A newsletter about the people and ideas that are shaping the American West. Written by @jakebullinger
Tacoma, WA
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Big thanks to @vertuelab for supporting this series. Now, onward to a cleaner, greener future.
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I was fortunate to glimpse this climate-friendly future. Commutes on @RadPowerBikes. @strawbale_CR houses built of mud and straw. @wallowaresources rejuvenating a once-struggling timber town. @ess_info batteries powering microgrids. This stuff works.
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Step 4: Establish a restoration economy. "Natural resources" used to mean extraction. Going forward, it needs to mean renewal and stewardship: bitterrootmag.com/2021/04/15…
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Step 3: Build structures that incorporate the nature that surrounds them. A house in Moab shouldn't look like a house in Tacoma. Climate-smart buildings both feel cooler and look cooler. bitterrootmag.com/2021/04/08…
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Step 2: Keep building out renewables (check!), and store that energy in as many places as we can. Li-ion batteries. Flow batteries. Hydrogen. We can use it all. bitterrootmag.com/2021/04/01…
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Step 1: Make cities more bike-friendly, and it'll be *way* easier to reduce transportation emissions. What's good for bikes is good for EVs & transit. bitterrootmag.com/2021/03/25…
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Thread: In my latest @BitterrootMag series, I looked at what it'll take for us to have a truly climate-friendly economy. The reporting left me ... hopeful!
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Western lawmakers enable an insurrection, Malheur occupation as 'dress rehearsal,' use of force at the Capitol vs Standing Rock, and much more getrevue.co/profile/Rockies-… h/t @jakebullinger @natehegyi @TheNomadicHeart @RobSaldin @dparkermontana @maxoregonian @Leah_Sottile @NoraMabie
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Census estimates indicate half the population of #Washington's Yakima County is Hispanic, yet it's had just one Latino county commissioner in its history. Advocacy groups are pushing for ranked choice voting to boost local equity: bit.ly/3kMwig6
@madsy_g @BitterrootMag – at Washington, USA
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Folks like @BradSmi say we need to get broadband internet into rural areas. Which got me thinking -- didn't we already do this w/electricity? My latest in @BitterrootMag: bitterrootmag.com/2020/06/05…
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Last year, I wrote about M.H. "Dutch" Salmon's lifelong effort to protect the Gila River from dams and diversions for @BitterrootMag, and today, New Mexico's senators proposed a bill to follow through on that work. Story here: bitterrootmag.com/2019/10/04…
Breaking News! @SenatorTomUdall and @MartinHeinrich introduced the "M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act," which would preserve portions of the Gila & San Francisco Rivers & their tributaries as #WildandScenic. bit.ly/2Llxl6F #WildGilaRiver
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Rockies Today: Time to plan for drier Western rivers, COVID-19 disparities unmasked, Rosebud Sioux Tribe plans largest tribal bison herd, Montana ruling seen as template for oil lease challenges, remembering John Freemuth, and much more getrevue.co/profile/Rockies-… h/t @jakebullinger
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Excited to partner with our friends at @BitterrootMag
for this conversation on how Seattle can best recognize its first residents! Come out to @THSEA Jan 22nd at 7:30pm townhallseattle.org/event/so…
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Rockies Today: Idaho Latinos look to youth for political future; inside Pueblo, Colorado's Superfund cleanup; quitting Colstrip; the trouble with transferring federal land to states; and much more getrevue.co/profile/Rockies-… h/t @megataros @BitterrootMag @natehegyi @tristanscott
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I have to admit I was a little surprised last night when, during the Democratic presidential debate, there were no questions or conversations about affordable housing or homelessness....
Read my #WesternProspects newsletter @BitterrootMag to hear more.
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And if you didn't know: I write a weekly newsletter for @BitterrootMag on the most important issues of the week facing the changing urban West. #WesternProspects If you live in a Western city or care about urban issues, this is the newsletter for you:
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Have you heard? Climate Change is Ruining Skiing. Aspen is Fighting Back from @BitterrootMag bit.ly/35uZMrx #giveaflake
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Rockies Today: Google helps put Native voters on the map, Aspen Skiing Co. shouts climate change from the mountaintops, PacifiCorp's power shift, and much more getrevue.co/profile/Rockies-… h/t @MattVas @pewtrusts @BitterrootMag
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In a recent issue of @BitterrootMag, @jakebullinger spotlighted @CLPHA member PHAs @TacomaHousing's & @Denver_Housing's initiatives to address homelessness & instability thru local partnerships #HousingIsStability clpha.org/news/2019/clpha-ta…
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