May 20, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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A comprehensive study into the potential for compressed air energy storage in the Pacific Northwest has identified two locations in Washington state that could store enough Northwest wind energy combined to power about 85,000 homes each month. Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 13, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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Oceanographers used data from seafloor seismometers to analyze more than 300,000 fin-whale calls. By triangulating the position they created more than 150 tracks off the Pacific Northwest coast. Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 11, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
For several years now, many of us have been predicting – or even celebrating - the end of the era of unfettered sprawl. Central cities have been ma… Continue reading
March 12, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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Native American hunter-gatherers living more than a thousand years ago in what is now northwestern California ate salmon, acorns and other foods, and now we know they also smoked tobacco — the earliest known usage in the Pacific Northwest, according t… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 14, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
A group of civic and architectural partners in Little Rock has developed a great concept for improving a declining neighborhood, incrementally increasing density, … Continue reading
August 20, 2012
by Reduce
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Greening old, vacant lots comes with plenty of healthy benefits to communities, but it might also help reduce crime, according to a new University of Pennsylvania study. Researchers started with two types of lots consisting controlled vacant, overgrown lots and ones renovated with help from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who cleaned, planted trees and grass [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookJuly 24, 2012
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The northern spotted owl, a threatened species in the Pacific Northwest, would actually benefit in the long run from active management of the forest lands that form its primary habitat and are increasingly vulnerable to stand-replacing fire. Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 10, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
When it is done well – with inclusion, affordability, environmental and cultural sensitivity, and attention to great placemaking – few things are as good for our c… Continue reading
September 26, 2011
by Nathanael Greene
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Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City
Demand for biomass is growing rapidly, as power companies come under increased pressure to find alternatives to fossil fuels like coal. (See NRDC’s Forests not Fuel si… Continue reading
August 16, 2011
by Matt Skoglund
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Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana
Sarah Skoglund crossing the Hoh River, Olympic National Park, Washington.
While the Wolf Wars in the Northern Rockies garnered all sorts of attention over the past few years, a curious dev… Continue reading
March 2, 2011
by Colin Peppard
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Auto use in the U.S. plunged during the record high gas prices we saw a few years ago. But driving has been steadily creeping back up, and the Department of Transportation announced today that American’s drove about 3 trillion… Continue reading