Established in 2011, the King County-Cities Climate Collaboration (K4C) is a voluntary but formal partnership of King County and 13 cities forged with the idea that neighboring local governments can achieve deeper results on climate solutions by...

Eileen edited this report authored by Elizabeth Willmott and published by Climate Solutions, which examined the critical ingredients for successful city-led climate action and carbon pollution reduction. (November 2015)

What a difference five years has made! In 2010, the outlook for significant climate action was bleak, with the dismal Copenhagen Climate Summit that failed to produce an agreement on legally binding carbon emission reduction commitments, and ...

Eileen delivered this paper and presentation at the Kühne Logistics Universität in Hamburg, Germany for the City of Tomorrow Series on May 7, 2015.

Wasting no time in 2015, local elected officials from 12 King County cities, led by King County Executive Dow Constantine, got down to brass tacks the first work week of January to determine how to achieve ambitious countywide carbon reduction goals.

With Congress unwilling to take concerted action on climate change, it's worth celebrating that county and city leaders in the Northwest are up to the task of climate leadership at the regional scale.

The New Energy Cities joined close to 200 Oregon mayors and city managers in Bend, OR on January 22 at the Oregon Governor’s Cutting Edge Communities Symposium. A terrific kick-off for a promising initiative!

A report co-written with Elizabeth Willmott and published by Climate Solutions on how 34 American cities with fewer than 250,000 residents reduced their dependence upon fossil fuels for energy and catalyzed local clean energy with federal stimulus funds.

A guide for local elected officials, county and city staff, energy utility managers, and community stakeholders to the steps needed in designing and financing clean energy programs edited by Eileen. A joint project with Climate Solutions' New Energy Cities program, Pareto Global, the University of Oregon Center for Sustainable Business, and ...