Accolades

"Sightline is a powerful voice with reliable and useful information. One of the most important in our region. Their research and analysis has a real impact on our decision-making." -- Sam Sullivan
, Former Mayor, Vancouver, BC

"As we work on the Portland Plan, our city's 25-year road map, the Sightline Cascadia Scorecard has been our model. The combination of indicators and real-world data is a powerful tool to continually strive to improve our city and our region." -- Sam Adams
, Mayor, Portland, OR

"You guys never cease to amaze me, always coming up with good ideas." -- Gary Chittim
, Reporter, KING 5 TV, Seattle, WA

"It is exceptionally rare to find an organization with a team that is consistently of such high caliber in knowledge, execution, and integrity as well as overall fun and great people. I never cease to be amazed by the quality and quantity of Sightline's work.
" -- Mark Kotzer
, Washington Resident

"Sightline is the epitome of what it means to think about the future--not just to react to events but to aim for the possible and the necessary." -- Bill Mckibben
, Writer

"Sightline has made me reevaluate the way I live." -- Jennifer Davies
, Duvall, WA

"Positive thinking isn't just an afterthought at Sightline." -- Jennifer Hoffman
, Seattle, WA

"[Sightline provides] the information I want, at the level I need, in the format I have the time and energy to use." -- Robert McMinn
, Boise, ID

"Awesome, wonky, and awesomely wonky Sightline Institute." -- Erica Barnett
, The Stranger

"Durning and the Sightline staff  . . .  want to change our American system so doing the right thing is also the cheapest, easiest, and most fun thing." -- William Dietrich
, Pacific Northwest Magazine

"Sightline is unique in its data-driven, big-picture strategy." -- Eli Lamb
, Social Venture Partners, Portland, OR

"If the Stranger News Team handed out Genius Awards, another candidate in the 'Political Group' category would be Sightline."

-- Josh Feit
, News Editor, The Stranger

"Sightline Institute's Cascadia Scorecard gives us powerful measures reaching many aspects of our lives." -- Bill Bradbury
, Oregon Secretary of State

"Sightline is the best one-stop information source for finding out about sustainability in the Northwest. Their level of analysis and clear reporting is unparalleled. I recommend Sightline to my colleagues in the sustainability field regardless of where they live since I think Sightline is a great model of regional sustainability monitoring."

-- Beth Meredith
, Co-founder - Sustainable Petaluma

"I applaud Sightline for its pioneering work on the Cascadia Scorecard. It provides a long-range view of the trends that shape our state, which offers us new perspectives and helps us make informed decisions about our future."

-- Gary Locke
, Former Washington State Governor