May 6, 2022 | City, Solutions, Understory
After a shaky start to 2022 with a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, climate activists in Seattle had an important cause to celebrate. Revenue returns from the 2020-approved JumpStart tax began to trickle in this past February: first $200 million, then $215 million, then...
Jan 23, 2020 | City, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure, Legislation, Social/Discussion, State
by Nick Etheridge Our local fossil fuel-hooked utility is planning on spending $1 million in 2020 telling us that fracked gas is good for the climate. Don’t buy their lies. “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” I think of this Frederick Douglass quote regularly....
Oct 30, 2019 | City, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure
Dear PSRC Executive Board, I am submitting these comments on behalf of 350 Seattle in response to the Aviation Baseline Study currently underway.[1] Founded in 2013, 350 Seattle is a grassroots group working for climate justice by organizing people to make deep system...
Aug 16, 2019 | City, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure
by Nick Etheredge Seattle should follow the City of Berkeley’s lead and ensure that all new buildings are heated by clean energy, rather than climate-wrecking, health-damaging fossil fuels As Seattleites brace for yet another smoke season, it is more important...
Jun 1, 2018 | City, Divestment, Solutions
by Alec Connon Fifteen months after the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to cease banking with Wells Fargo, it has renewed a three-year contract with the climate-wrecking bank. This is why we need a public bank. It’s awful that Seattle will be banking with Wells...
May 29, 2018 | City, Solutions
Amazon, deliver a fossil-free futureAlexa, what is Amazon.com's carbon footprint?The company won't say... but these Plant for the Planet kids, and all of us, need to know! Sign the letter! We're calling on Bezos to take ownership of the pollution from...
