Eugene's Greenwashing "World's Greatest City of
the Arts & Outdoors"
world's most absurd slogan Ecocentrism: Eugene not "number one Green City"
What is greenwash? Greenwash and the environmental movement Carbon Absolution: Honesty Needed for real solutions
Bypassing Sustainability: Eugene, Springfield, Lane County promote $817 million for new & bigger highways Troubled Bridges Over Water West Eugene Parkway Kulongoski - Bush plans for
I-5 NAFTA Superhighway
Development boondoggles Intelligent Urban Design: Nodal Development: fake environmentalism Bus Rapid Transit (EmX) Nike Basketball Arena: funded by sweatshop blood money EWEB's paving of west Eugene wetlands: money that could fund renewable energy Tax Breaks for Polluters Big Box Stores 2050 fantasy: Lane County ignores limits to growth
Human Rights City? Chinese Olympics June 1, 1997: pepper spray used on peaceful protestors rapist cops convicted of felonies tasers
Greenwash Building Wetland Homes: "Sustainable Eugene" paving wetlands with subdivisions
Polluted Air and Water Clearcutting the Cascades and Coast Range Aerial Herbicides Blanket Lane County's Forests Slash pile burning - a huge waste of trees Toxic Eugene: Grass Seed Capital of the World: Pollen and Smoke Pollution Nano-pollution
greenwash groups: 1000 Friends of Portland promotes timber industry Portland environmentalists greenwash Governor energy return on energy invested: Eugene's cliques: People's Front of Judea
West Eugene Collaborators: environmentalists who proposed a worse route for the West Eugene Porkway West Eugene Collaborative: two flavors of elites WEC's map of a highway sized loophole
Butt Ugly Architecture Wayne Morse federal building: Homeland Security Strip Mauls: West 11th and Coburg Road
Disasters: preventative, permaculture perspectives Eugene's Multi-Hazard Mitigation program Cascadia Subduction Zone - Richter Nine Dangerous Dams and the Willamette Valley Tsunami Firestorms, Loggers, Fireworks Oregon Coast energy national sacrifice zone floods: don’t build hospitals in floodplains storms: plant fruit trees, not firs, around homes landslides: ban clearcuts and new road cuts wildfires: fireworks and clearcuts increase risk earthquakes and coastal tsunami: seismic retrofit bridges & buildings volcanoes: plan to do without Calif. products if Mt. Shasta erupts dam collapse: critical infrastructure: redundancy, relocalization and renewables needed hazardous material: ban toxics, monitor train & truck shipments through region terrorism: community cohesion is solution Disaster Mitigation and Land Use: The Long Emergency: Peak Oil and Climate Collapse require paradigm shift Katrina disaster shows the Federal government response: we are on our own
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Ugliness and Beauty driving on the WEP would be more visually pleasant than driving past the West 11th strip malls ... but would ruin the landscape "little boxes on the hillside"
West 11th strip mauls Gateway / Beltline Coburg Road Springfield Main Street / Springfield lighting
Former Mayors Jim Torrey and Brian Obie were in the billboard industry, and the landscape of Eugene suffers as a result. Late in Torrey's second term, a large billboard (with Torrey's corporate logo at the bottom) magically appeared facing the Washington-Jefferson bridge off ramp. Now that Eugene has a mayor not connected to what is euphemistically called the "outdoor advertising" industry, the City has the opportunity to prevent further uglification. Here are several suggestions for coping with this problem. 1. Ban Billboards
2. Moratorium on more billboards
3. Ban lighting of billboards
4. Dark Sky Association recommendations for lighting
uglification - Wal-Mart / Target / Home Depot |
WETLANDS: West Eugene Porkway alternative
TRANSPORTATION after Peak Oil change regional plans to anticipate Peak Oil maintain road networks, don't expand them upgrade Amtrak and inter-city buses convert RV factories to make buses local manufacture of electric cars, bicycles no “mileage
tax” to track motorists 24/7/365
ENVIRONMENT ecoforestry: green business, clean industry zero discharge reduce garbage: waste is a terrible thing to mind intelligent (urban) design:
ENERGY build solar panel and wind turbine factories convert grass seed farms to grow biofuels require passive solar design in building codes relocalize production to reduce
consumption retrofit buildings: conservation & renewables initiatives for sustainable jobs after Peak Oil
SUSTAINABILITY paradigm shifts: psychological and political beyond boom and bust: steady state economy local food security, economic stability needs democratic
decisions, public health: single payer health care support local economy:
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