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Future City: Seattle on the Threshold



In preparation for our Future City event this Friday, we're comparing progress towards urban sustainability in Portland and Seattle. In its Cascadian context, Seattle is the middling city. It's true that it retains a vibrant central core, that it has had neighborhood planning since 1993, and that in general Seattle is more and more compact. Yet it is no Vancouver...
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Future City: Portland & Networked Urban Sustainability
In preparation for our Future City event this Friday, we're comparing progress towards urban sustainability in Portland and Seattle. When...
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The Most Important Political Battle of the Year: No on Proposition 23
It may be the most important political fight on the planet, this fall: the battle over California Proposition 23. Baldly...
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A Week of Biking Joyously: An American Delegation Learns from the Dutch
On a fact-finding mission to the Netherlands, a delegation of California public officials marvel at the promise of bicycles for...
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Community
What Is Missing?: Maya Lin's Memorial on the Sixth Extinction
Amanda Reed, 12 Oct 10 What is Missing? is a multi-media multi-site memorial by Maya Lin that aims to build awareness about species loss and highlight what scientists and environmental groups throughout the world are doing to protect species and habitats. It's a manifestation of...
Cities
Skylifter: Heavy Lifting Airships of the Future?
Amanda Reed, 12 Oct 10 In a cross between blimps for freight and flying robots for disaster relief comes word of a new heavy lifting airship proposal by an Australian team that could potentially transport whole buildings to remote areas. The Skylifter is basically a...
Planet
The Frozen Zoo: A Seed Bank for Endangered Animals
WorldChanging Team, 11 Oct 10 Editor's Note: We've talked a lot about the sixth extinction, biodiversity loss and the need to catalog the Earth's biosphere, and what we can do to raise awareness and make species loss more visible; now here's a new angle in...
Politics
Banksy and the Simpsons' Backstory!
Alex Steffen, 11 Oct 10 This Banksy Simpsons intro is just brilliant, a perfect ripping away of the surface to reveal the problematic system beneath in a funny, cutting way. Hello Simpsons' backstory!
Politics
10/10/10 Global Work Party: Get In On The Action This Sunday!
Amanda Reed, 8 Oct 10 Bill McKibben of 350.org has invited everyone around the world to this weekend's 'Global Work Party,' which pairs grassroots environmental activism with political engagement: It’s been a tough year...So we’re having a party. Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar. That’s the...
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