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Overturned tables: Democracy vouchers, with Alan Durning
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The Honest Elections Seattle Initiative: Interview with Alan Durning
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Alan Durning
Alan Durning: Biography Alan Durning founded Sightline Institute in 1993. He contributed significantly to Sightline’s effort to create a new regional index of progress, the Cascadia Scorecard, and has led many of the organization’s other successes. Alan has authored or coauthored more than ten Sightline books, including This Place on Earth 2002: Measuring What Matters; This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest; This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence (winner...Read more » -
Alan Durning on the “Ruinous, Vicious Circle” of Underpriced Parking
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Video Vancouver: 10 Stories Of Legalizing Sustainability: Alan Durning At Tedxbellevue
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Alan Durning at TEDx: Legalize It!
In this 13-minute video, I tell the stories of everyday citizens who are organizing to make sustainability legal. From clotheslines to reused pickle jars, from car-sharing to wilderness outings for poor teens, common-sense, green solutions are too often against the law. On jobs and climate and fairness and biological diversity and toxic chemicals — all the dimensions of sustainability — we know that we need to overhaul the house from...Read more » -
A Conversation with Alan Durning, Director of the Sightline Institute
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Alan Goes to Town Hall
On Wednesday Sightline’s fearless leader Alan Durning will be speaking at Seattle Town Hall with the CEO of Cascadia Region Green Building Council, Jason McLennan. The title of the seminar is “Exploring energy and design: smart solutions for the built environment.” Here’s a blurb: As the prospect of global economic crisis hits home, there is hope. The work being done to combat climate change through smart community design, green building...Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic #3: The Hegemony of Fossil Fuels
Sightline Institute executive director Alan Durning on the fossil fuel industry’s flagging hegemony and the impacts of #COVID-19: “Their economic power is crumbling. How soon will their political power follow?”Read more » -
Apartment Blockers
Editor’s Note 8/19/2015: We are bringing this popular and relevant post back to explain how parking rules raise your rent. Two years later, Sightline’s executive director Alan Durning is still exposing the hidden reason behind skyrocketing housing costs in this recent Stranger article. Read below to learn how ending parking quotas can bring down rent costs. Have you ever watched the excavation that precedes a tall building? It seems to take forever. Then,...Read more »
