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How Backyard Cottages Could Help Close the Affordable Housing Gap
ADU rents run below market rates, potentially providing relief for people with the least amount of housing options.
Vancouver’s New Plan to Allow More Homes of All Shapes and Sizes
BC city proposes to loosen zoning rules in an effort to provide more housing options in single-family neighborhoods.
Portland Now Has the Smartest Parking Policies in the Northwest
Meter price adjustments, revenue reinvestment and smarter zoning all play an important part. -
Growing Seattle Ups the Ante on Green and Complete Streets
Can the Emerald City move fast enough to implement its best plans in the face of scorching rates of development?
E-scooters Could Be One Way to Fund Better Protected Bike Lanes
Scooter startup Bird just pledged to give $1 per scooter per day to help making travel better for everyone. -
Portland’s Street Design Experimentation Creates a Redrawn Paradigm
Complete streets vision is gradually taking form in Portland, one construction project at a time.
Thanks to Comprehensive Street Design, Vancouver Sows for the Future
The would-be “Greenest City” is completing its busier and denser areas with trees and plants.
‘A Virtuous Cycle of Green’: How Street Design Can Be Calmed by Nature
Making Cascadia’s streets more like gardens ensures complete streets are green streets. -
Climate change is hot wedge issue for 2018 Midterms, polls indicate
The US electorate is ready for candidates willing to protect environment
Modular Construction: A Housing Affordability Game-Changer?
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Jordan Cove Energy Project, LNG facility may harm water quality, salmon runs
Public comment on the Jordan Cove, Coos Bay LNG project is extended until Aug. 20
Trump Appointees Might Undercut HFC Ban but West Coast Leadership Fighting Back
Take heart: the Montreal Protocol is proof that climate progress is still regionally and globally possible.
Will 2018 Finally Be the Year for a Carbon Pollution Price in Washington?
An impressive coalition of support is behind the Clean Air and Clean Energy Initiative. -
Summer Update from the Thin Green Line
Canada’s oil pipeline spending spree, plus action on fracked gas.
Portland’s Latest Smart Idea: Meters That Charge What Parking Is Worth
City data show curb prices would fall in much of downtown.
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SIGHTLINE DAILY
Today’s top sustainability headlines for the Pacific Northwest, curated by Sightline Institute.
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Not just land heat waves: Oceans are in hot water, too
Seattle Times
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Will Washington State get a carbon tax?
The Atlantic
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An unfair share: Climate change hits some harder than others
Front and Centered
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We’re putting more homes in the path of wildfires
KUOW
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Logging in BC a ‘grave concern’ for WA’s Skagit River watershed
Seattle Times
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The case for community gardens
Strong Towns
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Judge dismisses kids’ lawsuit seeking to protect the climate
KUOW
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Working-class white women could make or break midterms
The Atlantic
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How houseplants could save us from toxic buildings
Fast Company
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Thank you for not breeding
Portland Mercury
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