Blow: Climate Change and Mental Health

Blow: Climate Change and Mental Health

Ashi Blow (@ashliblow)  writes for Crosscut about the impacts of climate change on the mental health of people in the Seattle area, as floods become commonplace in South Park, wildfire smoke causes breathing difficulties and forces people inside in late summer, and we...
Brenner: Nature and the City

Brenner: Nature and the City

Look around, Seattleites! Kelly Brenner has a new book, Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World, to help us savor the wildlife around us that we ignore as we solowheel around our city. Kelly’s guide to urban flora and fauna from Mountaineers Books is out...
Williams: Award Finalist

Williams: Award Finalist

Congratulations to David B. Williams, former NSWA president! David’s book, Waterway The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal, written with Jennifer Ott and the staff of HistoryLink, is a finalist for the Washington Center for the Book nonfiction award for...
Miller: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Miller: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

If you think Seattle is getting stormier, you’re right. Stephen R. Miller, writing in CityLab, reports on research results and climate model predictions that show that rains are heavier in our region than in decades past. Read Stephen’s article and be...