Quality infrastructure matters to every community, in every part of the Pacific Northwest. It's the backbone of our local economies and shapes much of our daily lives – providing us with clean water and air, effective transportation and communication, heat and power for home, work and industry, and more.

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While infrastructure enables these essential services, it also constrains what is possible.  Today’s technologies might allow for carbon-free transportation, or lower cost wastewater treatment plants that become community value centers, but too often our infrastructure precludes these better outcomes.  Because most infrastructure is built to last decades, the design choices we make today lock us into many years of possibility or constraint.

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We spend billions of dollars every year to operate, maintain, rebuild and expand these essential systems - it's time we ensure these investment decisions work better for all communities, and contribute to a future of sustained, broadly shared prosperity. 

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CSI is the trusted Pacific Northwest-based non-profit with a mission to catalyze state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure solutions that help communities of every kind thrive economically, socially and environmentally.  

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CSI is uniquely positioned to help decision makers re-imagine and re-direct the billions we invest in our infrastructure to deliver much more community value. 

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Our powerful proposition: Pivoting to sustainable infrastructure is one of the biggest levers we have to tackle our toughest challenges – from climate change to inequitable prosperity to crippling cultural divisions – and together build a thriving future for communities of every kind.​