The film "Chasing Ice" - which I showed a clip of last Tuesday - will open today at the Magic Lantern, located at 25 W. Main in downtown Spokane. Everybody should see this film, especially climate skeptics and dubious commenters, as filmmakers trackdown melting glaciers…
One of my favorite quotes on cycling comes from one of my favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway: “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you…
Watch this amazing footage of a massive 4.6-cubic-mile glacier in Greenland crumbling to pieces. It's the largest glacier break-up ever caught on camera and part of a segment that will be featured in a documentary called Chasing Ice. The film is dedicated to chronicling the…
Did you miss Amy Goodman's appearance at Spokane Falls Community College last October? Fear not! KYRS has got your back. They are presenting a special encore of Democracy Now! host's Live in Spokane, "The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope". In this…
The news feels heavy lately and we all need moments to remember life's still sweet. Well, photos of Fukuoaka Island might do the trick because I'm pretty sure when the Talking Heads sang "This Must Be The Place," they were referring to the tiny island…
John Farrell is a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance specializing in energy policy developments that expand the benefits of local ownership. His report Energy Self-Reliant States found that at least "three-fifths of the fifty states could meet all their internal electricity needs…
Q. Obama and global warming — decode his signals for us. Is he really going to take the lead here in the next four years, and prioritize this issue? A. I think it’s not clear sometimes how America is prioritizing the issue. Four years ago,…
Broadcasting live with Ustream Can't make the Seattle meeting? You can stream HERE. It's packed with a sea of red shirts. At this scoping meeting, the Army Corps of Engineers will decide which impacts to take into account as it considers the permit proposal for…
This ambitious claymation/magic marker video compresses Earth' shistory into a 24-hour period. That's right, all 4.5 billion years, courtesy of Buzzfeed's Mitchell Moffit. From Moffitt: What would it look like if we took Earth's 4.5 billion year history, and stuffed it into a normal day's…
We all like lists, right? They're good points for debate. However, this one might be a lump of coal in the Christmas stalking: Jamaica Plain Green House has the "Top 10 Worst Christmas Gifts," a classic list that hasn't lost its relevance. JP Green House…
We're so accustomed to fast travel and instant digital communications that we often forget how long it took to get across the USA. This series of maps shows the evolution of the speed of travel over the years.
The strange story of Tim DeChristopher continues. After a 15 month stint in federal prison for disrupting an auction on oil and gas leases on public lands, he's out looking for a job. DeChristopher landed a job at a First Unitarian Church - briefly. The…
Have you ever heard of Council Connection? It's a monthly cable television program featuring Spokane City Council members as hosts. It's sort of like Wayne's World meets CNN, making Spokane the only place where you'll find such a program. Photo by Ben Tobin. The next…
Good news from Sun People Dry Goods: If you shop there on Wednesday, December 12th between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., 10% of your purchase will go to the Spokane-based non-profit, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center. This will help support their work…
True story: In the summer of 1997, fish in the Chesapeake Bay were discovered with bleeding lesions. They had fallen victim to a toxic microbe called Pfiesteria piscicida. It apparently grew in warm, polluted waterways. It also infected humans. Director Barry Levinson is not known…
Time to speak up or forever hold your peace. It seems like we've tracked coal export facilities in the northwest and the impacts from trains passing through Spokane forever. But the moment we've all been waiting for goes down tomorrow when Spokane hosts a hearing…
One can walk or jog along the river today, enjoy its green spaces, its skyride, hear the rumble of the water and the cries of water birds. The park creation and river restoration showed that an improved environment could encourage development that could successfully withstand…
Our friend Bart Mihailovich, The Spokane Riverkeeper, sat down with journalist extraordinaire Tim Connor to talk about how the election left him hopeful about the future of environmental protection and to discuss the battle over massive coal exports in Washington. From the Center For Justice:…
Did you know that in Spokane County, 25% of growth in the last decade has happened outside our urban areas? Making matters worse, the Urban Growth Area itself has not reached the population it was planned to accommodate. Also, it was estimated that Spokane County…
This video does a great job recapping the gridlocked mess that are known as global climate talks. Every November, the UN convenes world leaders at a different location for a week of slogging through how to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This year, it's at Doha,…
Spokane Community College’s Native American Student Organization welcomes Judith Brown Hawk, owner of Highland Sanctuary Retreat, who presents “Indigenous Populations in America: The 21st Century Native American” today at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. in the Lair-Student Center Sasquatch Room, Bldg. 6, 1810 N. Greene St.…
Spokane Community College’s Native American Student Organization welcomes Judith Brown Hawk, owner of Highland Sanctuary Retreat, who presents “Indigenous Populations in America: The 21st Century Native American” today at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. in the Lair-Student Center Sasquatch Room, Bldg. 6, 1810 N. Greene St.…
Jaclyn Nicholson from elocal recently contacted me about their wonderful campaign Why Buy Local? Check this infographic they came up with and here's what she had to say about helping the planet and your community by buying local: We all hear about why it is…
As a reminder, the Spokane Regional Transportation Council is still in the process of updating the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Horizon 2040. The MTP is a long-term, multimodal “blueprint” for transportation aimed at meeting the mobility needs of the area through the year 2040. It…
In the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's "State Of The Climate" there are more than a few scary findings. The winning statistic: If you were born in or after April 1985, or if you are currently 27 years old or younger, you have never lived…
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