Author: Michael Shank

Talking at the Border

HIMAL MAGAZINE 02/03 By Michael Shank Michael Shank is a theatre artist who served as a conference facilitator at Focus on South Asia, a ‘youth peace conference’ organised by the Youth Initiative for Peace in Lahore in mid-December 2002. The conference was attended by 35 girls and boys from all […]

BPA’s Power-Line Plan Raises Controversy

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 03/26/2002 THE ISSUE The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing to build a nine-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line across the Cedar River watershed, which provides pure drinking water to 1.3 million people in King and Snohomish counties. The federal agency wants to install 40 new towers to run adjacent to […]

Troubled Waters

Seattle Weekly 03/20/2002 By Kevin Fullerton SLEET SIZZLED on the high-voltage power lines overhead as a contingent of Seattle city officials and environmentalists stood on a bluff overlooking the Cedar River—whose mountain rapids supply most of Seattle’s drinking water—and sized up their hosts from the Bonneville Power Administration. City officials, […]

Hawks’ ‘Hugger’ Does His Part

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 01/30/2002 LaBounty makes radio pitch to save old-growth forests By Clare Farnsworth Coming soon to a radio station near you … Matt LaBounty extolling the virtues of preserving old-growth forests. What else would you expect from the Seahawks’ part-time defensive end and full-time environmental advocate, who has been […]