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Latino Voters Take The Environment Personally
Organicnation, Flickr.com.For overwhelming numbers of Latino voters in the US, protecting the environment seems to be a very personal matter. It’s a matter of protecting families and the health of...
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Latino Voters Ready to Leave Coal in the Dust
eutrophication&hypoxia, flickrEarlier this week I wrote about new Sierra Club and National Council of La Raza research that shows environmental values squaring solidly with Latino family values and...
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Six Tips for Selling Green Stormwater Solutions
Roadside rain garden in Seattle, Lisa Stiffler. Congratulations! You’ve come up with a great idea for an affordable, attractive, environmentally sound solution for the polluted runoff that’s fouling...
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Latino Values and Conservation in Sync in CA
Waltarrrrr, flickr.com.A survey of Latino voters in California, that was released Thursday, finds the same kind of deeply held conservation values that national polling among Latinos has shown....
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Blessed Are the Rain Gardens…
Trinity United Methodist has a rain garden worth blessing; Lisa Stiffler. Seattle has elevated rain gardens to a higher calling with an announcement I recently noticed on the reader board for the...
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Farm Workers, Arctic Tribes, and Pesticides on Northwest Crops
Fifty years ago this last month, Silent Spring hit the shelves. The book that is sometimes credited with sparking the environmental movement in the United States pitted author Rachel Carson against the...
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A Green Stormwater Lesson from the Other Washington
Property boasting a RiverSmart Homes sign; photo from Mr. T in DC, Flickr. Northwest homeowners can take advantage of numerous incentives meant to encourage them to hook a rain barrel to their...
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Belly-Up Fish and Other Stormwater Mayhem
Poster for Tox-Ick stormwater campaign.It’s a challenge to drive home the importance of controlling polluted runoff. After all, what is stormwater but rain that’s hit the ground? The trouble is, the...
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The Last Reindeer in America
Editor’s Note: The following is a re-post of a 2009 holiday favorite. Who knows? Our local herd could help deliver Santa’s presents tonight. Most people don’t know it, but the Northwest is home to the...
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Top Ten (Sightline) Hits of 2012
Photo credit Kaptain Amerika Okay, we knew lots of you were into bikes, and it shows. But, more generally, it looks like Sightline readers simply favor posts about getting around. As we close out 2012,...
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How Salmon Could Save Us from Flood Damage
Flooded home in Skagit County, Chris and Jenni on Flickr. See mud on tree, build higher. This was the advice that Native Americans reportedly offered the pioneers that settled along flood-prone...
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Are Rain Gardens Mini Toxic Cleanup Sites?
Oily puddle, Flickr user Banalities. If you’re concerned about water pollution, you’ve likely heard this message: The water that gushes off our roofs, driveways, streets, and landscaped yards is to...
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Should the Harbor Porpoise Be the New Orca?
Photo credit: Florian Graner, SeaLife ProductionsWhat we don’t know about Puget Sound is astonishing. Astonishing because the southern Salish Sea washes up against communities home to several million...
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How Coal Affects Water Quality: State of the Science
En route from Seattle to China, the Selendang Ayu breaks up in Alaska in 2004. (Photo from US Coast Guard.)After a recent spill at a British Columbia marine coal export terminal, the general manager...
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The Real Story of Puget Sound’s Disappearing Herring
Pacific herring, SteveWyshy, Flickr. Puget Sound’s Pacific herring are a small fish with a whale-sized slate of problems. Many of the local herring stocks are in decline and despite some localized...
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Seattle’s Green Stormwater Goals
Roadside rain garden in Seattle, Lisa Stiffler. Recently, the city of Seattle announced a goal to dramatically increase the amount of water treated by rain gardens, green roofs, green streets,...
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Redmond’s Rain Garden Challenge
Rain garden, Lisa Stiffler. In the stormwater world, if a rain garden is releasing more pollution into the environment than it’s capturing, word gets around. So when the city of Redmond crunched its...
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Chris Jordan’s Journey
Chris JordanEditor’s note: For information and tickets for our upcoming 20th anniversary speaker series event featuring Chris Jordan, see our earlier post here. Chris Jordan is a renowned photographer,...
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It’s the Soil, Stupid
Seattle rain garden, Lisa Stiffler. The recent dust up over troublesome amounts of pollutants leaching out of a Redmond rain garden got me thinking about soil. That’s because the soil in a rain garden...
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Rain Garden Porn
Plants suitable for rain gardens, “Rain Garden Handbook for Western Washington” Foodies get to drool over countless images online and in print of perfectly posed burgers, mouth-watering slices of pies,...
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