Mayor Greg Nickels

Last Friday, our very own Mayor Greg Nickels shared top honors with some Indiana dude in the 2008 Mayors’ US Conference of Mayors/ Wal-Mart Stores Climate Protection Awards Program for his "outstanding and innovative practices to increase energy efficiency... and to help curb global warming." Learning of this, suddenly it all became clear. All his strange behavior lately, his obsession with banning plastic bags, plastic bottles, polystyrene, and beach bonfires, and his pushing compact... Read Full Story

There’s nothing that induces green guilt like bottled water. You can make the bottle live again by refilling it and taking it to work with you, but it stares back up at you from your desk, whispering perniciously “you still bought me, didn’t you? you think tap water’s not good enough eh, Mr Big Shot? You think your itinerant thirst is more important than the environment, don’t you, you freaking eco-criminal? Shame on you! Shame!” Until you have to recycle it to stop the terrible accusations... Read Full Story

A Birdseye View of the U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement Recently, the mayor of Seattle, Washington, upset with the Bush’s administration’s reluctance to accept the finding of scientist’s worldwide findings concerning global warming, has taken it into his own hands to do something about this growing threat, and other major city mayors are quickly falling suit. The city of Seattle had crafted a climate protection agreement that is intended to acknowledge the climate change is it calls... Read Full Story

SAT APRIL 5 - SAT MAY 31 Mayor Greg Nickels is calling on residents, schools and businesses to sign up and participate in Spring Clean 2008, combining the energy and enthusiasm of the community with city resources to make Seattle’s neighborhoods beautiful. Spring Clean is part of Mayor Nickels Clean & Green Seattle Initiative. Spring Clean activities include painting out graffiti, picking up litter and illegally dumped materials, stenciling storm drains, cleaning school yards, removing... Read Full Story

In response to a shooting, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels recently signed an executive order to ban guns at all city owned property. I guess he thinks that if the city places a sign on the wall banning... Read Full Story