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Driving Demand for Energy Upgrades
The gist: A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory examined 14 home efficiency programs that the authors felt were ...
Making Food Carts Less Trashy
As if I needed another reason to salivate over Portland’s exploding food cart scene, the folks over at GO Box ...
Northwest Bicycle Bills in 2011
Update 1/21/11, 4:35 p.m.: I’ve modified my original description of HR 1018 to correct a mistatement on my part and ...
A Noose Around Tax Loopholes
Despite the fact that it hasn’t yet been introduced, I’ve already got a favorite bill in Washington’s still-young legislative session. ...
A Moral Message vs. A Policy Message
“Conservatives create moral messages. The Democrats create policy messages, and policy messages either go over people’s heads or bore them.” ...
The Poverty of Ownership
The Census Bureau is debuting a new version of its poverty count, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) that should represent ...
A Vacation from My Car (and Kid)
This weekend, my in-laws came to town. Which was a very happy occasion. I handed over my two-year-old daughter (and ...
Bike to Work
Via Sarah Mirk of the Portland Mercury, a new study from the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of ...
Smaller SUV, Safer Ride
There’s a lot of food for thought in this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report on the relationship between vehicle size ...
Infants Versus Coal: You Decide
At EOI’s blog, the single best comparison I’ve seen demonstrating the wretchedness of Washington’s tax and revenue situation: A $23 ...
Sustainable Versus Affordable
For the last several years something has really gotten under my skin: the way we talk about housing and affordability. ...
Oil Prices: Three Stages of Denial
It’s easy to make fun of predictions about the future, since they so rarely come true. (Consider, for example, all ...
