Wonkabout: Washington Still Can’t Wait
Futurewise 2021 Legislative Wrap-Up: Our efforts to address climate change, housing affordability, and environmental justice through comprehensive planning.
At Futurewise, we believe that everyone deserves to live...
Midweek Video: Texas’s Power Disaster Is a Warning Sign for the US
https://youtu.be/Zcrsgdl_hP0
In this short video, Vox explains how Texas' March electric energy failure could be just the tip of the iceberg for America going forward....
State Senate Passes Clean Fuels Standard and Cap and Trade Bill
But legislature's "grand bargain" complicates the picture and may tie bills to highway expansion package. Sign our letter to oppose that.
Last Thursday, the Washington...
Gaslighter: When A Climate Commitment Act Is Not Climate Action (Op-ed)
I love numbers.
I was raised by my single mother, a public school teacher and math specialist to love numbers and data, something I still...
Front and Centered: The Evergreen State Needs a Greener and More Equitable Transportation Package
Throughout the summer and fall of 2020, Front and Centered held listening sessions with organizations of people of color across the state about transportation....
Mayor Durkan ‘Pivots’ from Road Pricing to Electrification Blueprint
In 2018, Mayor Jenny Durkan made a splash by embracing the idea of enacting downtown cordon tolling to reduce car congestion, pledging to realize...
Sawant: PSE Fire Underscores Need to Ban Fracked Gas
That freakish gas flare erupting from the sidewalk in the Central District on February 24th was an ominous double-warning about the danger of relying...
Midweek Video: Will Electric Cars Kill the Gas Station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVIYNzY-pE
Davos Amos looks at what the proliferation of electric cars means for fueling stations in the years ahead. Will they die away? Will they...