Siting and Permitting “Decarbonizing the economy will require an unprecedented amount of new energy investment” writes Alec Stapp in The Atlantic: “Fossil-fuel infrastructure built over centuries needs to be replaced within the next few decades by clean-energy...
The Story of Washington’s Climate Commitment Act Has anyone asked you to explain the Cap-and-Invest Climate Commitment Act (CCA)? Having helped pass the CCA, we at Clean & Prosperous Washington have read (and written) a library full of articles about the...
Put the pedal to the metal Is your business ready to step on the gas, er, the accelerator, to decarbonize your fleet in 2023? The upcoming Fleet Decarbonization Accelerator offered by the new Breaking Barriers Collaborative is a hands-on, cohort-based program that...
Who was Everett Rogers? And what can he teach us about accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles? Students in business schools learn about Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation theory. They learn about “crossing the chasm” between the Early Adopters and the...
The future is precious The future of Washington state is bouncing on the seats, playing “jello”, and raising decibel levels inside school buses every day. And soon, more of them will be doing that inside clean, electric school buses thanks to funding from the...
Chickens and eggs Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Philosophers (and farmers?) have pondered this question for many years. Now that question is applied to EVs and charging stations. The clean energy future imagines free-range EVs powered by a reliable...