Washington Finally Has a Plan for Its Buildings
A fact from Bill Gates's climate book sent Jeff looking for a plan — not a pledge, not a target pinned to a distant year. This April, Washington finally got one.
A few years ago Jeff read Bill Gates's book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, and one fact stuck with him: buildings are one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and a striking share of the energy they use is simply wasted.
That fact sent him looking for a plan. Not a pledge, and not a target pinned to some distant year, but an actual plan for the buildings we already have.
This April, Washington finally got one. The Clean Energy Transition Institute and the 2050 Institute published the SCALE 2030 Clean Buildings Roadmap: six levers and sixteen actions meant to move all three million-plus buildings in the state, not just the largest ones.
Getting buildings onto a path like this is the work we do every day at Pilotlight, where we help owners meet standards like Washington's Clean Buildings law and turn compliance into a plan they can actually follow. A roadmap like SCALE 2030 is the bigger version of that same job: a genuinely good blueprint for getting every building in the state on a path to zero, and one more people should know exists.