According to recent articles in the Seattle Times and EcoGeek, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington are considering a plan that would allow motorists travelling along U.S. Interstate 5 to charge or change electric-vehicle batteries, or to fill fuel tanks with biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen or compressed natural gas when they stop at rest stops [...]
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Greening I-5 from Mexico to Canada?
Posted in current events, environment, local, technology, tagged california, energy, oregon, puget sound, transportation, washington on 11 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New hybrid tugboat
Posted in technology, tagged california, energy, puget sound, transportation on 9 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Reprinted from EcoGeek.] When one considers the myriad of things becoming hybrid, tugboats are not one of those which immediately come to mind. But in southern California (where else?) the world’s first true hybrid tug was recently unveiled. The Carolyn Dorothy, displayed before a large crowd in the Long Beach, California area on January 23, [...]
I get trained
Posted in Personal, work, tagged engineering, management, Personal, puget sound, tools, training on 30 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No big post today — I’m in training. I’m taking the A/E/C Project Management Bootcamp from PSMJ Resources, Inc.; all project managers at my company, SHN Consulting, undergo this training. (A/E/C stands for “architect, engineer and contractor.”) I’m happy that there is basic training and common ground so that we can all have common information. [...]
Water wars, local ecoregion
Posted in books, current events, environment, local, tagged books, california, humboldt, natural resources, puget sound, water on 28 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I picked up a couple of good books at Tin Can Mailman last week. First, I picked up The Rain Forests of Home, which talks about the coastal temperate rain forests ecoregion stretching from the San Francisco Bay Area in California to the Cooke Inlet in Alaska. This is a chance for me to explore [...]
Salmon habitat restoration in the Nisqually Estuary
Posted in environment, local, tagged environment, habitat, natural resources, puget sound, restoration, salmonid, watershed on 15 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A large aquatic habitat restoration project has been announced for the mouth of the Nisqually River; it will provide habitat for South Sound chinook salmon, a federally-listed threatened species as well as a state candidate species. Some 762 acres (308 hectares) of saltwater estuary habitat will be restored by removing the old levees isolating them [...]
Canoe Journey 2008 and water quality data
Posted in local, nature, science, tagged environment, native peoples, natural resources, puget sound, science, water quality on 13 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every year since 1993, dozens of Native tribes and First Nations from the Pacific Northwest, from British Columbia to Washington, gather for the Tribal Canoe Journey. This year, a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council will result in five of the hundred or so canoes participating in the [...]
Majestic view
Posted in job search, nature, tagged environment, landscape, puget sound on 11 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, as I flew out for an interview in California, our plane was assigned a flight path that took it closer to Mount Rainier than I had ever been. The weather was glorious and the mountain stretched immense next to our plane, looming and seemingly close enough for our wingtips to brush off the [...]
Paper, plastic, or cloth?
Posted in current events, tagged consumers, environment, puget sound, recycling, waste on 8 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like in many other cities, plastic bags will be banned from Seattle grocery stores in the not too distant future. In addition, the City is considering whether to impose a ban or fee on a number of non-reusable container types as well. Having worked on landfills for many years and seen the mess of flying [...]
Trade-off: House prices vs. fuel prices
Posted in current events, tagged housing, inflation, oil, puget sound, transportation on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting article in today’s Seattle Times: “Will Gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs?” Seattle, like the rest of the major West Coast cities, has a relatively high cost of living and high housing and fuel costs. Although the situation is not as acute as in San Francisco or L.A., this sort of question is [...]
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