Election Upgrades for a Sustainable Future

Collective challenges require collective solutions. Our democracy should offer tools for us to tackle the climate crisis together-but structures of elections and campaigning lead to polarization, exclusion, and unequal influence. Shannon Grimes with Sightline Institute discusses obstacles blocking governmental accountability and systems to overcome them. Washington has been moving towards improvements with open primaries, ranked-choice voting, even-year elections, and democracy vouchers-and we have room to improve to grow a sustainable future. Be Earth Wise.