http://www.sightline.org Since 1993, Sightline staff have published dozens of articles and op-eds in publications in the Northwest and nationally. Here are a few of our most recent. daily 1 2006-02-12T06:14:54Z http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/the-great-clog-of-07-seattle-met-the-challenge We've just experienced our own version of the Y2K bug: the partial closure of Interstate 5, the state's most trafficked highway, on a crowded stretch leading into the heart of the most concentrated employment district in the state. No publisher elisa 2007-09-04T06:50:45Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/car-less-in-seattle Pedestrian pioneer Alan Durning describes what his family of five is learning by living without four wheels in Cascadia's largest city. Can they survive without the essential currency of the modern American community? No publisher mackenzie_sightline_org carless pedestrian friendly 2007-02-05T07:18:39Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/dangerous-future-if-roe-is-overturned In 1973, when my sister was 12 and I was 8, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that decisions about early abortions are private ones protected by the Constitution. Now, my own daughter is 12 and the odds are greater than ever that the rightward-shifting court will overturn Roe. By Alan Durning. No publisher elisa landing page Cascadia Scorecard 2006 2007-02-25T08:13:40Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/airbus-green-hat Boeing and Airbus' newest airplanes reflect different approaches to how climate change might affect future business. No publisher andrewb 2006-10-18T17:25:33Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/accounting-101-for-endangered-species Dust off your sense of outrage, fellow taxpaying Americans. Endangered species are freeloading to the tune of $1.4 billion in state and federal spending, according to a new report from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. No publisher melissa 2006-03-23T22:10:03Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/making-our-cities-fuel-efficient With gas prices that reached new, wallet-straining heights last year, fuel efficiency is back in vogue. But perhaps we need to pay as much attention to urban design. No publisher melissa 2007-02-05T07:16:56Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/another-accounting-scandal-gdp On February 28, government statisticians will release their preliminary estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2005. Investors and policymakers will watch this semi-official national report card for the effects of Christmas sales and dipping gasoline prices. No publisher melissa 2006-05-24T06:11:20Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/increasing-orca-population-is-a-sign We are often besieged with bad news about the failing health of Puget Sound. With all the gloom and doom, it's easy to forget that we can repair the damage we've done to our ecosystems. No publisher andrewb pcb water wildlife salmon orcas 2007-02-25T09:16:48Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/the-new-pcb Flame retardant toxins show up in BC mothers' bodies. No publisher andrewb pcb Flame Retardants in the Bodies of Pacific Northwest Residents pbdes 2007-02-20T08:03:20Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/stop-rewarding-guzzlers Canada's plans for reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol remain two bits short of a loonie. But one word buried deep in the recent federal budget holds the key to realizing Canada's climate promise: "feebates." No publisher andrewb gas prices sprawlhealth 2007-04-11T01:37:17Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/2005-anniversary-matters In all the hoopla over the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition--an expedition that survived only because it was rescued repeatedly by one Indian tribe after another, especially here in Cascadia--there's so far been a deafening silence over another anniversary that's upon us. No publisher andrewb native americans 2006-04-11T00:19:41Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/current-thinking-vigilant-efficiency The Northwest's energy system, long among the region's greatest strengths, has become one of its greatest security vulnerabilities. A lone terrorist could bring the Northwest's economy to its knees for days; an organized band could make it weeks or months. No publisher andrewb sprawlhealth 2007-04-11T01:37:17Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/bc-recycles-better One important but little-discussed difference between the Canadian and American parts of Cascadia is their different philosophies about trash. This difference has emerged in the last decade. And, sad to say, the Canadians have left the Americans in the dustbin, so to speak. No publisher andrewb recycling 2006-03-16T08:38:19Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/down-road-driving-tax Americans, and Californians above all, live in a motor-head democracy. More adults hold driver's licenses than voter cards, and taxes on automobiles have been disappearing as fast as Democrats from the U.S. Senate. No publisher andrewb landing page sprawlhealth 2007-04-11T01:37:16Z Press Clip http://www.sightline.org/press/sightline_news/fate-state-forests Over the next year, a half-dozen people in Olympia will decide the fate of forests vast enough to fill Mount Rainier National Park nearly nine times over. No publisher andrewb fsc 2006-03-16T08:38:19Z Press Clip