By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Imagine the alarm if all of your plastic bags united together and emerged from the depths of your kitchen drawer to form one super bag. For many Puget Sound residents this haunting thought has already become a reality.
A shocking howl rang out across the steps of the Capitol as [...]

It is amazing how 200 years can really change a place. This past weekend, I rode the train from Seattle to Portland. Long ignored and considered to be past its prime, my choice of travel was based on nothing more than sale fares on Amtrak. However, I would ride it again and pay three [...]

By Sound News reporter Christina Madden
A dike, salmon and tide gates may seem like simple places and things for some people, but for Delta Farmers in Skagit Valley and the Swinomish Tribe members these words represent much more.
On February 26th I spoke with individuals from both sides of the controversy.
Salmon fishing is “a way of [...]

I have recently read an interesting article about a long-time dispute that I had no idea was going on.  The article was in the Seattle Times by Michelle Ma.  
For the past 15 years there has been a dispute between a “coalition of neighbors numbering in the hundreds” and Taylor Shellfish.  Taylor Shellfish is a [...]

The ‘King County Walk the Line’ Tour on Sunday welcomed me into the Carnation community and firsthand showed me the Carnation Tree Farm. Although it was muddy and cold, I was eager to learn more about this farm’s green conservation practices. I was introduced to the owner Roger Thorson, who highlighted the green initiative the [...]

By Sound News reporter Christina Madden
A cancer causing air pollutant will soon be reduced from the air in Seattle according to the Environmental Protection Agency.  This reduction is expected to lower the incidence of health effects according to the EPA, who announced a grant to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agencyof $850,000 in order to [...]

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 [...]

A recent survey indicates that people living on the water are more resistant to making changes that would help fish and wildlife. Conducted by the City of Bellevue, the 2008 poll shows that even though 60% of the City’s shoreline residents think more should be done to protect and restore shorelines, almost half are opposed [...]