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Family Forest Owners Could Champion Carbon Drawdown
Family forest owners could lead on climate-smart forestry with public mechanisms to incentivize carbon drawdown practices.Read more » -
Going Cold Turkey On Black Friday
Editor’s Note November 2020: Black Friday, like so many aspects of our lives and rituals from Thanksgiving to elections to funerals, is drastically altered this year by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. By necessity, more of our holiday shopping will be online in 2020—as will some of our family gatherings. And, hopefully, we take this time to reflect on our priorities, to put things into perspective, and elevate people, love, community,...Read more » -
Poll: Re-Legalizing Sixplexes is Popular, Actually
Slam another nail into the coffin of the notion that it’s politically unthinkable to lift bans on small attached homes. In a Vancouver, BC, poll released last week, a majority of likely voters endorsed citywide sixplex legalization, with 16 percent undecided. Supporters outnumbered opponents by a 21-point margin, far beyond the 4.9 percent margin of error. In fact, supporters significantly outnumbered opponents among men, women, east-siders, west-siders, downtowners, tenants, homeowners,...Read more » -
New Book! Sightline’s Guide to US Democracy Fixes
The United States wasn’t built as a democracy. But we have the tools to fix the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and our elections and become a democracy for all at long last.Read more » -
Biden-Harris Win Opens Path to Federal Action on Housing
Biden wins! Good news is the Biden-Harris ticket has a great plan for federal action on housing. Bad news is continued obstructionism in a Republican-controlled Senate will stall affordability and housing security for Americans.Read more » -
North Carolina’s Witness Rule Favors White Voters
North Carolina’s ballot witness rule contributes to Black voters’ absentee ballots being more likely to be rejected.Read more » -
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How Cascadian Corporations Stack Up On Climate
How do Pacific Northwest companies stack up on climate change and carbon emission reductions? We rate the climate claims—and actions—of Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks and other local companies.Read more » -
Pennsylvania’s Tight Deadlines Threaten Thousands of Absentee Votes
PA’s tight deadlines don’t leave adequate time for absentee votes. Of rejected mail ballots in the state’s 2018 midterm, 94 percent were due to missing a deadline.Read more » -
California’s Home Shortage is Making Everyone Else’s Worse
California’s repeated failure to strike down local bans on close-in housing has an incalculable number of victims. But 13 million of them live in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Year after year, through booms and busts, California sends a one-way jet stream of people moving north to Cascadia. If comparable numbers of people were instead able to flow in both directions, those Northwest states would find it much easier to build...Read more »