It’s Well Past Time We Ditch Fossil Fuels
Yesterday, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced executive action ending the use of fracked gas infrastructure in City buildings. It represents a small step toward decoupling...
Jump In Traffic Volumes Points To An Uphill Climb To Reduce Emissions
Seattle's average daily vehicle volumes increased by the largest amount in more than a decade in 2018, the most recent year of data available....
Sunday Video: Why Don’t We Have Electric Planes Yet?
https://youtu.be/49yDycP3Pgc
Aviation is one of the fastest growing sectors of greenhouse gas emissions. But so far, there are no commercially operated electric planes that could...
Looking Back on Another Decade of Climate Delay
As we bid 2019 adieu and enter a new decade, it's hard not to get wistful and ponder the past decade in the rearview...
Homestead Pioneers a Carbon Neutral Model for Affordable Housing
With Willowcrest Townhomes, Homestead Community Land Trust is striving to create "a replicable model" for permanently affordable net zero energy housing.
Since the 1960s,...
Sunday Video: Indicator Species of the West
https://youtu.be/T6BzZcKyJiI
Vox explains how the sage grouse is an indicator species in the American West and why the fossil fuel industry poses a serious threat...
Inslee Releases 2020 Legislative Proposals on Homelessness, Transportation, and Climate
On Wednesday, Governor Jay Inslee (D-Washington) released his proposed budget for 2020. The budget is supplemental to the one that the state legislature approved...
State Commission: Replace Gas Tax with Road Usage Charge, but Keep Highways-Only Earmark
From February 2018 through January 2019, Washington state tested out a possible replacement program for the gas tax known as the "Road Usage Charge"...