Results tagged “sustainable”

Farmers started seeing themselves as producing a commodity, not growing food. Unfortunately, just as sourcing the most affordable car parts may result in components coming from all over the country, producing the cheap ground beef in huge quantities means that the meat comes from many different cows. The result being that one tracking error would result in all the beef being untraceable.

"Sustainable is a crappy vision," announced Peter Senge (pronounced "senn-gay"), author of The Fifth Discipline, which has nothing to do with the film Milla Jovovich was in. He was just off the plane from China, making a stop for a leadership keynote address this morning to the Americans for the Arts meet-up at Seattle's Convention Center, before continuing on home to Massachusetts.

• South Lake Union's Terry Thomas Building is named as one of the most sustainable projects of the year by a group of pretty important architects.
• Bellevue Community College dropped the Community part of its name.
• Ballard has always had a thing for witty bumper stickers, but times have changed and now their witty t-shirts are taking over. Free Ballard!