Editor's Take: July 13, 2009
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Smart and Stylish Density
In Seattle, architects are pushing to make denser housing projects more attractive, and one writer challenges environmentally-minded residents to lose their NIMBYism. And while chilly Canada's engine block warmers could provide infrastructure for electric cars, could the vehicles' quiet motors pose a danger to pedestrians?
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Canada already wired for electric cars
Silent hybrids cause some alarm
Chasing an antiseptic field of greens
WA Basic Health plan ramping up costs
Washing your car? Hold the soap
Seattle: About to be a light-rail town
The true value of farmland
4 Days + 2 Wheels on the OR coast
Views: Can you be an environmentalist and a NIMBY?
Editor's Take: July 10, 2009
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Cle Elum: Solar Capitol of the World?
As world leaders chipped away at international plans to fight climate change, Northwest projects turned toward the sun for abundant renewable energy: The biggest solar plant in the world may be built in Cle Elum, Washington; Eugene, Oregon welcomes a Chinese solar sales firm; and progress is made on California's solar bill.
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Obama admin. ready with $3 billion for renewable energy
Chinese group plans solar-panel hub in Oregon
Report: OR leads nation in new homeless people
Climate change research forest designated in Tongass
It could happen in King Co.: No money for public health, human services
Stimulus funds for tribal water projects
Canada won't budge on climate goals at G-8 summit
Views: I-1033 could turn Washington into Mississippi
Views: Step forward for CA solar bill
Editor's Take: July 09, 2009
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Taking Control of Reproduction
Contraception could become more readily available in Western states following a federal appeals court ruling requiring pharmacists to provide Plan B, or 'morning after,' birth control pills. Also on the health front, San Francisco is taking steps to expand access citywide to healthier foods, and wood smoke is the No. 1 cancer risk from air pollution in Oregon.
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Sockeye's return a tribute to tribes' persistence
Global warming accord spells lifestyle changes
Homelessness in suburbs, rural areas increases
Doughnuts and job skills for Portland youth
Wood burning creates top cancer risk in Oregon's air
Mandate for healthier foods in San Francisco
Bike parking a big deal in BC
Transportation stimulus driven to rural areas, not cities
Solar sensations under development
Editor's Take: July 08, 2009
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Less time in traffic
Whether it's the recession, gas prices, more walkable communities or better transit, we're spending less time in traffic, with commute times slightly down in Portland and Puget Sound. Condo developers in Vancouver BC may have to include electric car chargers, and a Ballard home whose elderly owner refused to sell to developers is headed skyward.
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Portland drivers get a break at rush hour
Iconic Ballard home headed skyward
Which comes first - the electric charger or car?
The many uses of manure
Salmon run's future rests on 45 fish
WA halts Maury Island gravel mine
Forests: carbon sinks or fire hazards
Stimulus filling hungry bellies
Views: Don't fool ourselves on 'walkability'
Editor's Take: July 07, 2009
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Stimulus to Fund Green Jobs in NW
Oregon has been selected by the US Education Department to help develop a green jobs training program that could give a much-needed boost to the state with the nation's second-highest unemployment. Nearly 20 Sacramento-area agencies will split more than $4.9 million in federal recovery cash to fund local job-training programs--many of them green collar.
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