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SEATTLE — Officials with the state and city of Seattle on Thursday launched a renewed effort to plant trees in urban areas most affected by pollution, flooding and other extreme weather events, like t
“We are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”
For Native communities, the reclamation of land goes hand in hand with the reclamation of identity. by In Washington, the Native-led land reclamation movement is thriving, from Indigenous farming projects within cities to fundraisers meant to buy back ancestral homelands. (Clockwise from top left: Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut and Taylor Hensel for Crosscut) As a non-Native person, I thought the idea behind the “Land Back” movement seemed fairly simple. After all, the goal is in the name: Native communities want their ancestral homelands back under their ownership. I’d heard of efforts i...
by Kshama Sawant* • Jan 22, 2021 at 9:30 am People need the time to catch up on back rent. ABLOKHIN / GETTYIMAGES.COM A tsunami of evictions will hit Seattle in the coming year without bold action by the Seattle City Council. Tens of thousands of evictions, disproportionately in communities of color, will likely overwhelm the courts, shelters, and streets, as people lose their homes. This would be a human catastrophe on a scale that the city hasn’t seen in a century, on top of the unprecedented economic costs that our city would be forced to bear ...
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 11th of December in recent years....the 122 bi...