When is car insurance like a pizza? How do Skinny streets help salmon? Why should phantom tollbooths haunt rush hour? Where’s the ideal spot for Granny to have a flat? And what does all this have to do with aikido? Aikido is the martial art that applies the principle of leverage to greatest effect. It is also the organizing metaphor for This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest. This slim, lively volume-first in a new Northwest Environment Watch series -takes on a weighty question: how can the Northwest create a way of life that will last? Part report, part reflection, This Place on Earth 2001 connects the dots: between costs and congestion, streets and streams, granny flats and growth. Along the way, it takes readers on a fascinating tour with some of the Northwest’s top “aikido masters,” who are -block by block, hearing by hearing, forest district by forest district – fashioning a new Northwest. - from Amzon