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Cascadia Scorecard News - October 2007
How to curb climate change; Sightline's new analysis of adding lanes to highways; WalkScore for your website.
10/29/2007
| How to Curb Climate Change What are the three top factors when trying to reduce our climate-changing emissions? Transportation, transportation, and transportation. In the Northwest states, 53 percent of our combined CO2 emissions from fossil fuels stem from transportation uses including commute traffic, freight, and planes.
Our transportation sector produces more than three times as much climate pollution as electricity production does. See charts for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Sightline is investigating the smartest choices for curbing our emissions from transportation, solutions that are good for the climate and for people. Check out our Climate Policy Project, and our blog series Climate Policy for Smarties.  Does Congestion Relief Equal Climate Relief?Speaking of climate and transportation, we’ve recently heard the claim that adding lanes to crowded highways could reduce overall emissions by keeping cars from idling in traffic. Sightline crunched the numbers and found the claim to be off. Each extra one-mile stretch of lane added to a congested highway will increase climate-warming CO2 emissions more than 100,000 tons over 50 years. The analysis has implications for road-building projects such as Proposition 1 in Puget Sound and the Gateway Project in BC. Go to the report. Neighborhood Pride  How walkable are your neighborhoods? WalkScore ranks your hood and tells you what's within walking distance. Now you can get it for your website or blog in the form of a free, downloadable widget, just click right here.Got a real estate site? You can get a real estate tile that lets site visitors see the WalkScore of a property and check out what's nearby. Find it on the WalkScore site. You can now download Sightline's energy counter for your website, too! Go here to get your own. |
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Map of the Month New Residents From Measure 37 Claims Missed the Fall Fund Drive? It's not too late! Report: Bulk Discounts to Polluters Bicycle Neglect Safe Streets What Does Bike-Friendly Look Like (Pt III)? Bike Neglect Blog Series The Daily Score Climate Fairness On equity in climate solutions.  |
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