By Sound News Reporter Maggie Murdoch
King County sees the climate and economic crises we now face in the holistic sense of the word crisis.  While linguists debate the truth behind the common saying that the Chinese character for crisis is made up of the characters for danger and opportunity, King County’s Director of Strategic Planning [...]

by Sounds News reporter Maggie Murdoch
OLYMPIA - It was a beautiful, sparkling day at the capitol.  Hundreds of environmental activists gathered for Environmental Lobby Day to let legislators know that the people who vote for them demand courageous action on our most pressing environmental concerns.  Suits mingled with hippies, students with politicians.  Four priorities were [...]

For the past eight plus years,  I believed that government was largely incompetent and stupid in regards to climate change, and society was going to slowly boil itself under a blanket of greenhouse gases.  Okay, maybe this is a little dramatic–there are leaders that understand the danger of our current trajectory, and people committed to [...]

By Sound News reporter Maggie Murdoch
The City of Seattle has a grand vision for Magnuson Park, that jewel of open space in NE Seattle along the western shores of Lake Washington.  Work restoring the natural beauty and social vitality of the park’s 360 acres has been underway since 1965, when the U.S. Navy base formerly [...]

By Sound News reporter Maggie Murdoch
Sitting around the dinner table in early 2008, Joann Kerr, Susan Gregory, and Carol Kibble had a realization.  Major environmental problems faced the Puget Sound and indeed, the world, but they did not know how to tackle those issues alone.  Kerr, Gregory, and Kibble, all mothers, worried about what the [...]