http://daily.sightline.org News & Views for a Sustainable Northwest Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved editor@sightline.org ask_us@sightline.org http://daily.sightline.org/wp-content/themes/SightlineDaily/images/logo-feed.png http://daily.sightline.org 144 21 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/LfeNd8ZETUk/growth-of-northwest-tribes-outpaces-general-population-96906 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 Indian Country Today Membership in Northwest tribes has grown faster than the general population, reports NPR. This growth has strained some tribes and strengthened others. The natural increase of the population is one percent a year. Tribes in the Northwest have grown by two or three times as much over the past decade.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/LfeNd8ZETUk" height="1" width="1"/> http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/09/growth-of-northwest-tribes-outpaces-general-population-96906 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/vcrdhqJZFqE/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 New York Times Any cyclist who pedals around San Francisco will soon learn about the Wiggle, a bicycle route that weaves a delightfully flat path across this city of hills. Soon San Franciscans will have a new option for navigating the local terrain without breaking a sweat or resorting to a car, thanks to a pioneering federally financed electric bike share program that will start up this year.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/vcrdhqJZFqE" height="1" width="1"/> http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/a-bay-area-experiment-in-electric-bike-sharing/?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;utm_source=Sightline+Newsletters&#038;utm_campaign=5f5c8e46c6-SightlineDaily&#038;utm_medium=email http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/JbuXMMxfD5U/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 The Tyee A mere 70 workers came to the province in 2004, the first year that the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) was available to B.C. farmers. The number of SAWP jobs approved by HRSDC reached a plateau in 2009, and has remained since at about 3,500 positions a year -- placing British Columbia employers slightly ahead of Quebec (3,330 workers) and a distant second to Ontario (18,325) in use of the program.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/JbuXMMxfD5U" height="1" width="1"/> http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/02/10/Toiling-In-BCs-Fields/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/QQDq9A6s-uk/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Toronto Globe and Mail In a city filled with pot-bellied monster homes and barn-sized penthouse condos, the architects of a new Vancouver project have devised a svelte alternative: the micro-loft.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/QQDq9A6s-uk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/architecture/architecture-features/on-vancouvers-east-side-max-living-in-micro-space/article2332410/?utm_medium=Feeds:%20RSS/Atom&#038;utm_source=British%20Columbia&#038;utm_content=2332410 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/RhwPLmK1TEQ/february-9-2012-toxic-hot-spot-gets.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Green Acre Radio After years of study, one of the region’s toxic hot spots just got a major make over. It didn’t come cheap. The total cost was a cool eight million. But the clean up demonstrated that an urban waterway can be home to both industry and nature.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/RhwPLmK1TEQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://greenacreradio.blogspot.com/2012/02/february-9-2012-toxic-hot-spot-gets.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/P9xdULpO3jw/story.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Victoria Times Colonist The federal government is legally bound to protect killer whale critical habitat, the federal Court of Appeal ruled Thursday. The precedent-setting ruling, which follows a federal court decision last April, could affect fishing and vessel traffic in the Strait of Georgia and Juan de Fuca Strait — critical habitat for endangered southern resident killer whales — and the Queen Charlotte Strait and Johnstone Strait — critical habitat for threatened northern resident killer whales.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/P9xdULpO3jw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Government+must+protect+orca+habitat+court/6130598/story.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/JXR06xe15Zo/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Oregon Public Broadcasting Olympic National Park’s mountain goat population has hit a 20-year peak, according to new research findings out today.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/JXR06xe15Zo" height="1" width="1"/> http://earthfix.opb.org/flora-and-fauna/article/mountain-goat-population-on-the-rise-in-olympic-na/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/LMJTEYufzUM/new-cost-for-hanford-cleanup-projected.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Tri-City Herald The new price tag for completing the remainder of Hanford nuclear reservation cleanup, plus some post-cleanup oversight, is $112 billion. Typical annual Hanford budgets are closer to $2 billion, although an extra $1.96 billion was available from federal economic stimulus money.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/LMJTEYufzUM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/02/09/1819305/new-cost-for-hanford-cleanup-projected.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/FiMdHAtky-8/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 Grist Any discussion about the sustainability of salmon is no longer limited to analyzing the numbers of fish pulled from sea. Each winter, salmon return to rivers and creeks in the Pacific Northwest to spawn, but if these waterways are impacted by surburban spawl or pollution from agricultural runoff (as shown here), their numbers are dramatically reduced. In some cases, salmon simply don’t return to spawn at all.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/FiMdHAtky-8" height="1" width="1"/> http://grist.org/sustainable-food/lexicon-of-sustainability-salmon-safe/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~3/_3SfIrDVato/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 UT San Diego America has too many big houses -- 40 million, to be exact -- because consumers are shifting preferences to condos, apartments and small homes, experts told the New Partners for Smart Growth Thursday, holding its 11th annual conference in San Diego through Sunday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sightline/fHib/~4/_3SfIrDVato" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/feb/02/us-overbuilt-big-houses-planners-find/