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Feet First Maps

By Matt the Engineer on February 28, 2010

I’m taking my son and niece on the light rail to find parks today, and found this resource.  It has walking maps of all of the Rainier Valley light rail stations.  It looks like it’s been around a while and people around here may already know about it, but I hadn’t so I thought I’d [...]

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Greenwashing: You're kidding me.

By Matt the Engineer on May 30, 2009

In this month’s Performance Bicycles catalog there’s a bicycle jersey made of petroleum products with an overweight character symbolizing a non-recyclable petroleum product that’s a key component to internal combustion vehicles, responsible for most of the greenhouse gas emissions in our region. But he’s touching a plant, so I guess that makes it green. I’m sure the type of person that bicycles in Seattle will pay $85 for that.

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