Liberal Talk Radio

I’ve long harped on the fact that changing land use policies is central to curbing emissions. We simply can’t cut greenhouse gases substantially without changing our living, traveling, and commuting patterns. In that vein, here’s a good bill being debated in Olympia that would tie climate change to the State’s Growth Management Act. If a [...]

Credit where due. Wal-Mart is rolling out some newer, more energy efficient stores: The High Efficiency stores use technology tested and developed in two experimental green stores Wal-Mart opened in 2005 in McKinney, Texas, and Aurora, Colorado, including a white roof that deflects the sun’s heat. The latest generation takes the energy savings built into [...]

I haven’t blogged about this much, but Puget Sound is pretty damn polluted. The cause? Storm runoff, mostly. Oil and grease from the city streets are dumping the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez into the Sound every two years. Intesnse! Fortunately, we have solutions for storm runoff: Bioswales. There are a few scattered throughout Seattle [...]

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 step [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Al [...]

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 [...]