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Welcome to Seattle: don’t break anything

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Welcome to the Emerald City.

Can you move here in an ethical way? Can Jeff Bezos save the planet in an ethical way (or at all?)

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How to be an ethical transplant to Seattle

How can you be a good Seattleite? What should you know about the city when you move here? We ask Samantha Allen, who wrote the essay, "What does a transplant owe to Seattle?" and Ishea Brown, local blogger at Six Twenty Seven.

How to spend $10 billion on climate change

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is pledging $10 billion to fight climate change. What should he spend it on? We ask Nives Dolšak, director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington.

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