
October 23, 2018 - January 31, 2019
Sustainable Ballard
Sustainable Ballard
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January 9 at 9:49 PMOkay, now the bad news. From Singapore to D.C. to Lagos: Global Thinkers on Ideas That Died in 2018 (CityLab) Obituary for sustainability (1987 - 2018) Why has sustainability proven insufficient, at least as currently practiced by the majority of us who claim to subscribe to it? Perhaps in part because... sustainability has largely been...
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January 9 at 9:40 PMHey Sustainable Ballard group, we missed this story by one day! Climate change: 'Right to repair' gathers force (BBC News) It is frustrating: you buy a new appliance then just after the warranty runs out, it gives up the ghost.You can’t repair it and can’t find anyone else to at a decent price, so it joins the global mountain of junk.You’re...
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December 17 at 4:00 PMToday the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) posted an article about walkability in cities from walking advocate and urbanist, Jeff Speck. His new book is entitled Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places shows how to make communities walkable—and better places to live. Obviously, I am not going to list all 101 steps in this post....
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December 5 at 10:57 PMThanks, Hugh. I always appreciate your perspective and insight. I think I've 'been around' the earth a tad longer than you, but you've been 'consciously green' for longer than this Chicago-bred "girl." Way, way too many quotation makrs for a short post, but you know what i mean.
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December 4 at 11:00 PMHi team. I didn't mention in our meeting tonight that the SDOT group I work with is focused on Public Space. It's messy as it involves permitting (you put this in shared space, now you need a permit) and programming (block parties, festival streets, parklets, streateries, weddings, marketing, food trucks, lots of activation (think...
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December 3 at 11:03 PMThe Seattle Planning Commission *just today* released a report called "Neighborhoods For All." It can be found at this link: https://seattlecitygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c29eb88613f043328d1fbcc1de598701 It features an interactive story-board providing the most up-to-date data and information about housing...
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