I have been to see the film Grassroots, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal based on the book Zioncheck for President by Phil Campbell. It’s the story of Grant Cogswell, a naive environmental zealot in Seattle who campaigns to extend a short stretch of monorail throughout the city. In 2001 he runs against the incumbent local councillor… Continue reading
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Seattle building bids to be greenest in world
Not too far in the future we will look back at a certain building which was the first to successfully address, in its vision, construction and operation, one of the imperatives of the 21st-century. It would be so unambiguously planet-friendly that when we see it we will know at once that this is the model,… Continue reading →