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These Seattleites Are Working Hard Not to Trash the Planet

These Seattleites Are Working Hard Not to Trash the Planet

“Zero waste is the goal, but it is not possible in our current infrastructure.”

WASTE AWAY: This Le Parfait glass jar, a type favored by national zero-waste guru Bea Johnson, is used by Stephanie Wall to hold her family’s small amount of trash

Zero Waste Living Is Not so Far-Fetched in Seattle

Zero Waste Living Is Not so Far-Fetched in Seattle

This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart

GARBAGE GOALS: Seattle’s rock star zero wasters, like my neighbor Deb Seymour, can fit a month’s worth of trash in containers like these

Green Lake's Annual Pathway of Lights Takes to the Sky

Green Lake’s Annual Pathway of Lights Takes to the Sky

Big balloons add to the spirit of the annual event

FOLLOW THE LIGHT: Be warmed and enchanted by the luminarias and hot air balloons that illuminate the night during the Green Lake Pathway of Light

This Week Then: A Look Back on the Life of Seattle's Phyllis Lamphere

This Week Then: A Look Back on the Life of Seattle’s Phyllis Lamphere

Plus: Puget Sound’s first wide-audience television broadcast

This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Phyllis Lamphere (1922-2018) This week HistoryLink marks the passage of Phyllis Lamphere, a longtime Seattle civic leader and, from 1967 to 1978, a member of the Seattle City Council. Born and raised in Seattle, Lamphere attended Barnard College, where she studied modern dance under the…

Meet Kerry Taniguchi, Chinatown/International District's Reluctant Santa Claus

Meet Kerry Taniguchi, Chinatown/International District’s Reluctant Santa Claus

A longtime Chinatown-International District volunteer flourishes in a new, unexpected role

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS: Kerry Taniguchi, er, Santa, with a little boy who’s been very good this year (his grandson, Jackson)

This Week Then: The Great Flood of 1911 Cuts off Power and Water to Seattle

This Week Then: The Great Flood of 1911 Cuts off Power and Water to Seattle

Plus: Lewis and Clark's journey to the Pacific Ocean

Women carrying water from relief wagon on Bellevue Avenue during water shortage, Capitol Hill, Seattle, November 21, 1911

This Anacortes Nonprofit Makes Custom Prosthetics From Ocean Plastic

This Anacortes Nonprofit Makes Custom Prosthetics From Ocean Plastic

An Anacortes couple designs prosthetics from ocean plastic using a 3-D printer

COOL DIGITS: Million Waves Project recipient Abbey shows off her new hand, specifically made for her in custom colors

The Dynamic Integration of Art & Architecture at First Light
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The Dynamic Integration of Art & Architecture at First Light

Luxury living project previewing November 2018.

Sponsored by Westbank Seattle will soon get a first look at First Light, an introductory project from Westbank, the international firm that has cultivated a specialty in creating high-quality buildings that integrate public art into award-winning architecture. On October 23, Westbank introduced First Light with a keynote event at the Seattle Cinerama Theater. It was…

This Week Then: Looking Back on the End of World War I

This Week Then: Looking Back on the End of World War I

Plus: Washington state turns 129

Armistice Day parade in Pierce County in 1918

Palihotel Seattle Adds a New Kind of Cool to the City's Accommodation Explosion

Palihotel Seattle Adds a New Kind of Cool to the City’s Accommodation Explosion

The hotel décor nods to a bygone era when life was simpler, more congenial and just more fun

With new hotels popping up on almost every corner of Seattle, it’s becoming more challenging to stand out from the crowd. But the new boutique Palihotel Seattle (the first foray outside of Los Angeles of this growing hotel brand), at the corner of Pine and First, makes an impression you won’t soon forget. Hotel promoters…

Seattle State Rep Proposes Eviction Prevention Bills

Seattle State Rep Proposes Eviction Prevention Bills

The legislation would establish new protections for tenants

Seattle state representative Nicole Macri (D-43) is drafting legislation that could address some of the issues raised in last month’s report on evictions by the Seattle Women’s Commission and the Housing Justice Project. That report revealed that many renters who get evicted owe very small amounts of money, and that the vast majority of people…

Seeing the Light: New Belltown Condo Takes Glass and Architecture to the Next Level

Seeing the Light: New Belltown Condo Takes Glass and Architecture to the Next Level

Oooooh, Canada: A Vancouver, British Columbia developer is bringing his show-stopping—sometimes eyebrow-elevating—style to Seattle with First Light Condominiums

Glass discs by artist John Hogan will decorate the 48th floor rooftop pool deck of Belltown’s First Light condo complex.

This Week Then: The Port of Tacoma Turns 100

This Week Then: The Port of Tacoma Turns 100

Plus: A little history lesson on Washington state's elections

This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. One hundred years ago this week, on November 5, 1918, Pierce County voters approved the creation of the Port of Tacoma by a 5 to 1 margin. Before the Port’s formation, the Tacoma waterfront was privately owned by railroads, shipyards, lumber companies, and other industrial…

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