Alan Durning Alan Durning is founder and executive director of Sightline Institute. His current topics of focus include carbon pricing, housing affordability, and democracy reform. Read his full bio. Email: alandurning [at] sightline [dot] org.Follow Alan (@) on Twitter Alan's Articles A Green Voter’s Guide to Cascadia’s 2020 Election Results Results that caught our eyes in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and elsewhere. Nov 3, 2020 November 3, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/michael-andersen/ Senior Researcher Five Steps to Prevent Displacement Why and how abundant-housing advocates should fight displacement. Aug 3, 2020 August 3, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic: #4. Cheap Beef The pandemic is knocking this climate-killing food down a notch. Jul 27, 2020 July 27, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic #3: The Hegemony of Fossil Fuels Their economic power is crumbling. How soon will their political power follow? Jul 20, 2020 July 20, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic. #2: Junk Mail Already declining before Covid, ad mail has plummeted. Jul 13, 2020 July 13, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic. #1: Handshakes They’re swap meets for germs. Jul 6, 2020 July 6, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Black Lives Matter General Strike What we've been reading. Jun 12, 2020 June 12, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director The Plague Brought the Renaissance. What Could COVID-19 Bring? Three hypotheses on post-pandemic life. May 8, 2020 May 8, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director Bottom-Up Upzoning Would voluntary, block-level upzones circumvent the politics that create housing shortages? Feb 28, 2020 February 28, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director One of North America’s Boldest Housing Initiatives Has Reached Its End: Did It Work? What the ambitious Seattle HALA plan reveals about building affordable, low-carbon cities. Feb 21, 2020 February 21, 2020 Alan Durning https://www.sightline.org/author/alan-durning/ Executive Director 1 2 3 … 57 Next »