Collection: Flashcards
Sightline Flashcards are quick reference tools for effective communications strategies. They’re messaging memos distilled from experts and savvy communicators—to help you do your job and save you time. The Flashcards focus on values-based communication: strategies for talking about important policies or issue solutions in terms of shared values.
Browse the Flashcards to gain insight into particular sustainability issues or simply to hone your values-based communications strategies.
Talking Points: Why State-Wide Housing Solutions Matter
Talking Points: Why State-Wide Housing Solutions Matter Affordability is not just hurting people and communities across the region, it’s at …
A One-Stop Shop for Our Affordability Messaging Resources
When we launched our program to study and promote solutions for affordability and green urbanism, we poked at the prevailing …
Lessons from Oregon’s Missing Middle Success
In June, wide, bipartisan majorities of Oregon’s legislature re-legalized duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in cities across the state. Ever since, …
Put a Friendly Face on Gentle Density
Put a Friendly Face on Gentle Density Policies to legalize the homes our cities need most—low-rise apartments and other modest, …
Tips for Talking About the Green New Deal
Just about everyone is talking about a Green New Deal. And no wonder: American voters seem to be ready for this kind …
Why Mother-In-Law (Apartments) Matter
Why Mother-In-Law (Apartments) Matter Why does a mother-in-law matter? I’m talking about ADUs—accessory dwelling units, not my husband’s mom! (Hi, …
Talking Triplexes: Missing Middle Messaging Tips
Talking Triplexes: Missing Middle Messaging Tips Legislators in Oregon and Washington are eyeing statewide solutions to keep job centers in …
Our Favorite Flashcards of 2018
Thank you for linking arms with us in our (virtual) circle of smart, savvy policy messengers. As part of this …
American Democracy Reformers Watching British Columbia
An idea has been percolating among American writers and thinkers who care about the function—and future—of US democracy. In his …
How to Successfully Talk About Climate and Energy in Alberta Oil Country
How to Successfully Talk About Climate and Energy in Alberta Oil Country What can the people of Alberta, Canada—the eighth-largest …