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Nov 5
Where the Carbon Emissions Sidewalk Ends : More and more cities in our region—and in the world—are developing plans to reduce carbon emissions....
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Nov 5
Walk Score Adds Transit : Walk Score, which has become the most widely-used measure of pedestrian friendly neighborhoods in North America, has added a new trick: they're now incorporating transit data into their walkability ra...
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Nov 4
Paul Krugman Versus Matt Taibbi : I love reading Matt Taibbi. I mean, who else puts together a sentence like this?: The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly...
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Nov 4
Will Patriotism Move Americans on Climate? : An interesting piece in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday by Robert Dujarric (who heads the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University) makes the case that Americans can be...
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Nov 4
Smart, Cheap Stormwater Fixes : Stormwater -- the rainwater that streams off roofs, parking lots, roads, and yards carrying with it toxic pollutants -- poses a costly, intractable problem for governments and businesses....
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Nov 3
Gaming Cap and Trade: Should We Worry? : Worries about “gaming” or market manipulation sometimes crop up as an objection to cap and trade, often with reference to recent shenanigans in the financial markets....
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Nov 3
Have Cap-and-Trade Programs Been "Gamed"? : I've got an emerging obsession: the risk of market manipulation in cap and trade programs....
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Nov 2
Oregon's Energy Policies Stimulate High Ranking : Over the last week there has been quite a bit of discussion in the media about the number of jobs created by stimulus dollars....
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Nov 2
It's the Salish Sea Now : In a step forward for bioregional thinking, Washington has agreed to add a new name to the Northwest's official geographic lexicon: the Salish Sea....
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Nov 2
Dogs Vs. SUVs : Editor's note: Clark will be on NW Cable News tomorrow morning (Nov 3) around 8:30 to talk more about this issue. You may have seen the meme circulating around the internet:  some researchers...
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Oct 30
Get Your Wolf On : Surely one of the most encouraging conservation stories in recent years has been the phenomenal revival of wild wolves in the Rockies....
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Oct 30
Think Tanks on TV : Last night, TVW aired a one hour televised no-holds-barred fight to the death friendly discussion with five think tanks in Washington State. If you haven't guessed already, Sightline was one of them....
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Oct 30
Nudges, Laundry, and Trash : Wouldn't it be nice if there were painless and unobtrusive ways to promote a shift to sustainable behavior?  Well, there are....
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Oct 29
Wanted: Smart Workers for Smart Grid : Early this week, President Obama gave a speech touting the $3.4 billion in grants the federal government has awarded to local companies, utilities and cities working to improve the country’s aging and...
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Oct 28
October's Photopool Winner : Last weekend, Over 700 Seattleites joined together and formed the numbers three, five and zero atop the Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center....
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Oct 28
The Bark Beetle's Bite : Via Climate Progress, a transcript from Marketplace that is just riveting. It's about the bark beetle infestation and forest die-offs around Helena, Montana....
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Oct 27
Six in 10 Americans Support a Cap-and-Trade Proposal : A CNN/Opinion Research poll released today shows strong public support for cap-and-trade legislation....
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Oct 27
Gas Prices Are Noisy : Do people notice small changes in gas prices?...
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Oct 27
Last Chance for Sightline's Getaway to Seattle Sweepstakes : Time is almost up! Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for Sightline's daily or weekly emails and be entered to win two nights out in Seattle....
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Oct 27
Green Collar Jobs Start With Basic Skills : A study released over the summer found that there are some great opportunities in Washington state for green jobs in the renewable energy sector....
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Oct 27
The Hidden Cost of Coal : Over at Grist last week, Dave Roberts blogged about a recent -- and very important -- study by the National Research Council on the enormous hidden costs of energy consumption. I'm surprised that the...
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Oct 27
The Fiscal Crisis At Metro Transit : Doug MacDonald is a Sightline fellow.  He served as Secretary of Transportation for Washington State from 2001 to 2007 and now lives in the Greenwood neighborhood in Seattle....
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Oct 27
Climate Poll: Hike in Skepticism; Support for Cap and Trade : The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct....
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Oct 27
Give a Toot, Don't Pollute : Tugboats are in a strange position in the marketplace:  there are enough of them out there to suck down a fair amount of fuel in port cities, and to cause some medium-sized problems for local air qual...
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Oct 27
Color of Money : Very few of the stimulus dollars allocated for energy efficiency -- and the green jobs they can create -- have been allocated or spent by governments. At first this might seem a bit discouraging....
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Oct 27
A Sustainable Night's Sleep : Editor’s Note: This post is part of Sightline’s Getaway to Seattle Sweepstakes....
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Oct 27
Deep Bore: Is Seattle On The Hook For Cost Overruns? : It doesn't seem to have gotten much attention, but this Seattle Times review of the politics of the proposed Deep Bore tunnel on the Seattle waterfront contains a startling admission from Was...
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Oct 27
Is Vancouver Losing Young People? : A few weeks back, I wrote about an article that appeared in The Tyee, arguing that artsy, creative young people are abandoning Vancouver in droves....
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Oct 27
Cost Overruns For Seattle-area Tunnel Projects : Will the deep-bore tunnel -- the current choice by the city and state to replace Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct -- go over budget? One way to answer that question is to look at what's happened with oth...
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