“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

LET THEM KNOWWWW MA!!!

Washington just made a power move for clean energy. Oregon—you’re up. @ktrumbull.bsky.social

Oregon is good at coffee, craft beer, and outdoor adventures. But it is not good at building new power lines—the linchpin of the state’s transition to clean energy. @ktrumbull.bsky.social has solutions to help crucial grid projects move forward.

“I think [NW Natural and gas utilities nationwide] will need to figure out if they want to be part of the solution or if they want to continue to obstruct progress toward the inevitable.” @emilymoore.bsky.social @oregonian.com @gosiawoz.bsky.social

New @sightline.org report w/ @emilymoore.bsky.social!🔥 Policy tools to ⬇️ #wildfire risk in the PNW: steer development away from risky areas, strengthen building codes, rebuild safer post-disaster, disclose hazard to renters/buyers & price insurance accurately. www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...

Let's do for wildfires what we’ve done for floods: stopping sprawl to risky areas, retrofitting homes to withstand fire, and rebuilding in places less likely to burn. @rpelai.bsky.social @emilymoore.bsky.social

I've been wondering when the insurance industry would go after big oil...

Learned from @emilymoore.bsky.social that the first high-voltage transmission line was in Portland at @opb.org’s energy event tonight! @sightline.org

It took me 5m to call 2 senators & leave a voicemail saying they should oppose any bill that would appropriate money for the extrajudicial killing of Americans (this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)

WA needs poles and wires in the ground, fast. State leaders can step up by creating a transmission authority, removing redundancies in project approval processes, focusing enviro analysis, and other recs from @emilymoore.bsky.social and @ktrumbull.bsky.social