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Glimpses: “Summer Rain”

Chelsea — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:09:36 +0000

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.” – Sherman Alexie Thanks to dreaming_of_rivers for the Flickr pool addition. You are reading an excerpt from Glimpses: "Summer Rain".The SunBreak supports RSS for you diehard RSS readers out there.

How Green is Your Hotel?

Michael van Baker — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:21:16 +0000

To find out more about sustainability at hotels, I set up a meeting with Molly Phillips, the Global Responsibility Manager at the 160-room Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. You might be surprised to learn that a luxury hotel has someone directing sustainability efforts--I was. Was it just greenwashing? But Phillips is an alumnus ('08) of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, where she got her MBA in Sustainable Business. And she's serious about closing waste streams.

$80 Seattle Car Tab Fee Unites Greens That Tunnel Split Asunder

Michael van Baker — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:32:18 +0000

Over on Mayor McGinn's blog, there's an interesting entry in the post titled "Community support grows for investing in Seattle’s transit future." A group with environmental leanings has reunited in favor of the $80 vehicle licensing fee, the same people who not so long ago had a public falling out over the "greenery" of the deep-bore tunnel.