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Proposed fossil fuel exports from the Northwest | Sightline Institute Report

coalfreegorge wrote 1 month ago: Sightline Daily, May 15, 2013 by Eric de Place Across British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington there … more →

Tags: Environment, Coal Exports, Coal Dust, coal exports, Washington, Oregon, coal export terminals, Pacific Northwest, Fossil Fuel Exports

04.25.13: Your Morning Buzz

elgl wrote 1 month ago: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day is not about showing kids the work The High Five What E. L. … more →

Tags: Morning Buzz, emergency management, Bill Clinton, Tampa Bay Times

04.18.13: Your Morning Buzz

elgl wrote 2 months ago: Boston Bruins Crowd Delivers Tear-Jerking National Anthem The High Five The Shame of Boston’s … more →

Tags: Morning Buzz, edmonds community college, Lessons on Local Government, San Francisco Public Library, Boston Bruins

No Sick Leave = More Germs at Sea-Tac?

EOI wrote 2 months ago: How policies for low-wage airport workers can make you sick. mahalie, flickr Yoseph Diallo’s dad is … more →

Tags: Work-family, paid sick days, Alaska Airlines, Port of Seattle, Puget Sound Sage, Sea-Tac airport

Cascadia - Land of Falling Waters - Maps8 comments

treothe wrote 3 months ago: The ancient ways and  future ways of the landscape share the definitions of waters power. Here in th … more →

Tags: Voices, Cascadia = Land of the Falling Waters - Maps, Cascadia, map, David McCloskey, Cascadia PDX

The Pill is 1965 Technology6 comments

Valerie Tarico wrote 3 months ago: This post is 2 in the series: Twenty Times Better than the Pill. The Pill, photo by Beatrice Murch, … more →

Tags: Reproductive Health, Contraception, IUD, L'Arc, long acting reversible contraceptives, Mirena, Nexplanon, Paragard, St. Louis Choice study

New Contraceptives for Cascadia: The lesson of St. Louis 2 comments

Valerie Tarico wrote 3 months ago: Photo Credit: Chris JL via Compfight cc This post is 1 in the series: Twenty Times Better than the P … more →

Tags: Reproductive Health, IUD, Mirena, Paragard, Nexplanon, Teen Pregnancy, LARCS, Unintended Pregnancy, balanced budgets

When will they ever learn....(coal companies)1 comment

Ecoregions and Sustainability in the US and Canada wrote 5 months ago: With declining use of coal in the US the coal has to go somewhere! (so the thinking goes) Over the h … more →

Tags: Geography of the US and Canada, sustainability, Infrastructure, Climate change, ecology, Short Term, Coal, China, hydraulic fracturing

Tips for writing online

Annette Frahm wrote 11 months ago: The savvy people at Sightline Institute have created an online writing guide with tips for managing … more →

Tags: Communication, Digital Communications, facebook, Social Media, twitter

BRIEFLY: Of planning commissions and population projections

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: CITY COUNCIL SHOWING CARDS? — It will be interesting to see how the Olympia City Council compl … more →

Tags: Olympia politics, State Politics, sustainability, Thurston County politics, Land Use, Olympia City Council, Sustainable Thurston, Olympia Planning Commission, OFM population projections

Care to subsidize a dirty coal plant in Montana?

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: Did you know that Puget Sound Energy’s Washington customers are helping to keep open an antiqu … more →

Tags: sustainability, Thurston County politics, Business, High Country News, Thurston Public Power Initiative, puget sound energy, Energy

BPA Links to Infertility

lorrainewilde wrote 1 year ago: When the fertility doctor broke the news to us that my husband was struggling with his fertility, ou … more →

Tags: fertility, Science, Environment, fertility, Science Daily, bisphenol A, BPA, bpa ban

You can vote on a media grant request2 comments

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: Grist.org, arguably the least gray-haired of the major environmental news outlets, is trying to set … more →

Tags: media, sustainability, Slow News, grist.org, Tidepool.org, Aggregators, nonprofit media outlets, media grants

Is single-issue environmentalism obsolete?

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: The Feb. 20 issue of High Country News has a fascinating cover story about how Arizona’s cultu … more →

Tags: sustainability, Community Organizations, Independent Media, Green Pages, High Country News, Sustainable Thurston, Sustainable South Sound, sustainability, Environmentalism

WEC and Partners Work to Prevent Coal Shipment through Washington State

Mary M wrote 1 year ago: Washington Environmental Council (WEC) reports that they and their “partners, including Climat … more →

Tags: SEA INFO, coal-trains, West Coast ports, WEC, climate solutions, Sierra Club, Re-Sources, EarthJustice

Vancouver, B.C., wants to be world's greenest city; how about Olympia?

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: So if Vancouver, B.C., can set the ambitious goal of becoming the world’s greenest city by 2020, why … more →

Tags: Olympia politics, sustainability, Land Use, Vancouver, District Heating, Portland, compact development, quality of life, measuring greenness

Age-based income inequality and the Occupy movement

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: Eric de Place of the Sightline Institute has a story about three important reports on income inequal … more →

Tags: National Politics, Eric De Place, income equality, age-based income equality, Político, Pew Research Center

Follow up on what it takes to live in Thurston County

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: The Sightline Institute has posted a useful follow-up to a cost-of-living report by the University o … more →

Tags: Olympia politics, State Politics, Livelihood, self-sufficiency standard, Cost of Living, Jennifer Langston, taxes, living wage jobs

Wealth inequity and Washington's 'Occupy' movement

olympiaviews wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday NPR’s Jessica Robinson reported that income inequality in the Pacific Northwest is l … more →

Tags: Olympia politics, State Politics, National Politics, 2012 special session, Brad Shannon, Christopher Ketcham, Dick Nelson, Eric De Place, Fiscal Policy Institute


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