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Climate Action
Blog
Wrapping Up 2019 with Gratitude
After a very busy year, the Clean Energy Transition Institute has become an important catalyst for framing informed discussions about deep decarbonization in the NW.
Eileen V. Quigley
12/18/2019
Blog
What You Can Do About Climate Change
With glaciers melting, seas rising, wildfires raging, and storms intensifying, Americans have awakened to the reality of climate change.
Eileen V. Quigley
11/14/2019
Blog
Striking for the Future
“Hey hey, ho ho, fossil fuels have got to go!” Chants rang though the streets of Seattle last Friday from thousands who participated in the Seattle Climate...
Nicole Larson
9/24/2019
Blog
Jay Inslee Set the Standard for Presidential Candidate Climate Action
As someone who spends her waking hours working to accelerate the clean energy transition, I disagree strongly with critics who suggest that Washington Governor...
Eileen V. Quigley
8/29/2019
Blog
Hiking Footprints vs. Carbon Footprint
Our family has hiked together since our 12-year-old daughter was a newborn. I remember our daughter’s first decade as a series of literal peaks and valleys, many of them in the Olympics. I can picture her chasing butterflies over Marmot Pass ...
Jessica Plumb
10/17/2018
Blog
Efforts to Address Carbon Emissions
The scientific community has understood that burning fossil fuels could cause global temperatures to rise for nearly two centuries, but it wasn't until the 1990s that efforts were made to address this phenomenon ...
Eileen V. Quigley
8/15/2018
Blog
Chronicling Global Warming Milestones
Despite ongoing efforts of climate-denial proponents to present global warming science as new and unsettled, we have known for two centuries that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have the potential to severely disrupt the earth’s ...
Eileen V. Quigley
6/7/2018
Blog
Tracking Climate Action at the City Level
While climate change presents a global imperative, cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and contribute over 70% of the greenhouse gas pollution, climate action at the local level is critically important. Further, the urban share of...
Eileen V. Quigley
5/2/2018
Presentation
100% Renewable Movement
Presentation that explores the concept of and controversy about the 100% Renewable or 100% Clean Movement and how cities and businesses are embracing it, delivered for Western Washington University Institute for Energy Studies course on February 27, 2018.
2/27/2018
Presentation
Public Opinion and Climate Advocacy
Presentation that reviews public opinion polls about climate change; climate denial efforts; media coverage of climate change; the impact of weather events; and various clean energy advocacy and movement-building efforts, delivered for Western Washington University Institute for Energy Studies course on February 22, 2018.
Eileen V. Quigley
2/22/2018
Presentation
Decarbonization in Action
Presentation that looks at decarbonization efforts in Germany, the European Union, China, and the United States, delivered for Western Washington University Institute for Energy Studies course on February 8, 2018.
2/8/2018
Blog
Occupy the Future
Climate Week draws to a close, a resounding success in focusing the world’s attention on the importance of addressing climate change. The UN Climate Summit 2014 was the catalyst for the week's events. It remains to be seen what will happen ...
Eileen V. Quigley
9/29/2014