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Down To Earth archive for Nov. 24, 2008

MONDAY, NOV. 24, 2008

Another Green Monday Quick Hits from the S-R 

What to do with the downtown YMCA building? There is a quagmire of a situation brewing in Riverfront Park over what to do with the old YMCA building. County commissioners have to decide whether to use property taxes collected through the Conservation Futures program to…

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Downtown Seattle revised 

And now for something completely different: Seattle news. For those familiar with the waterfront, and the controversial elevated highway known as “the viaduct,“ house Speaker Frank Chopp presented two replacement scenarios that would drastically alter downtown even though one proposal is another elevated highway (but…

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NBC Greenwash week

Greenwash alert! NBC just got busted. Currently, they’re doing another “Green is Universal” week and in the middle of touting their greeness decided to cut the Weather Channel’s Environmental Unit. Wow. That’s how you send a convincing message, while promoting “Law & Order SUV” or…

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"What's Water Really Worth?"

Water has always been a commodity. We received an email from Ken Kingery at the University of Idaho regarding a new project to assist the state with water usage by gauging user input with hopes of devising a sound environmental and economic plan. "What’s Water…

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