A great BoingBoing post about declassified submarine manuals reminded me that visiting the Soviet-era Russian Cobra would have been a good thing to do with my Cold-War-era Dad who’s visiting from Iowa sometime in September. Fortunately, there’s more to satisfy his myopic American history interests in the area, all of which I’ve somehow managed [...]

Source: LJ post, traced photo url to user ‘tfinsea’ at photobucket.com.

Looking for people to relate to? A cause to contribute to? A passtime to occupy you? You’ll find no shortage of options here in Seattle. Although each group surely deserves its own post, here’s brief listing of what’s out there:

SeattleCriticalMass.org- join bike riders every last Friday of the month to ride [...]

I did a search via bloglines and found quite a few Seattle-related blogs. Considering the size of our metropolis and its status as a technology capitol, I was suprised to find so few. I’ll be searching other blog directories later!

Moreover.com - offers a Seattle Top Stories news feed. This could get overwhelming [...]

Volunteer Park
1247 15th Ave. E (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps)
Seattle, Washington 98112
Independence From Oil Day Parade- Well, being the bus girl that I am I’m excited to see any efforts that support mass transit and alternative modes. I think I’ll rollerskate. From their site independencefromoil.org:

On July 3rd all interested people are invited to converge [...]

The SMP (Seattle Monorail Project) has released details of their contract with Cascadia Monorail Co. to build the Seattle monorail from Ballard to West Seattle by December 1, 2010. During the next three weeks you have an opportunity to share your opinions about the basic design features and project finances.
The Municipal League [...]

Jan Gehl addressed this question last night during his talk at the Seattle Public Library’s centerpiece building, the Central Library at 1000 Fourth Ave. The seventh event in the Urban Sustainability Forum program, it was co-sponsered by International Sustainable Solutions and the City of Seattle and is part of the Mayor’s Center City Seattle [...]

For those of you interested in urban natural history as well as native plants, David Williams will be reading from his new book, The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle.
The book consists of 12 personal essays about natural history in the city. Topics range from drinking water to building stone geology to crows [...]

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