This Growing 'Green' City May Be The Front Line In Climate Change Battle

"That doesn't even look like a boat. How does it float?"

Elizabeth Spence, 8, peered through a chain-link fence at a massive yellow drilling rig, newly docked a short stretch away. Her dad had brought her here on Thursday evening to check out the latest addition to the Seattle waterfront and to add some local context to a current topic of study in Elizabeth's third-grade class: climate change.