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Northwest Gas Projects Fuel the Fracking Beast
Methanol, LNG, and power plants drive Canada’s gas industry.
Hurricane Harvey Highlights Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Loopholes
Lessons for the Northwest’s disaster preparedness.
Video: How to Build an Inclusive and Livable Puget Sound
Alan Durning joins Seattle mayoral and city council candidates to discuss growth and affordability. -
Weekend Reading 10/13/17
Clean energy discoveries, tools to teach without omitting tribal perspective, gerrymanderproofing, and lots more.
Video: How Can We Strengthen Our Democracy and Climate Movements?
Sightline’s Tarika Powell and Margaret Morales offer smart solutions.
Event: “Kwel’Hoy, We Draw the Line!”
Join the Lummi Nation's totem pole journey and stand up to dirty energy. -
Oregon’s New Motor Voter Law Is Registering More Young People
Automatic voter registration is combating age bias.
Weekend Reading 10/6/17
The dying art of disagreement, how to make plastic from shrimp shells, and more.
Build Less, Share More: An Urban Mantra for Taming Parking
Seattle's new parking proposal illustrates how. -
Democrats Could Split the Vote in Washington’s 8th Congressional District Race
But Ranked Choice Voting would avoid an unrepresentative result.
Do Hurricanes Wake Us Up?
It depends on your partisan worldview—and bumps in climate change concern may not last long.
Tax Talk 101
As the US looks at proposed reform, a best-of round up of our pro-tips series on tax messaging. -
Weekend Reading 9/29/17
Brewing up sustainability, the fake news machine, the overpopulation debate, and more.
Impact Fees: An Urban Planning Zombie in Need of Slaying
Eight reasons why impact fees thwart the creation of equitable, sustainable cities.
BC Is Increasing Its Carbon Tax!
After five years of stagnation, the tax will go up and pollution will go down. -
How to End Gerrymandering for Good
Multi-winner districts plus a fair voting method make more votes matter.
Weekend Reading 9/22/17
The ambition collision, octopuses are urbanists, the black-white wealth gap, and more.
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SIGHTLINE DAILY
Today’s top sustainability headlines for the Pacific Northwest, curated by Sightline Institute.
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Flying insects on the wane, just look at your windshield
Washington Post
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Can a city get the oil industry to pay for climate change?
Wired
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California wildfires make housing affordability even worse
The Oregonian
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Seattle teachers need 19 years to save for a house down payment
Seattle Times
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Northwest gas projects fuel the fracking beast
Sightline Institute
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Views: 45 years of clean water and no turning back
The Oregonian
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Mining proposal in Oregon could get new life, threaten waterway
Salem Statesman Journal
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Will Northern California soon have Southern California’s climate?
The Atlantic
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Minority groups risk undercount in 2020 Census
New America Media
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Portland approves 2,000 new units of supportive housing
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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