The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | The woolly mammoth went extinct in North America thousands of years ago, but a great white elephant is going to ground in British Columbia. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Eby is acting in a fire season in which 8,687 square miles have already burned, with one fire in northeast B.C. larger in size than the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The province, once nicknamed Canada’s “lotus land”, has been hit with a succession of climate calamities in recent years. |
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| Published at: | 11:33 AM on Thursday, September 14th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Wildfires |
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| Excerpt: | “Plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment which includes climate as part of the environmental life support,” Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Kathy Seeley wrote in a groundbreaking opinion. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Sunday, August 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | The Earth is telling us as loudly as it can that it's got a fever. But a frighteningly large percentage of humanity isn't listening and doesn't care, a stance encouraged by fossil fuel zealots profiting from the planet's destruction. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Saturday, August 19th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | With a little over a month to go until the autumnal equinox, blazes are wreaking havoc across the country, with significant fires in every province and territory. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 PM on Thursday, August 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | “It is clear the clock is not just ticking, it is banging,” Harris told a crowd at the McKinstry, a Seattle based firm which has been a national leader in energy-efficient building construction. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Events, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Vice Presidential Visits |
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| Excerpt: | A look at today’s world evokes the Armageddon worries we used to occasionally hear from Ronald Reagan. |
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| Published at: | 4:10 PM on Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | The climate crisis is a truly global concern. It has intensified in equatorial regions, yes, but also impacted our livable region and extended to both poles. |
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| Published at: | 11:18 AM on Monday, July 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | This must-read, highly illustrated story depicts how one of Canada's largest dirty petroleum infrastructure projects has become a feast for connoisseurs of ugliness. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Republicans seem to be calculating that once Washingtonians are frustrated enough with high gas prices, public support for policies like the Climate Commitment Act will evaporate. However, our research suggests they are wrong. |
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| Published at: | 3:04 PM on Monday, June 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Pollution, Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | Consequences of climate damage have hit home this spring, from waters of the Atlantic Ocean to boreal forests of Alberta to the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean. As our politicians fiddle with manufactured issues, the Earth burns. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | The political climate of Canada’s oil producing province is being upstaged by Mother Nature. Prolonged heat and lightning have produced a natural climate emergency with fires blackening the skies and consuming more than 2.3 million acres in a not-so-merry month of May. |
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| Published at: | 10:25 AM on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Our Environment, Party Politics, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | AB-Assembly |
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| Excerpt: | In this guest post for NPI, Senators Joe Nguyễn and Rebecca Saldaña explain how the Evergreen State is prioritizing equity in our response to the climate crisis. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Thursday, May 11th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joe Nguyen and Rebecca Saldana |
| Categories: | Guest Posts, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | Environmental groups have campaigned against what the Sierra Club has described as “a climate disaster waiting to happen.” A change.org petition opposing Willow had drawn 3.1 million signatures and an estimated 1.1 million unique letters have descended on the White House. |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Sunday, March 12th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Energy & Power |
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