Having grown up as a regular denizen of the Seattle Public Library — both its fine Carnegie-era Greenlake branch and the Central library in the days when the chairs in the ground floor fiction section were usually filled by dozing homeless men — I felt some pangs of nostalgia to read of ...
In the meantime I’d realized that Seattle was chock-full of family biking bloggers like me, even though there wasn’t a family bike shop there either. From my perspective this was almost as good as having a bunch of family bike bloggers in the Bay Area, because I grew up in the Seat...
The end cost of the project is estimated to be around $4 million. United States Waste & Recycling News
Seattle In Seattle you simply can’t skip the Central Public Library – a modern architectural marvel of glass grids, unusual shapes, and a “book spiral” that climbs four stories. Stroll over to Pike Place Market to visit the original Starbucks and play catch with a fishmonger. In the hea...
The North Pacific Gyre - bka The Great Pacific Garbage Dump - is somewhere between 700,000 km² and 15 million km² in size, though it can't be located precisely on any map. The doldrums or horse latitudes whose calm sailors once mortally feared, are feared now for the mass of pla...
What would have taken four minutes in the city takes 20 minutes in the country. However, I did learn the name of his dog. It was Butterscotch. I still have to intentionally slow myself down. After decades in the city, being, um,nicedoesn’t come naturally to me anymore. ...
Last year, it cost NYC $93 per ton to dump garbage in landfills. ALSO: This Sandwich Shop’s Ridiculously Small Amount of Waste Will Shock You Based on the success of the composting program (it’s expected to reach all five of the Big Apple’s boroughs by this fall, with a larger ...
Canada’s coolest city is also one of the best in Things to Do in Toronto Restaurants & Cafés Bars & Nightlife Toronto is cool. So cool, in fact, it’s quickly become one of my favorite cities. Toronto is a BIG city with a population over 2.5 million. It’s also a veryinternationa...
The Toy Story 3 feeling comes both from being surrounded by garbage and from feeling like a tiny mote in a giant machine. The amount of material being moved through the transfer station is simply mind-boggling. It was difficult to grasp its scale. On the second floor, the materials the ...
The front rack was a huge pain to install, given that no one in San Francisco had done it before, and almost made me wish I’d flown my bike to Seattle instead of having the rack put on locally. But the payoff was a massive front basket (I have a Wald Giant basket zip-tied to ...