Stories from The Emerald Alliance
A Gem of an Opportunity
From my sixth floor office high on a hill above downtown Seattle, I can see the great Pacific Northwest wilderness in nearly every direction. The iconic forests that blanket the Olympic and Cascade Mountains…
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In a more crowded Seattle, Discovery Park provides a lesson — Can density and open space co-exist?
The story about Discovery Park in Seattle (via Crosscut) contains a history lesson in Seattle’s development that is just as timely today given the incredible pace of growth across the city and the region. It reinforces why the…
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Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?
It has been over 20 years since the publication of two seminal works that introduced the idea that our natural environment provides us ecosystem services and that those services are highly valuable…
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