The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Climate fires are destroying property and taking lives in Washington, Oregon, and California, putting a face on the climate crisis. Right wing pundits have been reduced to lamely claiming there's no connection. |
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| Published at: | 2:45 PM on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Firefighters report that they are stretched thin and simply don't have the humanpower or the resources to properly fight the destructive blazes. |
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| Published at: | 10:35 PM on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | A coalition of states from the Left Coast, Great Lakes region, and New England is going to court to stop the desecration of America's greatest wilderness. |
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| Published at: | 2:35 PM on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Energy & Power, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | By the time the sun had set on September 7th, 2020, the Pacific Northwest had joined California in firestorm misery, with hundreds of thousands of acres newly burnt or burning. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, Extreme Weather, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Always, always climate and environment get eclipsed as Election Day draws near. But even if our planet's fever doesn't get the attention it should, 2020 could still be a major turning point. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Pollution, US-Pres |
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| Excerpt: | The world is grappling with a novel coronavirus pandemic while climate damage grows ever worse. Netroots Nation 2020 decided to explore how systemic inequality defines both fights. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Thursday, August 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Bobby Aiyer |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Events, Our Environment, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Global Health, Netroots Nation, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Earth Day, one of our favorite days of activism, has turned fifty. Here are some great articles you can read and videos you can watch to commemorate the occasion. |
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| Published at: | 10:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Holidays, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Earth Day, Green Development, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | The newest addition to the Washington State Legislature from the 40th District wants to tackle affordable housing and climate justice in the 2020 short session. |
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| Published at: | 10:18 AM on Monday, January 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Caitlin Harrington |
| Categories: | Elections, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Pollution, WA-Leg, Zero Waste |
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| Excerpt: | At a ceremony at the Lynnwood Transit Center, the agency celebrated the long-anticipated milestone with a third of the state's congressional delegation plus state legislators, labor leaders, and construction workers. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | Vermont's junior United States Senator is thinking big about what we need to do to bring emissions under control and save the Earth, our common home. |
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| Published at: | 9:15 AM on Friday, August 23rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Energy & Power, Green Development |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of A Bright Future, a book that discusses how some countries have tackled the climate crisis and how the rest could follow. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, June 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Books, Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | By a vote of thirty-six to twenty-four, lawmakers in Oregon's more populous legislative chamber advanced House Bill 2020, a landmark climate justice bill. |
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| Published at: | 11:46 PM on Monday, June 17th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | It's time to accelerate the clean energy revolution in the Pacific Northwest! Let's get HB 2020 passed and to the desk of Governor Kate Brown to be signed into law. |
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| Published at: | 2:33 PM on Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Three Democratic senators have released a letter calling on NBC News to make climate justice the focus of the first presidential primary debate. |
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| Published at: | 7:46 PM on Friday, May 31st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres |
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