Presentation exploring climate change; climate change denial; the climate movement; clean energy economics; and the ways to get off of coal and oil and invest in clean energy given at the Port Townsend Salon, a community lecture series featuring experts in science and culture.

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 Seth Zuckerman and published by Climate Solutions examining the impact that electric vehicles could have on addressing climate change, as well has how the grid can provide the electricity required to power mass adoption of electrification.

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)

Eileen edited this report (authored by Seth Zuckerman, published by Climate Solutions) exploring progress toward reducing global carbon pollution from...

Eileen edited this briefing paper authored by Elizabeth Willmott and published by Climate Solutions, which offers lessons learned from both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Washington State investments in single family residential retrofits since 2009 to inform a regional retrofit strategy for King County, WA.

Presentation to a graduate seminar on eco-capitalism at the University of Washington describing the pathways to clean energy with a focus on national, state, and city actions.

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.

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 ...

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.