Collection: Flashcards
Sightline Flashcards are quick reference tools for effective communications strategies. They’re messaging memos distilled from experts and savvy communicators—to help you do your job and save you time. The Flashcards focus on values-based communication: strategies for talking about important policies or issue solutions in terms of shared values.
Browse the Flashcards to gain insight into particular sustainability issues or simply to hone your values-based communications strategies.
Talking Points: Why State-Wide Housing Solutions Matter
Affordability is not just hurting people and communities across the region, it’s at the heart of many Cascadian communities’ most …
A One-Stop Shop for Our Affordability Messaging Resources
When we launched our program to study and promote solutions for affordability and green urbanism, we poked at the prevailing …
Lessons from Oregon’s Missing Middle Success
In June, wide, bipartisan majorities of Oregon’s legislature re-legalized duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in cities across the state. Ever since, …
Put a Friendly Face on Gentle Density
Policies to legalize the homes our cities need most—low-rise apartments and other modest, attached homes like duplexes, fourplexes, and low-rise …
Tips for Talking About the Green New Deal
Just about everyone is talking about a Green New Deal. And no wonder: American voters seem to be ready for this kind …
Why Mother-In-Law (Apartments) Matter
Why does a mother-in-law matter? I’m talking about ADUs—accessory dwelling units, not my husband’s mom! (Hi, Linda. Love you too!) …
Talking Triplexes: Missing Middle Messaging Tips
Legislators in Oregon and Washington are eyeing statewide solutions to keep job centers in these states affordable by re-legalizing a …
Our Favorite Flashcards of 2018
Thank you for linking arms with us in our (virtual) circle of smart, savvy policy messengers. As part of this …
American Democracy Reformers Watching British Columbia
An idea has been percolating among American writers and thinkers who care about the function—and future—of US democracy. In his …
How to Successfully Talk About Climate and Energy in Alberta Oil Country
What can the people of Alberta, Canada—the eighth-largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world—teach the rest of …
