April was the busiest month ever for tornado activity while May hosted the deadliest single tornado on record. Many refuse to talk about the links between tornadoes and climate change. They should check out Bill McKibben's op-ed in the Washington Post. NOAA offers this: In…
In that swath of the American flatland that has been so brutalized of late, a 93-year-old woman gave me a warning. She had lost her house as a little girl, a homestead property of timber-sheltered memories that shattered in a twister’s strike and took to…
Call it good news for sustainability: For people to be attracted to city life - which is less energy intensive - they have to feel safe. It is a burden for some, even though it's a way to reduce your carbon burden. So the news…
At yesterday’s Planning Commission retreat, in addition to making an off-the-cuff comment that Ballard is the new Capitol Hill (see my explanation for that remark here), I got into a discussion with Crosscut’s Knute Berger about self-sufficiency. Berger—generally a density opponent—argued that backyard cottages in…
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