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Clothesline Crusaders Call Laundry Flap Overblown
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Vote: Should Clotheslines Be Banned In Seattle?
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Legalizing Clotheslines
Elizabeth Morris and her family bought their house in the High Point neighborhood for a reason. It’s been touted internationally as Seattle’s premier “green community” and for mixing Seattle Housing Authority rental properties and private home ownership. It’s a compact, walkable, mixed-income, energy-efficient, green-built neighborhood peppered with bicycle commuters and rain barrels. So Morris was shocked to find that at High Point, clotheslines are banned. “Homeowners have even been warned...Read more » -
Does “BC” Mean “Bans Clotheslines”?
British Columbia prides itself on a commitment to renewable energy. Yet many British Columbians are forbidden from stringing up the simplest of solar devices: the clothesline. These laundry-drying bans are written into the bylaws of strata corporations, which govern most of British Columbia’s condominiums, apartments, duplexes, and townhomes. Condos are a big and fast-growing housing choice in the province. In just 20 years, the percentage of Vancouverites dwelling in them...Read more » -
Clothesline Bans Void in 19 States
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Unbanning Clotheslines
Elizabeth Morris and her family bought their house in the High Point neighborhood for a reason. “High Point is the City of Seattle’s premier ‘Green Community,’ having been touted internationally as such, as well as [for] mixing Seattle Housing Authority [SHA] rental properties and private home ownership,” she explained. It’s a compact, walkable, mixed-income, energy-efficient, green-built neighborhood peppered with bicycle commuters and rain barrels. So Morris was shocked to find...Read more » -
Clotheslines, Condoms, and the Climate: Sightline's "Seven Wonders"
We’ve got big news this week. Sightline has released a new book, called Seven Wonders for a Cooler Planet. Seven Wonders, which was penned by award-winning journalist Eric Sorensen and Sightline staffers, examines seven everyday objects that serve not only as solutions to global warming, but also—and more importantly—as springboards for exploring some of the key issues behind climate change. What are the wonders? Stop thinking Taj Mahal and start...Read more » -
The Contradiction at the Heart of Housing Policy
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Weekend Reading 11/4/16
Eric In the midst of the wettest October on record, the right poem made its way to me. It would be easy to imagine that Robert Frost wrote “A Line-Storm Song” about this season in the Northwest, though of course he didn’t and it’s about much more than the weather. The last stanza breaks my heart in a curious way. Anna A friend of mine, and former Sightline intern (of...Read more » -
Green Stamps: A Climate Equity Proposal for the Pacific Northwest
Low-income families typically cause far less greenhouse gas pollution than their better-off peers; yet because they make less money, they spend a larger share of their income on carbon-based fuels. They’ve done the least to cause climate change, but they’re the most vulnerable to its impacts. They’re also most vulnerable to the single best policy for taming carbon pollution—putting a price on it—which would hit them in the pocketbook harder...Read more »