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Rising Hope: Teen birth rate at record lows
One of Cascadia’s great successes in recent decades has been a steep but little-heralded decline in teen births—heartening progress toward a future in which all children are born wanted. Recent changes in teens’ use of contraception do not match the statistical magnitude of plunging teen pregnancy and birth rates. Something else must be at work. That something else is most likely a rise in motivation among teens to avoid pregnancy, and that’s profoundly encouraging news. Read more.

My Backyard Bog: Smart landscaping for rainy days
After 27 consecutive rainy days, Sightline researcher Eric de Place is hatching plans for the lake that was once his backyard. Instead of stocking it with trout, he’s going to landscape his way out of the problem. Landscaping for rain water minimizes environmental impacts, keeps your home dry, and can create a backyard haven out of your saturated soils. For tips and resources for landscaping for storm-water management, go here.

Events in Cascadia:
3/3/06, Boise, ID: Idaho Sustainability, What Will It Take? Alan Durning's keynote address at the Idaho Environmental Education Summit, will cover Idaho's record on key trends critical to it's future, and will discuss steps the region can take to move these trends in the right direction. Friday, March 3, 7pm, Boise State University. Go here for more information.

3/3/06, Boise, ID: Measuring What Matters: The Cascadia Scorecard. In a lunch presentation at the Idaho Environmental Forum, Alan Durning will report on how Idaho stacks up and what trends we should really be measuring. Friday, March 3, 12pm. Email leigh@sightline.org for more information.

2/15/06, Seattle, WA: Plastic Promises: Better Living or Bodily Harm? The second in the Our Health, Our Environment: Making the Link lecture series, Frederick vom Saal, PhD, will present research on the health effects of low-dose exposures to the endocrine-disrupting chemicals in some plastics. For more information, go to the Institute for Children's Environmental Health website.

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