Current Project: WalkScore.com

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle by providing a personalized walkability rating for any address. Within one month of our July 2007 launch, over 1 million addresses were scored.

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In the Pipeline: BetterBills.org

Better Bills is a mash-up of your electricity usage data with property assessor's data to answer the question, "How does my energy use compare to my neighbors?"

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Front Seat News

Walk Score in the New York Times Green Issue - 4/20/08 - The New York Times says, "Walk Score’s popularity may be a sign that walking is making a comeback, fueled by both rising gas prices and widening waistlines."

Walk Score Named Among Top 10 Best Planning Sites - 2/21/08 - Planetizen names Walk Score one of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites.

More Fun with Payday Loans - 11/16/2007 - Andrew Leonard at Salon Magazine covers the exchange between the Predatory Lending Association and the real association of predatory lenders.

Chief Financial Correspondent of the NY Times writes about PLA - 11/13/2007 - Floyd Norris blogs about our satirical Predatory Lending Association website.

Walk Score Named One of 50 Ways Seattle Will Change the World - 10/31/2007 Read the Walk Score blog post.

Walk Score

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle. Visitors can type their address to get a personal Walk Score.

Better Bills

We proposed design improvements to the Seattle utilities bills. We are currently working on letting people compare their energy usage to their neighbors.

Predatory Lending Association

A satirical payday loan industry association with best practices for exploiting the working poor.

Kathy's Climate Kit

Kathy's Climate Kit, a Front Seat spin-off, sells gift boxes with items that help fight climate change.

Open Source Media Project

A team of editors increased the accuracy and global perspective of Wikipedia articles related to the environment and the "War on Terror."

Where's The Truth

One hundred copies of An Inconvenient Truth were distributed with the goal of tracking each DVD as it traveled across the country.

Real MPG

A prototype website for tracking your car's actual miles per gallon against the EPA miles per gallon ratings.

Neutral Fuel

A prototype for a gas station prototype where the carbon offset is priced into each gallon of gasoline.