Want to help make it easier to go from here to there on foot? The City of Spokane Planning Services Department is working on an update to the City’s Pedestrian Plan and is offering a key opportunity to get involved. Due to a compatibility issue,…
"The Chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000…
Exciting news: Sun People Dry Goods Company, your very own locally-owned retail store specializing in sustainable products for the home and garden, now provides service for proper disposal of hazardous household materials, including compact fluorescent light bulbs, batteries, inkjet cartridges and cell phones. These products…
You can read their policy note HERE. While I don't support Proposition 1, I don't agree with the Washington Policy Center's stance and rhetoric either. In their policy note, on the health care statute in the proposition, their anti-labor stance takes some cheap shots as…
One of the most beloved community events, the 9th Annual Spokane Spokane River Clean-Up is this Saturday, October 1st. We need team leaders and registrants. Last year over 800 people volunteered and the final count was nearly 6 tons of trash collected (11,982 pounds) of…
This article hits home for me. A few months ago, Robert McClure, the environmental correspondent for InvestigativeWest, wrote an excellent two-part series about counties where developers have been able to build many houses outside urban growth areas. One of the worst offenders is Kitsap County,…
The City of Spokane will host an open house on Wednesday, Sept. 28, to gather input from citizens on Phase I of its Pedestrian Plan Update. The open house will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the NEWESD 101, 4202 S. Regal St.,…
We had some technicial issues at DTE headquarters overnight but we're back in business today. Check out this beautiful short film, called "Blind," which imagines what would happen if the gas masks that many Japanese bought after Fukushima had ended up being necessary in Tokyo.…
Last week I posted about the "War On Cars" and how there wasn't much of a battleground here in Spokane. Today, Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw had a guest post on Slog, offering a few steps to recovery. Check it out: War is about destruction…
On September 22, West Spokane residents will get the opportunity to attend a free Community BBQ to learn about SustainableWorks, a Spokane based non-profit, that is offering reduced costs home energy audits and retrofits. The Energy Efficiency Community BBQ will take place at Cannon Park…
I'm coming back from vacation, so for this edition, I would like to share a story from George Orwell about coal that seems quite relevant today. Our civilization, pace Chesterton, is founded on coal, more completely than one realizes until one stops to think about…
The Stranger published a scathing piece about the myth of the "War On Cars," taking the gloves off to attack every anti-transit dufus in Seattle. Thankfully, Spokane has largely avoided the intense rhetoric. We all have anecdotes of driver on cyclist rage - have you…
Our very own U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell said that she would oppose development of the world’s largest hard rock mine, the Pebble Mine, in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed should science determine it could negatively impact the salmon populations on which thousands of Washington commercial fishery,…
Q: Governor, why does Texas continue with abstinence education programs when they don't seem to be working? In fact, I think we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. A: Abstinence works. Q: But we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate…
When news came that Mike Chappell had passed away, I couldn't believe it. He was so young. It was only Thursday night when I saw him last at the Saranac, there to congratulate Bart Mihailovich on winning the Inlander's Peirone Prize for his work on…
Jules Gindraux, a longtime aquifer advocate, had a wonderful letter to the Coeur d’Alene Press recently regarding the BNSF refueling depot. The BNSF facility goes before a Kootenai County hearing examiner this evening for renewal of their conditional permit for operations. Jules points out the…
Almost four years ago, on the old wordpress blog, I wrote about the environmental catastrophe of Ground Zero. Today marks ten years since the attack on the World Trade Center, so I thought it was appropriate to re-post because many of our new readers probably...
"Suppose you've just sat down in a crisply air-conditioned movie theater. Why not take the length of a preview or two to consider the building's massive carbon footprint? Imagine those greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere, disrupting ecosystems and causing infectious diseases to spread rampantly,…
Today I received a press release from Bob McCarl concerning a hearing that will be held at the Federal Courthouse in Coeur d'Alene tomorrow at 1:30pm. Citizens affected by the Bunker Hill Supefund site will be on hand to hear the outcome of the $263…
The largest environmental civil disobedience in decades concluded over Labor Day weekend on September 3rd in front of the White House with organizers pledging to escalate a nationwide campaign to push President Obama to deny the permit for a new tar sands oil pipeline. A…
Protests against a proposed tar-sands pipeline, which have already mushroomed into the largest civil disobedience actions in America in many years, broke out across the globe today, with solidarity demonstrations at U.S. and Canadian embassies and consulates on six continents. In Durban, South Africa, visiting…
The City of Spokane’s Wastewater Management Department is asking citizens to take a quick, on-line survey to gauge knowledge of stormwater pollution and improve education efforts around this issue. The survey is available at www.spokanewastewater.org/stormwatersurvey.aspx. Citizens also will be reminded about the survey in an…
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