Seattlest spent a couple years in Seattle without a car and it wasn't really that bad. Buying liquids at the store was the #1 problem. When you go to QFC and buy OJ and a half rack plus a few other odds and ends it doesn't sound like much, but it's a bitch to get home. We were the sole member of our household at that point, though, so not having a car shouldn't have been much of a problem. Alan Durning of Northwest Environment Watch is a family man with three kids so when he says he's going car-free it actually means something. more ›

Recently, West Seattle mom (Volvo driver, PCC shopper) Karina Aldredge learned that there is strong scientific evidence that "levels of PBDEs are rising rapidly in the environment and in human bodies, particularly in North America where the use of PBDEs is the highest": more ›

The busy beavers over at Seattle's Northwest Environment Watch have taken their statistical sideshow to the wilderness. They've decided to track the health of five northwestern indicator species: gray wolves, woodland caribou, greater sage grouse, Chinook salmon, and the resident orcas off the coast of Washington and British Columbia. (Yes, Virginia, there's a chart!) more ›