cbrewster

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'Walk Bike Ride': Where the rubber hits the (oof!) road

Posted Tue, Jul 6, 9:40 p.m.

Great article. It made me realize my bike commute in Boston really isn't so bad. Also made me think it's very important when new lanes/paths are added to make a big fuss over them and get people using them before they lose their new-pavement velvety ride, so that the same ...

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Seattle's climate ideas can hurt whole state

Posted Wed, Feb 10, 9:33 a.m.

1. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are indeed dwarfed by the natural carbon cycle, but what matters is that that's a cycle that's in balance--those many gigatons (I'm not sure where you got 360) are in turn removed from the atmosphere as they have been for eons. This is not a big ...

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Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.

Posted Mon, Feb 8, 7:25 a.m.

This is worth 13 minutes of your day if you enjoy British humor at all and/or feel suspicious of carbon offsets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3_CYdYDDpk Kate (guilt-ridden frequent flier stuck in a long-distance relationship with my family)

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Best of 2009: The 'socialized medicine' red herring

Posted Thu, Aug 20, 8:21 a.m.

Thank you for writing this, Tom. It makes me glad to have Crosscut around.

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What bike-friendly looks like

Posted Fri, May 2, 4:19 p.m.

RE: Time for bikers to pay: Nicely put. To the questions about licensing bicyclists and accident rates, asked by a self-described twice-a-year cyclist: When you ride on a road, you have the same responsibilities a driver does. I would be happy to see police go after cyclists who ride the ...

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Good news! Seattle housing prices drop!

Posted Thu, Mar 27, 7:24 a.m.

Go, Barney Frank!: Of course, if this keeps up nationally, your wandering adult children will be able to live wherever they want. But I'm happy to see hypocrisy slammed!

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The new hot spot in the environmental protection war is the Arctic

Posted Tue, Oct 2, 4:12 p.m.

RE: More at stake than polar bears and whales: Not adding to our carbon woes by extracting and then transporting (emitting CO2 all the way) all those fossil fuels DOES amount to taking a bigger picture view of things--Arctic oil exploitation is not our only alternative to Middle Eastern and ...

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Imperfect predictions of the perfect storm

Posted Tue, May 1, 2:11 p.m.

predicting climate vs. predicting weather: Here's how I understand the "you can't predict tomorrow's weather so how can you predict the next century's" conundrum: the LONGER the timeframe in predicting weather, the better the ratio of signal to noise. Another way to think about it is in terms of coin ...

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