Seattle
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Seattle doesn’t want Shell’s stinkin’ Arctic drilling fleet
Residents of the notoriously green city are fighting the oil giant's plans to dock its Arctic drilling fleet at the local port.
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We love this fake plan to turn Seattle’s fusterclucked tunnel into a park
Bertha is still stuck, but locals have a plan to upcycle the unfinished highway tunnel under downtown.
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Seattle vs. Boston: Which Super Bowl city sucks less?
We pitted Boston and Seattle against each other based on some of our favorite urban metrics -- like transit, oysters, and celebrity activists.
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Seattle to shame residents for throwing away food
The city will shame and fine residents for putting compostable food in the trash bin.
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Obsoleting Bertha: Viaduct traffic plummets
Sightline’s Clark Williams-Derry has a terrific post on the astounding decline in traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct since Seattle’s Big Dig II began. Trip volumes are down 40% in just 3 years! Clark analyzes the remarkable trend and concludes: At this point, nobody knows if [tunnel-boring machine] Bertha will ever get moving again, let alone complete […]
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Awesome metal squid will guard your bike
We want these everywhere. Because who would dare steal a bike from the tentacles of a squid?
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Starbucks juice bar: Vegan nirvana or yuppie hellhole?
There are two ways to think about Starbucks' first juice bar, which recently opened. Either this juice heralds the end of times, or it is a boon to vegans and vegetarians everywhere.
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A new way of measuring carbon emissions that doesn’t let rich people cheat
There's no comprehensive, standardized way for cities to track their carbon pollution, but a new study puts forward a useful model. And it counts not just the CO2 we produce, but the CO2 we consume.
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Buckle up for more weather weirdness, America
Last year, the climate phenomenon La Niña messed with everyone’s heads. La Niña conditions mean that the ocean temperature in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean are colder than usual, and this was responsible for (among other things) the uncannily warm winter that the Northeast has been having. Sorry, can’t blame that on climate change! Yet. NASA’s […]