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  Start Your Holiday Shopping Swapping

  By Michelle Hainer | Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:22 AM ET

  year, many Americans can't afford to cross everything off their loved ones' wish lists. So what's a cash-strapped consumer to do?If you're in the Seattle area on Nov. 21, buy a ticket to the Holiday Home Accessories Swap. It's an ecologically — and economically — friendly event sponsored b Read More

  More like this in: Recycle, Shopping, Christmas, Interior Design, Holiday Shopping, Business, Life & Style, Good Ideas, Retail
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  Future Homes to Have Greener Roofs

  By Steve Tanner | Fri Oct 9, 2009 7:36 PM ET

  life to help regulate a home's temperature without burning heating oil or firing up the AC. One of the better living roof designs was created by Seattle-based LMN Architects and is featured on the Vancouver Convention Centre. About 400,000 indigenous plants live on top of the six-acre roo Read More

  More like this in: Energy, Global Warming, Eco-Friendly, Solar Energy, Technology, Science, Green Tech, Energy, Environment, Home & Garden
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  Burger King's Royal Revamp

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Fri Oct 9, 2009 12:10 PM ET

  and good, but we have just one question: We’ll still be able to ask for a burger with five patties, right? Photo courtesy K Ballard, vi Read More

  More like this in: Starbucks, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, US, Business, Retail, Food & Drink
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  Bark and Run: Get Fit with Fido

  By Jac Chebatoris | Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:03 PM ET

  is a win-win situation: you get to hang with cute dogs and they get a break from the none-too-cozy shelter life.Don't worry if you don't live in Seattle. You can call up your local shelter and ask if they would be interested in a similar program, or offer your volunteer services.[Vi Read More

  More like this in: Volunteerism, Life & Style, Animals & Pets
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  iPhone Games for Toddlers?

  By Steve Tanner | Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:31 PM ET

  to do while you ride in the shopping cart with Dad? Now you can play one of several toddler-friendly games on your iPhone, just released by Seattle-based software company Jackson Fish Market. That's right, now toddlers can stare blankly at a tiny screen while looking utterly bored wit Read More

  More like this in: Children, iPhone, Babies, TechCrunch, Technology, Life & Style, Gadgets, Family
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  Pittsburgh Steels for the G-20

  By Ben Corbett | Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:24 AM ET

  L. Lawrence Convention Center Thursday and Friday, September 24-25, with a focus on the global economic crisis.Recalling the rioting and fallout in Seattle during the 1999 WTO trade summit, host cities now tend to batten down the hatches when global finance and trade forums roll into town. T Read More

  More like this in: Starbucks, Barack Obama, Police, Pittsburgh, G-20, Democratic National Convention, National Guard
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  Trashy Travels

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:04 PM ET

  the good folks at MIT plan to display the routes of various items of trash both in real time (online) and in exhibitions opening in New York and Seattle. The hope for the project is to raise awareness among individuals of the impact one person's trash can have on the environment. "If you se Read More

  More like this in: New York, The New York Times, Garbage, Science, Environment
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  Garbage Gumshoes

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:41 PM ET

  beginning at Seattle's Central Library this Friday. The exhibit will illustrate the details of how about half of the 89,608 tons of waste that Seattleites discard annually gets to the landfill. The rest is recycled, reused or composted. However, studies from 2006 suggest that aroun Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Recycle, Associated Press, Coffee, Compost, Garbage, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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  Swim Across America for Cancer Research

  By John Casey | Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:57 PM ET

  about 25 minutes.Miller and company swam two miles near Mercer Island’s Mercerwood Shore Club.Funds from the event go to support research at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, which includes the adult and pediatric cancer-care services of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattl Read More

  More like this in: Children's Hospital, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Social Responsibility, Volunteerism, Fundraising, Events, Activism
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  Pros Go Pro Bono

  By Katherine Gustafson | Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  idle employee hands to work, to network and to get greater bang from a firm's charitable bucks.”Back to our idle architect, the article discusses Seattle's CAST Architecture, which decided in March to do pro bono work to design the proposed Fremont Center, a building that will bring gree Read More

  More like this in: YouTube, Architecture, Housing, Forbes, Partnerships, Business, Social Responsibility, Good Ideas, Economy, Giving, Volunteerism, Activism