Upcoming Events. Trending News. Technology Matching Fund - Community Technology | seattle.gov. Deadline: March 19, 2015 Free information workshops, beneficial for first time applicants: Tuesday, February 10 Thursday, February 12 10:00 - 11:30 AM 6:00 - 7:30 PM 2100 Building Solid Ground 2100 24th Ave S 1501 N 45th St Seattle 98144 Seattle 98103 Interpretation & accommodations available upon request. RSVP to communitytechnology@seattle.gov or by phone at 206-233-7877.
The Technology Matching Fund provides grants up to $30,000 for technology projects. City dollars are matched by the community's contribution of volunteer labor, materials, professional services, or cash. The Technology Matching Fund seeks to improve digital equity by: Connecting populations that have limited access to technologyEmpowering residents with digital literacy skillsBuilding capacity for diverse communities to use technology for civic participation.
$470,000 in matching funds offered for technology projects; applications due ... CDBG-02_11_15_NDRC_Public_Comment_Doc_.pdf. Investors Encourage Further Transparency, Standardization to Spur Green Bond ... As the green bonds market continues to show impressive growth, leading investors released a Statement of Investor Expectations to support the development of a consistent, durable framework for the green bonds market, which has enormous potential to grow, especially in regard to clean energy financing and other solutions to climate change. As the green bonds market continues to show impressive growth, leading investors today released a Statement of Investor Expectations to support the development of a consistent, durable framework for the green bonds market, which has enormous potential to grow, especially in regard to clean energy financing and other solutions to climate change.
The investor group was convened by Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of major institutional investors. Identified by Ceres as one of 10 key drivers of a low-carbon economy in its 2014 Clean Trillion analysis, green bonds will help accelerate private capital flows into clean energy. The WELL Building Standard: Buildings bonding us to nature. The new WELL Building standard will work with LEED with the intent to promote a healthier human environment based on nature. SAN DIEGO, February 2, 2015 – In just 14 short years, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building certification system has become the standard for energy-saving, cost-efficient building in the United States and abroad. The LEED standard is familiar to the general public and a source of pride and even brand marketing for office buildings, hotels, schools, and other community projects.
The State of California now requires all new state buildings to be LEED certified. LEED has been a wonderful standard, and it’s gotten people thinking more seriously about ways green building practices can improve the health and well-being of a building’s occupants, such as access to daylight and outdoor views, active design, improved air exchange and better and safer materials choices. New building standards need to focus on human health impacts. Loving the Puget Sound to Death. (Illustration by Tim Robinson) This article was reported with support from the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Hidden amid the pleasure boats and cargo ships that roar through the canal in northwest Seattle is one of the oldest fishing economies in North America. From midsummer to October, from early morning until after dusk, fishermen from the Suquamish Tribe zoom up and down the canal in orange waterproof overalls, tending to salmon nets that dangle across the water like strings of pearls.
The tribe holds reservation land about ten miles west of the city, on the far side of Puget Sound, the 100-mile-long estuary that extends from Olympia, Washington, north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The men unload salmon at “A Dock,” a section of a boatyard reserved for tribal fishing boats. Ringed by the white-capped Cascade and Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound looks pristine. Please support our journalism. 4 Emergency Phone Chargers Review. Sprint 'Cut Your Bill in Half' promo won't work for everyone Sprint, which got clobbered for value and data service in Consumer Reports’ most-recent cell phone service satisfaction survey, has a compelling offer for restless AT&T and Verizon customers.... Get the best cell phone plan for your family—and save up to $1,000 a year...
Update 2/5/15: Thanks to price-war incentives and greater plan flexibility, there are more opportunities now to save a few bucks on the new, no-contract plans from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and... 8 steps to keeping your cell phone working in a blizzard Today's smart phones can do just about everything, but when a blizzard, hurricane, or other disruptive weather condition threatens to trap you without power, the device's most important job is to... T-Mobile vows to end bad-credit phone pricing with 'Smart Phone Equality'... Mobile carriers have a habit of advertising deals for which only customers with stellar credit scores to qualify. What will Windows 10 do for you? Mycorrhizae (I want to be a fungus!) 5 Ideas That Could Have Prevented Flooding in New York. New York City didn’t have to flood quite this badly, or, at least, it doesn’t have to again.
There's no shortage of ideas out there for how the city could adapt to rising sea levels (or, we’ll just say it: climate change). A lot of them haven’t been deployed or more seriously studied because they seem too expensive or daunting. But an event like Sandy quickly changes that calculus. Suddenly, some of these solutions don’t look quite as expensive as cleaning up after a hurricane: 1. Arcadis estimated at the time that the cost of constructing such a project would be about $6.5 billion. 2. The New York MTA has also experimented in the past with elevating the grates that ventilate the subway system, another piece of transit infrastructure susceptible to flooding. A bench like that wouldn’t be high enough to keep out water during a 100-year-storm but could make a difference during less severe flooding. 3. 4. 5.
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Global Cities Initiative: A Joint Project of Brookings and JPMorgan Chase. Message [ Mercer Island Reporter] Downtown Seattle Association. Most Dangerous Place to Live in America: Natural Disasters. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. Obama Orders Oil and Gas Industry to Slash Methane Emissions, but There’s a C... President Obama is tackling climate change again. The White House announced its latest move on Wednesday, directing the nation’s oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions as much as 45 percent by 2025. The executive action is an important step in the fight to suppress global warming because methane emissions, while lower than carbon dioxide emissions, trap more than 25 times more heat in the atmosphere.
Environmentalists welcomed the announcement, but some suggested that the mandate falls short by applying largely to new oil- and gas-industry facilities. “While addressing new sources is a critical step, in order to get a 40 to 45 percent reduction...the Obama administration must take stronger action to clean up existing sources,” Earthjustice’s lead counsel, Tim Ballo, said in a statement. In his first term, Obama targeted carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks with improved fuel-efficiency standards. These Incredible Tiny Islands Suck Pollution Out of Water. Cleaning up dirty water has been on the agenda of many scientists lately. That’s no surprise—water pollution poses a health risk pretty much everywhere, especially in developing countries, where kids play among sewage, workers toil in muck daily, and millions die from drinking contaminated water every year.
Scotland-based Biomatrix Water offers one more innovative way to clean up the mess: installing islands that suck up pollution from the water they're floating in. The islands look and work like wetlands. Man-made structures hold together their vegetation; the pollutant-sucking process works naturally. The islands come in different shapes and sizes and can be modified to grow local greenery. Partnering with conservationists and local governments, the company has already installed the pseudo-wetlands in the Philippines, India, China, and other countries. Case Studies | Living Future. Tyson Living Learning Center | Living Future. The Living Learning Center is located at Tyson Research Center, an environmental field station for Washington University in St.
Louis. The site and building builds on the sustainable eco-systems research ongoing at Tyson. The site has been transformed from a degraded asphalt parking lot to a native landscaped garden replete with pervious concrete, local stone pavers, and a central raingarden. The building fosters indoor/outdoor education with a large multi-use classroom that opens directly out to a locally-harvested white oak deck. The building is clad with Eastern Red Cedar with siding is site-harvested.
All interior finish wood is harvested onsite. Net Zero Energy is provided by Photovoltaic panels mounted both on the roof and on two horizontal trackers. Use the icons below to find out how this project approached each Petal of the Challenge. Site condition prior to project start: Previously developed parking lot Back to Top Design tool and calculation method:EQuest, Trane TRACE 700.