Tag Archives: landscape infrastructure

Infrastructure and Lifespans

[Demolition of the Trojan Power Plant, Oregon, 2006, after 16 years of service.  Image via flickr user snowbeard] “90 percent of the 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S. are already more than 20 years old and half have been operating for more than 30 years 62 nuclear powerplant have been granted 20 year extensions […]

Theory and Engineering

The Next Eco City Conference was held in Seattle this past weekend, hosted and well-curated by the University of Washington.  Delayed 2 hours on a scheduled 3.5 hour Amtrak ride from Portland to Seattle (not a rare occurrence), I just barely made it to the opening panel discussion.  Yet Amtrak’s forced subordinate relationship to the […]

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