King County Purchases 40 Battery-Powered Buses and Ponders Full Electrification by 2035
On Thursday, King County officials announced that new battery-electric buses would be hitting the streets late next year. The county is purchasing a total...
Sunday Video: How To Fix Our Unreliable Power Grid
https://youtu.be/5igJv_otlKE
America’s power grid is increasingly more strained and unreliable as weather patterns and other environmental factors become more threatening. Vox explains how these challenges...
Sunday Video: Why Don’t We Have Electric Planes Yet?
https://youtu.be/49yDycP3Pgc
Aviation is one of the fastest growing sectors of greenhouse gas emissions. But so far, there are no commercially operated electric planes that could...
Lime Trims Staff and Bikeshare Fleet but Says It’s Not Closing Up Shop… Yet
Update: Despite earlier denials, Lime announced December 24th that it was closing down its bikeshare in Seattle and pulling all its bikes by December...
Smart Cities Require Better Digital Privacy Planning
We’ve moved beyond the initial excitement about the sizzle of smart cities. The basic idea—much heralded but limited so far in practical application—is to...
Sunday Video: EPCOT–Yesterday’s City of Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hqLo4J6mrQ
Dave Amos looks at Walt Disney's unrealized tomorrow city plans (known as "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" or "EPCOT"), which were largely Modernist delusions...
Sunday Video: The Fight to Rethink (and Reinvent) Nuclear Power
https://youtu.be/poPLSgbSO6k
In this video, Vox looks at the promise of the new generation of nuclear energy and technology. While many still fear meltdowns and are...
Sound Transit Launches New Link Real-Time Arrival Information at Stations
Link light rail passengers just got a big improvement. On Tuesday, Sound Transit launched new real-time arrival information at light rail stations to provide...