Slog - Comments on Seattle Greendrinks Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks The awesome, wonky, and awesomely wonky Sightline Institute (which I still think of as Northwest Environment Watch) will be hosting the monthly Greendrinks event at Vulcan's South Lake Union Discovery Center (101 Westlake Ave. N) tonight starting around 5:30pm. Come and talk environmentalism, sprawl, and transportation with some of the region's smartest enviro thinkers and activists, including Sightline research director and viaduct obsessive Clark Williams-Derry, whose collected analysis of Seattle's six-year-old viaduct debate can now be found here.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:13:06 -0800 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by just sayin Although Sightline is a fine organization, I have a hard time with the "awesomely wonky" label at least when it comes to transportation.

This organization has a history of opposing Sound Transit and light rail. To this day they refuse to praise or even acknowledge Sound Transit. I don't get it. Yet they were lapdog supporters of the elevated Monorail despite its shortcomings in urban design and utility. Once again, I don't get it. Neither do they, I suspect.

I am always surprised that they post so infrequently on transportation issues given the other fine work they do on sprawl and the environment.

]]> just sayin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c586584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c586584 Politics Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:05:48 -0800 Comment by Abbey i'm sorry, but does anyone else find it sickly ironic that this is being held at Vulcan's "discover south lake union" center. They try to act like that place is a park or information center, but it's a sales center... and for what? All those buildings Vulcan is profiting off of while gentrifying SLU and contribuing to sprawl.

]]> Abbey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c586659 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c586659 Politics Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:42:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Hey, I have an idea! Let's spend twice as much as we need to on roads and build an underwater tunnel with no transit, no downtown exit, and further subsidize autos!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c587031 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/seattle_greendrinks#c587031 Politics Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:58 -0800