiative to cut cities' greenhouse emissions, which he discussed with Amanda Griscom Little in Grist. The Sundance Summit gathered mayors from some of the 'usual suspects' (Seattle, Burlington, Berkeley) as well as some not-so-usual suspects (Des Moines, D.C., Pittsb ...
Topics: Chicago, Seattle (all these topics)

The Fremont solstice parade and the endangered hippie Hippies still roam free, on this one day, in this one place.	David Roberts	19 Jun 2005	Gristmill
I spent a lot of time with hippies with I was a young(er!) man, in many parts of the American West, primarily Missoula, Mont. I was even a bit of a hair farmer myself in those days. But these were modern hippies, who mimic the affectations of hippiedom -- pot smoking and earnest sanctimony -- without really feeling it in their bones.Yesterday, though, I went to see what is one of the last vestiges of true dirty hippiedom in this nation of ours: The Fremont Solstice Par ...
Topics: dirty hippies, Seattle (all these topics)

Us Magazine Seattle births hip, witty, best-ever-in-the-universe green magazine		16 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Us Magazine Seattle births hip, witty, best-ever-in-the-universe green magazine Seattle has become an epicenter for environmentally themed web ventures -- an appropriately green characteristic of the so-called "Emerald City." Heh heh. That's the kind of witty juxtaposition you can expect to find in "Grist," an inscrutably named but apparently quite humorous web magazine on all things ...
Topics: news, Seattle, shameless self-promotion, Washington (all these topics)

City City Bang Bang An interview with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels on his pro-Kyoto cities initiative	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Jun 2005	Main Dish
A Nickels' worth of free advice ... Meet the pied piper of one of the most exciting green grassroots uprisings to hit the U.S. in years: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D). He's managed to get roughly 300 mayors nationwide -- from the Northwest to the deep South and everywhere in between -- to agree that it's a good idea for U.S. cities to meet or beat Kyoto Pro ...
Topics: interview, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

A win for Kyoto cities plan U.S. mayors unanimously endorse climate-protection resolution	Lisa Hymas	14 Jun 2005	Gristmill
The nation's mayors have thrown their weight behind Kyoto (and thereby thumbed their noses at Dubyah). At the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Chicago yesterday, municipal leaders unanimously endorsed a resolution calling on U.S. cities to meet or beat the protocol's emissions-reduction targets. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels spearheaded the resolution, as well as a more specific campaign that's gotten 164 cities (so far) to commit to taking steps to protect the climate. ...
Topics: Chicago, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Seattle (all these topics)

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least		08 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle took the top four spots in a new ranking of 25 U.S. cities based on sustainability practices. Bay Area green group SustainLane created the list after scrutinizing the metropolises based on 12 criteria, ...
Topics: California, news, Oregon, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

The Ballard library It's cool.	David Roberts	14 May 2005	Gristmill
I went to the grand opening of the Ballard branch of the Seattle Public Library this afternoon (the old Ballard branch, a boxy, ugly blight, was replaced by a brand new one two blocks from my townhouse, oh happy day). It was a madhouse, with screaming, apple-juice-stained kids everywhere (I brought three myself), long lines at the desk, Bavarian folk music coming from one room and a chamber trio playing in another ... we had to flee fairly quickly. However! Although ...
Topics: Seattle (all these topics)

Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions The Kyoto Protocol has arrived, and though the Bush administration has opted out, others in the U.S. are not so climate oblivious. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced Wednesday he's leading an effort to get major U.S. cities to agree to Kyoto-like reductions of their greenhouse-gas emissions, to show the feds that " ...
Topics: climate, news, Portland, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Hybrid buses	David Roberts	13 Dec 2004	Gristmill
A little while back, Seattle got a lot of 'the future is now!'-type press for ordering a full fleet of diesel-electric hybrid buses, which cost $200,000 more apiece than their articulated diesel brethren. Unfortunately, according to the Seattle P-I, claims that they would get up to 40 percent better gas mileage have not cashed out. In fact, their gas mileage is roughly comparable to the old buses', although they are quieter, produce fewer emissions, and cost less to ma ...
Topics: electric vehicles, hybrids, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Rocks Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Schoolhouse Rocks Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches Healthy, organic food is increasingly popping up in, of all strange places, school lunches. The Seattle school district recently banned junk food and exclusive soda contracts (despite the big dollars dangled by soda companies) and started urging schools to offer "fresh, local, organic, non-genetically-modified, non-irradiated, unpro ...
Topics: California, education, food, organic food, Seattle (all these topics)

Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship		29 Aug 2003	Dispatches
Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 29 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. Part of my internship at EnviroCitizen involves getting media attention for our summit, "Powered by Justice: Skills to Build Energy Alternatives." Radio stations and student, community, and local papers around Washingto ...
Topics: Dispatches, Seattle (all these topics)

Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship		28 Aug 2003	Dispatches
Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. When I start my days, I always check my email, then get to the phone messages. The bulk of the emails I get are concerning our upcoming student summit -- either volunteers or people interested in attending it. Today, I had a lu ...
Topics: Dispatches, Seattle (all these topics)

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