Last week I posted about the weekly goldfish races at the Harmon Tap Room in Tacoma and the prompt cancellation after the establishment received complaints from PETA. Every Tuesday night the bar would feature races in which cheap feeder fish from a pet store were…
Confession: I love Beyonce. All the way back to Destiny's Child. So it is with some excitement I share this video as part of Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign to get you dancing as a form of exercise. Nietzche put it best: Dancing in all…
Don't get too close is what the warning signs tell you - you'll get cooked. The water is 240 degrees of pressurized heat, after all. But that didn’t stop some 30 tourists from taking a way-too-close look at Yellowstone’s famous Old Faithful Geyser. The AP…
The folks at Spokane Bikes - the group formerly known as Bike To Work Spokane - are compiling a master list for next month, to make May the official Bike Month. It all begins Sunday with the Commute Challenge and then the Elk Drug Droput…
As Joe Romm noted the other day, Ezra Klein has an interesting column in WaPo making the case that, in terms of policy, Obama "is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s." Putting aside the emergency measures responding to the economic crisis, Obama's signature initiatives…
In second grade, Cole was assigned a project to be an environmental activist. He researched environmental causes around him and found that McDonald’s was buying paper that destroyed endangered forests in his home state. .
Next week is Native Plant Appreciation Week and there are numerous events in our area. Even our own Spokane Native Plant Society is getting in on the action with a makoever of Lindaman’s restaurant in the historic St.John’s neighborhood. After the jump, check local events…
Van Jones gave a passionate keynote address to 10,000 youth climate activists at the Power Shift conference in Washington DC to “shift the power” and lead the clean power revolution. He argued that both parties need to be held accountable for their failures, and that…
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Check out this scary film showing scientists venturing inside the plant's cement sarcophagus, which keeps its nuclear material contained - for the moment.
This is a German ad from the Consumerist and it reads “Be careful when transporting fragile goods.” Pretty nasty stuff. But the question remains do you wear a helmet? On my bike commute downtown, I see too many NOT wearing a helmet even though it's…
Summer Parkways is back but it's different this year. They will be be expanding it to include three different neighborhoods, including their first night-time event: Wednesday, June 22, 6-9 PM- Comstock/Manito Neighborhood (map) Sunday, July 24, 10AM-2PM- North Hill Neighborhood (map) Sunday, August 14, 10…
Last week, the City Council voted 5-1 to approve a $175,000 settlement over the City Of Spokane not cleaning up PCB's--a cancer-causing pollutant. The carcinogen finds a way into the fatty tissue of fish and levels are so high in the Spokane River, the Spokane…
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and Newman drive from New York to Michigan to deposit recycled cans and bottles since it is 10 cents there instead of five cents everywhere else? They should've just gone to Coeur d'Alene. David Cole from the Coeur…
The Beach Boys. John Denver. Celine Dion. Jack Johnson. Miley Cyrus. Stacey Anderson compiled a list of the fifteen silliest odes to Mother Nature. "Faced with the deteriorating condition of our planet, people react in various ways. Some donate to charity, some sift trash along…
Mack and I go back. Way back. Yes, that's me taking photos like paparazzi. I should be so lucky because I truly was in the presence of greatness. A poet. Someone so "SpoCOOL." Who are you really Mack? Does Ciao Mambo have salmon-stromboli? Text after…
Tonight, the City of Spokane will host an open house to receive citizen input on the Pedestrian Master Plan. The open house will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Mason Auditorium at West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St.
The Spokane Riverkeeper uploaded more photos from that amazing day. Check out the set on flickr HERE.
Did you know that Jon Kyl calls the underside of his Senate seat "The Booger Graveyard"? Or that he once ate a badger he hit with his car? Of course, this was not intended to be a factual statement. Only in politics can you go…
There has always been a gap in eco-literature: while plenty of non-fiction, “Sand Country Almanac,” “Silent Spring,” “End of Nature,” and” Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” has filled aisles, there are few great explorations of the environmental world and impending climatic and biological changes from…
You may have heard about businesses forming a chapter of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in Spokane. Last week, after completing the Washington State application for nonprofit incorporation, they are now changing their name to the Sustainable Business Network of the Inland…
|I took a lot of photos on Saturday with the Riverkeeper's camera. And what a day it was. I'll need some time to process the event before a full debrief but the weather was beautiful, the turnout was phenomenal, and there were mad props all…
Hecla Mining released a statement regarding Larry Marek today, who became trapped when the roof of the mine he was working in collapsed nine days ago. He is presumed dead. "After more than a week of diligently working to rescue Larry Marek at the Lucky…
One of my favorite bands, TV On The Radio, lost their bassist Gerard Smith last Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer. Check the band's statement on his passing and a few of my favorite songs.
Confess your sins against earth and swear off your evil eco ways forever. Do it.
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