Here are two great program available to homes and business in Seattle that want to reduce the carbon footprint of their buildings. We all need to step up to fight the climate change we are already witnessing. The City is preparing it’s Climate Action Plan that we hope to adopt by Earth Day, 2013, and [...]
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Sea level rise will bring flooding to parts of Seattle by 2050
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Comprehensive Plan Amendments Advanced for Analysis
On August 13 the Council unanimously approved a resolution that advances possible Comprehensive Plan amendments for analysis and review by the Seattle Planning Commission and the Department of Planning and Development. These amendments will be considered for adoption in the spring of 2013 (state law limits the City to making general amendments to the Comprehensive [...]
A vote against coal
Yesterday, Seattle made national news by joining a growing list of cities and elected officials around the region in speaking out against a proposal to vastly expand coal exports to China and India. From the New York Times, “Washington: Seattle Votes Against Coal Terminals,” The Seattle City Council has unanimously passed a resolution opposing development [...]
Seattle City Council passes resolution opposing transportation of coal through Seattle
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Today the Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 31379 stating Seattle’s opposition to the transportation of coal through Seattle. The resolution highlights the negative impacts on the climate as well as regional impacts on human health and rail and freight traffic from the significant increase in coal trains that would run through Seattle.
Sustainability on Seattle’s College Campuses
I once wrote an editorial for the UW Daily that somehow connected a squirrel carcass that I cycled by every day on my way back and forth from campus to the need for greater recycling. Institutional and devoted recycling was still a new-ish thing. Critics said there’d be added costs and the confusion of how [...]
Council Sets 2012 Priorities
Council President Sally Clark has led us through a priority setting process for 2012, and the Council has identified an ambitious agenda of thirty initiatives, organized in five core priority areas. We will all have involvement in the entire list in the course of the year. Each Councilmember will lead on certain issues, usually those [...]
Delivering on Our 2011 Priorities
During my four years as President, I led the Council through a priority setting exercise each year, designed to identify the core issues to focus on for the year. Council President Clark plans to continue this plan. In 2011, Councilmembers identified 17 priorities. Here’s a report on how I think we did, from one to [...]
My Top Ten List for 2011
2011 was the last of my four years as Council President. In 2012, I will Chair the Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee, while Councilmember Sally Clark will become President for 2012-2013. As President, my goals have been: To build a strong and assertive Council that works to create a more just and sustainable [...]
Seattle City Council to focus on economic recovery in 2012
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Led by newly sworn in president Sally J. Clark, the Seattle City Council reaffirmed their commitment to economic recovery and strengthening regional partnerships at today's swearing in ceremony. Returning Councilmembers Tim Burgess, Jean Godden, Bruce Harrell, and Tom Rasmussen were sworn in today in the traditional Oath of Office ceremony.