What's New
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Sage-grouse population hits 15-year low. New wildlife numbers give bad news for Cascadia's sagebrush country. Read the press release.
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Scorecard update.
Updates of the energy, fertility, and economy indicators send the Scorecard trends in the wrong direction.
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Energy Indicator Podcast Hear how caulk guns, efficient cars, and other off-the-shelf technologies can help us save energy.
The Cascadia Scorecard
The Cascadia Scorecard is the Pacific Northwest's sustainability report card. It tracks seven trends that are crucial to the region's future: health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution.
The latest update of the Scorecard, released in February 2009 on this site,
shows that we are making slow and tentative progress towards our shared goals:
long and healthy lives; shared economic prosperity; and a legacy of thriving nature.
Scorecard Summaries
Despite recent improvements, by the Cascadia Scorecard's reckoning it will take at least 44 years, on average, to match the performance of real-world exemplars that have already achieved robust human health, broadly shared economic security, efficiency in the use of land and energy, and thriving natural systems. Compared with international models, Cascadia does best on human health -- and worst, by far, on energy consumption.
Sightline Institute, Cascadia's sustainability think tank, provides research and tools to help create a healthy, lasting prosperity in the Northwest.
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