en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Cascadia headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 The view from State Route 281, a few miles south of Quincy, Wash., doesn't seem like one of the world's more dramatic landscapes. Not to me, anyway. This is country to be endured (better yet, slept through) on the way to other, more captivating environments. The topography here is mostly flat, and whatever isn't paved is russet or beige or an irrigated green. http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/after-the-floods?src=feat Environment Cascadia 11/23/2009 High Country News An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream. http://crosscut.com/2009/09/09/mossback/19223/ Environment Sustainable Living Cascadia 09/10/2009 Crosscut A strongly worded report on child obesity released on Tuesday recommends that state and local governments tax junk food and soft drinks, give tax breaks to grocery stores that open in blighted neighborhoods and build bike trails. http://www.vancouversun.com/health/junk+food+drinks+fight+child+obesity+Report/1951736/story.html Food & Farms Human Health Solutions Sprawl & Transportation Cascadia United States 09/01/2009 Vancouver Sun Farmers' markets may be the "new villages" of our modern day as we live in such isolation in our suburban homes, driving to and from the stores. http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=125011702876502900 Food & Farms Cascadia Oregon Washington 08/13/2009 Portland Tribune Four years after orcas living in Puget Sound waters were declared endangered, the prospects for their recovery are still unclear and their fate inextricably linked with that of the also-troubled Puget Sound chinook salmon. While noise from boats has been cited as a culprit in the decline, fish are foremost, according to most experts. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/708099834/-1/RSS02 Environment Water Wildlife British Columbia Cascadia US Northwest 08/09/2009 Everett Herald A warming climate will lead to more wildfires and more air pollution in coming decades, with the most dramatic increase in the Northwest, a new study predicts. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/07/study_wildfires_will_increase.html Climate Environment Forests Human Health Cascadia Idaho Montana Oregon US Northwest Washington 07/30/2009 Oregonian It will be hot, dry and a bad fire year for much of the West, Forest Service researchers are predicting. Researchers have completed an updated national drought and fire forecast for the next six months saying that 3.66 million acres are expected to burn. That is about average nationally, but there is an "unusual" concentration of activity in the West, they said. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/27/27greenwire-researchers-project-intense-fire-season-in-the-1282.html Environment Cascadia US Northwest 07/28/2009 New York Times Climate change legislation that Oregon lawmakers approved during the last session is now law, putting the state one step ahead of the federal government. We wanted to consider what a cap-and-trade law would mean for us in the Northwest. For that, we turn to Sightline Institute's Alan Durning. http://news.opb.org/article/5468-what-will-cap-and-trade-mean-northwest/ Cap and Trade Climate Cascadia Idaho Oregon US Northwest Washington 07/23/2009 Oregon Public Broadcasting From wind power to tar sands to nuclear power and even tidal power, the Pacific Northwest has a bounty of energy sources the region can turn into industrial development and jobs, experts meeting this week in Boise say. "We'll be talking about this region as the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy," said one organizer. http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/832015.html Climate Economy Energy Environment Green Business Solutions British Columbia Canada Cascadia Idaho Montana Oregon US Northwest Washington 07/13/2009 Boise Idaho Statesman