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.
Poll: Americans Want Candidates Who Support Climate Change Solutions
With partisanship more venomous every day and midterm campaigns ramping up, it may be shocking to learn that Americans from …
Call ‘Natural Gas’ What It Is: Fracked
If you live in Washington State, Oregon, or British Columbia you might think fracking is not really your problem. You …
EcoAmerica’s Three Core Messaging Themes for Latinx Climate Leaders
Latinos make up 17 percent of the population of the US, and Latinx communities’ growing political and cultural power is …
Three Steps to Better Climate Conversations
Katharine Hayhoe’s life and credentials make her uniquely suited to bridge climate divides: She’s a Canadian expat in Texas, an …
Talking Housing Affordability: Getting from “Me” to “We”
Sightline conducted two rounds of focus groups to explore attitudes about Seattle’s growth, density, development, displacement, and a menu of …
Better Words for Work
We hear a lot about “what’s good for the economy.” But for most of us, the economy is only doing …
A 2017 Flashcards Flashback!
At Sightline, we know that no matter how the data stack up, a smart policy solution is only as persuasive …
Dear Seattle: “Let’s Own Our Growth!”
How do Seattleites feel about growth? What are people’s fears, hopes, and dreams for a booming city? Yesler Community Collaborative …
Tax Talk 101
In the US—and around Cascadia, people are talking about the latest Republican tax reform proposal. Even as some of us …
Why To Say “Protections,” Not “Regulations”
How about we call the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Protection Army? Keeping pollution out of our air, water, food, and …
