Recent Publications
Sightline regularly publishes books, columns, commentary, and reports--many of them available in full text.
Sightline regularly publishes books, columns, commentary, and reports--many of them available in full text.
Alan Durning's award-winning work, This Place on Earth, Home and the Practice of Permanence, is now available in a free pdf!
We highly encouraging sharing Sightline ideas in all their forms--just give us credit. See our "free use policy."
- Books
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Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet 2008
A handbook for designing sustainability into the very heart of our lives, communities, and economies. -
Cascadia Scorecard 2007 2007
The 2007 edition of the Cascadia Scorecard, the Pacific Northwest’s annual progress report, reveals that the region lags behind world leaders on trends such as energy, sprawl, and economic security. The good news is that we are making progress—and adopting smart solutions will accelerate those gains.
- Reports
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I-985: Giant Sucking Sound 10/05/2008
Sightline analysis finds that Tim Eyman's so-called "reduce traffic initiative" would actually increase traffic, slow transit, and redirect hundreds of millions of dollars from the state general fund to highway expansion in greater Seattle. -
Cap and Trade 101 09/17/2008
Sightline's primer sorts out the details on what's emerging as the most popular and comprehensive policy solution to the enormous challenge of climate change: cap and trade
- Enewsletters
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Cascadia Scorecard News - October 2008 10/03/2008
Cap and trade for dummies; I-985; Sightline's in Fashion; best of the blog. -
Tag Along 105 - Architecture in Upstate New York 08/04/2008
Builders, designers and architects in the 19th-and early 20th-century, it would seem, didn’t know how to do “ugly.”
- Articles by Sightline
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The Great Clog of '07: Seattle Met the Challenge , Seattle Times, 08/30/2007
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. -
Car-less In Seattle , Planetizen.com, 07/18/2006
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?
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