Green Taxes
All of Sightline's research, publications, and ideas for using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term well-being.
Taxes are the DNA of the economy: invisible, cryptic, and awesomely powerful. But unfortunately, the tax system penalizes many of the activities northwesterners want more of--such as work and investment, while encouraging activities that northwesterners want less of--such as sprawl and waste.
In this section, you'll find Sightline's research and resources on a revolutionary approach to tax reform called tax shifting--or green taxes--which replaces taxes on "goods" with taxes on "bads."
- Research & Publications
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Fact sheet
Climate Pricing 101
A primer on cap and trade, carbon taxes, and other exciting ways to slash our greenhouse gas emissions. -
Fact sheet
Green Taxes - Highlights
The top findings from Sightline's research on using Cascadia's tax system to improve the region's long-term well-being. -
Book
Tax Shift
Tax Shift is a program for using the tax system to get more of what we want, such as flusher bank accounts, clean air, and healthier communities.
- Resources
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Book
The Natural Wealth of Nations
The Natural Wealth of Nations offers concrete solutions to environmental problems by showing how we can turn the tremendous power of market economies away from environmentally destructive activities and toward protecting natural wealth of human health. 1998; World Watch Institute; 303 pp.; -
Organization
Pembina Institute
An organization that has research and education programs in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, and the environmental impacts of the energy industry. http://www.pembina.org -
Organization
Redefining Progress
A nonpartisan organization based in Oakland, Calif., that works to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability. http://www.rprogress.org
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