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Oregon has big climate goals: heat pumps get us there
Heat pumps are an essential piece of the puzzle for meeting our climate and affordable housing goals. They both reduce climate emissions and provide long-term energy…
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Clean energy offers resilience in the face of extreme heat
Three years ago, a record-breaking 116℉ heat dome formed over the Pacific Northwest, leading to the deaths of 116 people in Oregon, 157 in Washington and 619 in British…
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Solar accessibility to soar for Oregon’s lower-income households
The state of Oregon was recently awarded $86 million for rooftop solar projects for lower-income residents. The extra cool news: combined with existing federal…
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Let’s be brave now, so our children don’t have to be forced to be braver later.
Gina McCarthy, Gov. Jay Inslee and other climate champions raised the roof at our annual event in Seattle.
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Coming soon: Carbon-free roadside assistance?
As the largest provider of roadside assistance services in the Evergreen State, AAA Washington responds to calls for all kinds of jams — and soon they’ll be responding…
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    REACCH-ing for farming’s future

    by Patrick Mazza on

    Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing 21st century agriculture. To anticipate those challenges a cutting-edge Northwest scientific exploration is bringing some very 21st century tools to bear.

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    Protecting shrinking farmlands

    by Patrick Mazza on

    In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing. 

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    Unpave paradise, get rid of the parking lots

    by Rhys Roth on

    Our country, America the Beautiful, boasts somewhere between 105 million and 2 billion parking spaces, according to a New York Times blog that caught my eye the other day.  This boggles my mind on two levels:

  • The home run we need: Biocarbon

    by Rhys Roth on

    RBI.  I’m a baseball fanatic -- especially in playoff season -- and I was hoping that our new program could have that acronym.  

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