aggregated from: West Seattle Blog...

(From left, Kristy Royce, board president and CoolMom founder; Lisa Olson; Natasha Hissong; Tauna Evans)Story and photos by Mary SheelyReporting for West Seattle BlogMichelle Gaither wants you to know that sometimes being environmentally friendly isn...

topics: carbon-footprint, climate-change, coffee, pollution, recipe

aggregated from: Seattle Condo Blog

Press release. At a time when many regional projects are at a standstill and unable to secure financing, this loan renewal helps Olive 8 earn its distinction as an urban and sustainable condominium project that has been able to move forward as plann...

topics: carbon-footprint, commercial-real-estate, developer, development, environment

aggregated from: Slog

When Dubai Is Begging for a Payment Plan: The rest of the wobbly world freaks out.Save the Washington Budget: Play Keno.Sorry!: Irish Catholic Church apologizes for priests having sex with children, then for protecting/hiding priests having sex with ...

topics: budget, carbon-footprint, obama, soccer, tacoma

aggregated from: West Seattle Blog...

Summer's over but things just don't seem to slow down. So SDOT is continuing to issue these alerts. The big one, as mentioned yesterday - Saturday morning's Alaskan Way Viaduct closure for the Puget Sound Heart Walk (though SDOT has a different start...

topics: carbon-footprint, cycling, puget-sound

aggregated from: Seattle Condo Blog

The following is a news release from Olive 8.SEATTLE (September 10, 2009) The stunning Olive 8 building (condo website), a 39-story hotel/ condominium building located in downtown Seattle, has officially received LEED Silver by the U.S. Green B...

topics: carbon-footprint, condo, development, downtown, environment

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

Harvard economist Edward Glaeser is skeptical about high-speed rail as an economic stimulus strategy. The Obama administration has laid out a plan for investing in corridors around the country, including the Vancouver, BC to Eugene, OR stretch here i...

topics: business, carbon-footprint, obama, transit

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

I recently received an envelope in the mail offering a Free Pre-Paid Cremation! I figured it was either a note from an irate reader or a sign that Obama's death panels were up and running.Since I'm not dead quite yet, the offer seemed premature. ...

topics: bellevue, budget, carbon-footprint, environment, obama

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

Thanks to $7.6 million more in federal monies for car and passenger ferries that was secured yesterday by U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington, Kitsap Transit will be fully funded for a six-month trial run of a high-speed low-wake passenger-only f...

topics: bremerton, business, carbon-footprint, development, employment

aggregated from: Cascadia Prospectus

Thanks to $7.6 million more in federal monies for car and passenger ferries that was secured yesterday by U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington, Kitsap Transit will be fully funded for a six-month trial run of a high-speed low-wake passenger-only f...

topics: bremerton, carbon-footprint, development, employment, ferries

aggregated from: West Seattle Blog...

No surprise that an electric utility would get some trucks that run partly on electricity. Seattle City Light just unveiled two new hybrid diesel-electric trucks that are going into service starting today, and provided the photo you see above ...

topics: carbon-footprint, emissions, environment, greenhouse-gas, running