EcoMetro

Your standard plastic fork is manufactured from a petroleum-based material and is not compostable. Housing and Food Services at University of Washington (UW) here in Seattle switched to corn-based cutlery in their cafeterias at the beginning of the 2007 school year. When I first heard this, I had to...

Soon after I learned my application was accepted as a blogger for the Seattle ecometro.com site, I started subscribing to green enewsletters and daily green etips. I was hesitant at first—my inbox has enough traffic and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep up. But I proceeded and tried to indulge my inbox...

Seattle has introduced one successful sidewalk display of solar power this past year: the plastic card taking parking meter kiosks (ignoring for a moment that they are more profitable for the City at our expense and that they eliminated many bike parking spaces previously offered by the metal pole supported...

Too often I resist, and continue to resist, picking up other people’s trash. I’ve watched too many plastic bags and newspapers continue their journey down the road without enforcing the yield or stop sign. It’s a thankless, dirty job that no one wants to do. Heck, it’s even hard for me to pick up after...