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...
May 22, 2020 | Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure, Solutions
by Selden Prentice There’s been a lot of talk of late about the cleaner air we are seeing around the globe. In India the stars are back, while smog no longer mars views of the Taj Mahal. And who knew that you could see mountains behind downtown Los Angeles? In fact,...
Oct 23, 2019 | Legislation, Solutions, State
by Andrew Kidde Climate change has arrived. In the northwest, climate problems are likely to worsen in the coming decades—increased wildfires, smoky and polluted air, heat waves, droughts, floods, etc. These crises will lead to economic disruption and fewer resources....
Apr 18, 2019 | Solutions, State
Cap & trade has failed communities in California ― why would it be any different here? In 2013, California adopted the country’s largest cap and trade scheme. Since then, the state’s overall greenhouse gas pollution have dropped from the 2001 peak…but...
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...
