Slow-motion revolution: What makes the impossible become inevitable? In this year-end essay, Sightline executive director Alan Durning sets the campaign for a sustainable economy and way of life beside similarly ambitious causes of the past, such as emancipation and suffrage, and finds reasons for optimism. History shows that an unarguable principle and a small corps of dedicated people can slowly but surely change the course of the future. Read Alan Durning’s essay.

Mapping a century of growth in three Oregon cities: Oregon is often held up as a model for its land-use policies, established in the 1970s. But have such policies really made a difference in how the state's cities have grown? Our new series of animated maps, which show settlement in select Oregon cities since 1900, suggests the answer is yes. See the difference in the spread of development since 1980, when Oregon's land-use policies began to take effect.

Go to Portland map.
Go to Salem map.
Go to Corvallis map.

The season of giving back: Sightline staff would adore the holidays for the sugar cookies alone, but it’s the enhanced sense of connection among people, and to nature, that defines the season for us. We’ve come up with a list of gifts to encourage community involvement and connection—instead of consumption. Read more.

Sightline Profile: Peter and Pam Hayes connect Northwest communities to forests
Does your wood furniture and flooring come from a Northwest forest that is managed for long-term health? Most of us probably don’t know. Longtime Sightline friends Peter and Pam Hayes, who manage 800 acres of sustainably managed forests in Oregon, aim to change that with a strategy called community-connected forestry. Read more.

Thanks to our fall fund drive supporters! Of course, it's never too late to pitch in and support Sightline's analysis, research, and outreach. Get your 2005 tax deduction by making a year-end gift today. You can donate online here.

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Green motivation: Are greenies motivated as much by price as by principle?

Your money or your life? BC chooses life.

Electrify transportation: Guest blogger Rich Feldman on plug-in electric hybrid vehicles.

Legalizing granny flats

So long caribou

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