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Working Snake River project seeks broad involvement, political leadership to protect Northwest wild salmon

Working Snake River for Washington, a collaboration of clean energy proponents, conservationists, salmon and orca advocates, commercial and recreational fishermen, farmers and businesses, is a response to the government’s two-decade, multi-billion-dollar failure to craft a lawful, science-based federal plan that protects the Columbia Basin’s endangered wild salmon and steelhead.

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Future tense: Clearing the way for clean energy

We now know a clean energy future is both possible and affordable.

Will we rise above our differences to reach it?

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Welcome to the first eActivist

From Executive Director Sara Patton: My first eActivist column promises to be shorter if not sweeter than my hard copy columns of yore. Electronic communications have proved a great boon to public-interest advocates, and we’re moving to take advantage of that opportunity.

But we’ll need to fully deploy all modes of human communication to surmount the challenges before us.

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The Energy Activist – Summer 2010

Welcome to the first online edition of the Energy Activist. Electronic communications have proved a great boon to public-interest advocates, and we’re moving to take advantage of that opportunity.

The Energy Activist Online helps Coalition members and allies keep track of often complex energy and salmon issues. Each edition explores a key issue affecting the Northwest’s energy future…

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Thank You

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Realizing the Power of Efficiency

Barriers,
 Opportunities 
& 
Solutions 
to 
Financing 
Energy
 Efficiency 
for 
Small
 and
 Mid‐sized 
Businesses 
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Northwest


The up-front costs of energy efficiency improvements may just be the king of barriers to energy waste reduction at the scale that will allow us to stop building costly and polluting new electric generating plants.

The Coalition’s Efficiency Works! project has commissioned a study of Northwest lending for energy efficiency projects in small and mid-sized commercial enterprises. The goal is to examine the current landscape, including the barriers encountered by existing programs, and offer a menu of solutions…

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Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part II

The Transformer: A cheaper bright future

The region’s new power and conservation plan closely tracks NW Energy Coalition’s Bright Future analysis and provides an even lower consumer cost estimate for achieving our clean energy vision…

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Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part I

The Transformer – Energy efficiency brings good things to life

The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.

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Energy Matters Update – March 16, 2010

Moving the region toward a Bright Future: The new Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan

Every five years the region’s official power planning agency, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, produces a new 20-year forecast of growing electricity needs and a prescription for meeting them. The recently approved Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan charts an aggressive clean energy path for our region’s future.

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