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To: President G.W. Bush, Red America
From: Norwegian Nobel Committee
Re: You
_________
Dear Red America,
Eff you.
Sincerely,
Norwegian Nobel Committee

Scared about global warming?  You should be.
How can any sane individual with a conscience deny that some kind of human-caused climate change is well underway?  Boggles the mind.

Apropos of President Bush’s speech on global warming, King County Exec Ron Sims has an op-ed in yesterday’s Seattle Times urging a “no” vote on our local Prop. 1, the joint “Roads and Transit” measure.
I already blogged a bit on the piece itself over at Orphan Road, but I want to take a [...]

And no, it doesn’t run windows, and it’s not cheap, either:
“This is not cheap what they’re doing,” said Kevin Desmond, general manager at King County Metro Transit. “Microsoft employees enjoy good benefits that many employers would give their right arm to be able to provide.”
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, acknowledged it is expensive but declined [...]

Fodder for the next time your partner guilts you into paying triple for apples at the greenmarket:
The term “food miles” — how far food has traveled before you buy it — has entered the enlightened lexicon. Environmental groups, especially in Europe, are pushing for labels that show how far food has traveled to get to [...]

My Fellow Americans, fear not: in the grueling battle between the people of Earth and the glaciers of Earth, the people have emerged victorious. The glaciers are officialy retreating. I guess they haven’t raised the white flag since, well, they’re all white and it would be redundant.
This is all much less funny than [...]

Seattlest discovers the joys of the tap and the huge carbon footprint of the bottled stuff.
I buy bottled water from time to time, like anyone else, but Seattle tap water is actually really, really good. I lived and died by my Brita filter in Philly, but since moving out here, I haven’t used it [...]

USA Today — the much reviled “McNewspaper” of my college years — once more shows off its better side: a laudable “informed populism” that the President and certain members of his party and the media (paging Matt Drudge) would do well to emulate. The newspaper is taking climate change seriously, and is publishing a [...]

So to speak.
The Seattle City Council writes a letter to the Zoo:
As construction prices climb, and concerns about global warming come into focus, Seattle City Council members are having second thoughts about a four-level parking garage project at Woodland Park Zoo that it approved three times in the past six years.
The zoo plans to break [...]

This month’s Wired has a great piece on a smart city for 500,000 people (that’s about the size of Seattle proper) being built from scratch:
Arup believes good design can do something about this mess. Dongtan’s master plan — hundreds of pages of maps, schematics, and data — has almost nothing to say about architectural style. [...]