Vital Nature: Metro budget cuts

May 21, 2013 0

King County’s Metro is projected to face tremendous budget shortfalls in 2014, with route reduction and deletions that will affect two out of three routes. Metro depends on sales tax

Vital Nature: Let your voice be heard

May 4, 2013 0

Let your voice be heard, Washington! The work of legislative representatives has one key ambition: to represent you. Their objective is to reach consensus regarding a wide range of issues

Vital Nature: Water Monopoly

April 29, 2013 0

You’re thirsty. Imagine yourself plucking a dollar from your wallet, slipping it into a machine that slurps it up, and watch a plastic water bottle plop into a cache that

Vital Nature: Algae Power!

April 22, 2013 0

The “bioreactor façade” of the BIQ building of Hamburg, Germany is a crusader of its era. A holistic energy course, the building is suited with panels—which are actually thin tanks

Vital Nature: Vitamin Deficiencies

April 15, 2013 0

In a country where “super-sized” meals have become the new standard, and where more than one-third of U.S. adults are clinically obese, it could be astonishing that nutrient deficiencies are

Vital Nature: Bacteriophages

April 8, 2013 0

Bacteriophages have been utilized by humanity within agricultural, medical and dietary fields of experimentation and implementation for decades. After recent strikes of rebellion by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they are reemerging in

Vital Nature: Superbugs

March 18, 2013 0

The issue of drug resistance is as old as antibiotics themselves, as it occurs when drugs kill susceptible infections, leaving resilient strains behind. The survivors reproduce and re-infest, and pose

Vital Nature: Pollution, otters and whales

March 11, 2013 0

Since the “save the whales” movement popularized and trending onwards from around the ‘70s, a large chunk of environmental attention has been paid to both marine and fresh water creatures.