Clean transportation hits the road in Wenatchee, WA
Our Clean Vehicle showcase featured zero-emission buses, drayage, and garbage trucks.
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Storytelling
“Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis.
This is as true of climate chaos as anything else.”
This is as true of climate chaos as anything else.”
—Rebecca Solnit, Writer, historian, activist, and editor of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Thanks to decades of work by scientists, climate advocates, and community organizers, more people than ever recognize the climate crisis as a clear and present threat to communities and ecosystems worldwide.
However, the climate movement needs to build more critical mass. We need more people to embrace the clean energy transition as urgent, achievable, and even desirable. We need communities, organizations, and businesses to reduce their gas and oil use and rapidly adopt clean energy solutions. We need climate advocates to share more relatable stories highlighting excitement and human connection over jargon and technicalities. We need a vocal and influential bloc of well-informed policymakers and elected officials to prioritize climate action at every level. Most of all, we need hope.
To meet this moment and help our cause prevail, we're harnessing the power of narrative and storytelling to personalize and transform public perception about the climate crisis and its clean energy solutions.
A City’s Climate Action Plan: Interview with Milwaukie Mayor Gamba
The city is working to become entirely equitable, delightfully livable, and completely sustainable.
Reducing Pollution, Investing in Solutions
Clean energy, cost saving, job creating investments from the ten states that have already put a price on climate pollution
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A clean tech company in Portland, Oregon is taking strides to make sure that your windows take your breath away, not your warmth.
Something good lurking in the FOG: Gresham turns waste into watts
Sometimes good things lurk in the FOG. In this case, FOG is a waste product—fats, oils, and grease—and it’s a major reason why the City of Gresham was able to turn its wastewater treatment plant from an energy hog into the first net zero energy plant in the Pacific Northwest.
Finding Climate Justice in the Fight for Transit Equity
Oregon's transit justice movement is critical to the success of our climate movement.
Automotivated
An Oregon community college is fueling the future, fostering a new generation of mechanics in cleaner alternatives.
How a strip club becomes a climate justice solution
Working together, local groups in Portland's Cully neighborhood are redefining sustainability and development as an anti-poverty strategy.
Renewing Brew
From the farm to the foam in your glass, Oregon businesses are building a sustainable life-cycle for beer through clean energy and energy efficiency.
Sunnyside Up
In a community at the crossroads of our energy future, a growing solar company is making the clean economy real.
A Clean Burn
A former Texas oilman and a public health advocate stand up to Big Oil, and fight for clean air and homegrown jobs in the Northwest.
Legacy Solution Stories project (2012-2018)
Story content published between 2012 and 2018 was developed as part of our initial Solutions Stories project. It sought to capture and communicate the success stories on the ground about building a clean energy economy in the Pacific Northwest. The project showcased stories aimed at reaching policymakers and other key audiences that influence those drivers and decision-makers on climate and clean energy policy.
This project was placed on hiatus in 2018, but helped inspire Climate Solutions' present-day storytelling and narrative efforts.
Connect with our storyteller
Have you upgraded your home to all energy-efficient electric appliances?
Is your company transitioning to zero-emission fleet vehicles?
Is your community hungry for some climate hope and optimism?
Our in-house storyteller wants to connect with you!
Email jonathan [dot] lee (at) climatesolutions [dot] org
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