About Sightline Daily

Sightline Daily (formerly Tidepool.org) is a news-and-commentary website focused on the Northwest news that matters. It features a daily snapshot of the most important sustainability news affecting Cascadia, combined with expert insight that helps connect the dots on issues and point to solutions. Sightline Daily is a project of Sightline Institute, the Northwest’s sustainability think tank.

Every morning, Sightline Daily editors clock in at 5am to scan more than 40 media outlets from around the region and beyond, compiling a daily digest of the region’s top environmental, social, and economic headlines. We post the first edition at 8am and send out a daily email of top headlines at 10am. (Offers of free coffee are gladly accepted!)

Sightline Daily helps the region’s most engaged citizens stay on top of critical Northwest issues--from climate change to forest policy and from economic security to affordable housing--in just a few minutes a day. We say that Sightline Daily enables you to read 40 newspapers in 2 minutes--and we mean it.

In addition to the news service, Sightline's Daily Score blog offers provocative commentary and original thinking from Sightline researchers on topics ranging from innovative transportation solutions to how to make climate policy fair to the poor.

Sightline Daily might look like a fresh face, but its roots are venerable. It started in 1997 as Tidepool.org, an online news service launched by Portland-based Ecotrust. Tidepool quickly became the go-to daily news source for northwesterners working on or interested in sustainability.

Sightline--a longtime friend of Tidepool--acquired the news service in 2006 and re-launched it as Sightline Daily in March 2008 as a way to bring together Tidepool and the blog into one powerful package.

Some key features of Sightline Daily:

• A daily edition of top news headlines via the website’s front page and by email.
  
  
• An easy way for readers to submit news headlines and blog tips from their corner of Cascadia.
  
  
• A range of RSS feeds so you can put together your own custom Sightline Daily edition (want just food and salmon news? Easy!)
  
  
• Daily commentary from the Daily Score blog on topics from ranging from urban design to climate fairness to green living; and a one-click comment feature for you to submit your own two cents.
  

Two more things:

• First, we love feedback. Send praise, comments, and helpful criticism to editor@sightline.org. Send suggestions about bugs and site design to elisa@sightline.org.
  
  
• Second, if you subscribed to Tidepool’s daily email, you should now be receiving Sightline Daily’s morning email in its place. To make sure you get your newsletter, add this email (editor@sightline.org) to your safe senders list. And if you’re not signed up and want to be, go to our sign-up page.