Facts about the microchip, from Sightline’s handbook for designing sustainability into the heart of our lives, communities, and economies. read more »
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Food & Sustainable Living
Prove Safety First with New Chemicals
There are some 85,000 synthetic chemicals approved for commercial use today, but few have been tested for their effects on human health. We need to test them before putting them into widespread use. read more »
Fact Sheet: Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet
What’s the most energy efficient vehicle ever devised? How many calories of energy does it take to grow and ship lettuce? And other quick facts about climate solutions from Sightline’s new book, Seven Wonders. read more »
Excerpt from Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet – The Real Tomato
Facts on the real tomato, from Sightline’s handbook for designing sustainability into the heart of our lives, communities, and economies. read more »
Fact Sheet: The Bicycle – Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet
A bike is the most energy efficient vehicle ever created–and other cool facts about transportation. read more »
Fact Sheet: The Real Tomato – Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet
The tomato is botanically a fruit but legally a vegetable, and one of Sightline’s seven wondrous climate solutions. read more »
Prevent Pollution Before It Happens
A new twist on an old idea can multiply the reuse and recycling of materials and encourage manufacturers to eliminate pollution before it happens. read more »
Make Prices Tell the Truth
Prices influence billions of decisions every day. But they often ignore social and environmental effects, yielding prices that are sometimes too high and sometimes too low. To correct these flawed economics, we can tax “bads” rather than goods such as paychecks; make the polluter pay through fees and permits; and align markets with public goods. read more »
Urban Planning and Smart Growth: Building Complete, Compact Communities
Building complete, compact communities—the opposite of poorly planned sprawl—yields an impressive array of benefits including: reduced reliance on imported fuel, less need for expensive road infrastructure, fosters closer relationships among neighbors, and saves people time. read more »
Cascadia Scorecard 2004
Seven Key Trends Shaping the Northwest
Each minute in 2003 northwesterners cut one acre of the region’s forest. Every four minutes the Northwest’s population increased by one. Every 20 minutes, the population of poor northwesterners grew by one. These are small changes, but-as Cascadia Scorecard shows-over decades, such trends transform the region more dramatically than the fleeting headlines that so often makes front-page news. read more »