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Greenwashing:
public relations boosterism
What is greenwash?
Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Tenth Edition
greenwash (n):
"Disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
Derivatives greenwashing. Origin from green on the pattern of whitewash."
Ecocentrism:
Eugene not "number one Green City"
"World's Greatest City of
the Arts & Outdoors"
world's most absurd slogan
TREES:
Transportation, Energy,
Environment, Sustainability |
TRANSPORTATION
after Peak Oil
WETLANDS Alternative:
West Eugene Transportation,
Land and Neighborhood
Design Solutions
- 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
Hybrids should not subsidize Hummers
West Eugene Collaborators:
Intelligent Urban Design & Butt Ugly Architecture
- Wayne Morse federal building: Homeland Security
- Strip Mauls: West 11th
and Coburg Road
Bypassing Sustainability:
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
ENVIRONMENT
Protection and Restoration
- ecoforestry:
selective logging to restore tree farms to forests
no clearcuts or biocides,
value added products
- green business, clean industry
myco and bioremediation,
- zero discharge
ban toxics to protect public health
carbohydrate
economy, no petrochemicals
- reduce garbage: waste is a terrible thing to mind
- intelligent (urban) design:
beauty not ugliness
(prevent strip mauls, billboards)
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:
Plywood glue factories
Railroad pollution
wood preserving
- Grass Seed Capital of the World:
Pollen and Smoke Pollution
- Nano-pollution info at oilempire.us
ENERGY
for the Year 2025
Region 2050 & limits to growth
- 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
(fewer delivery trucks)
- retrofit buildings: conservation
& renewables
- initiatives for sustainable jobs after Peak Oil
SUSTAINABILITY
is not efficiency, it is post-petroleum
- paradigm shifts: psychological and political
- beyond boom and bust: steady state
economy
- local food security,
more community
gardens,
teach gardening skills at neighborhood levels,
protect farm soils
from "development"
regional inventories of food production and
processing
- economic stability needs democratic
decisions,
Campaign Finance Reform
- public health: single payer health
care
- support local economy:
strengthen
local businesses,
build downtown Farmers Market
not Whole Foods predator,
ban big box megastores & franchises\
Human Rights City?
- Chinese Olympics
- June 1, 1997:
pepper spray used on
peaceful protestors
- rapist cops convicted of felonies
- scaring toddlers
- tasers
Green Building & Boondoggles
greenwash groups:
Activist Malpractice
Disasters:
preventative, permaculture perspectives
Disaster Mitigation and Land Use:
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Eugene needs intelligent (urban) design
Hospitals, Earthquakes, Floods,
and Lahars
Troubled Bridges Over Water:
the I-5 bridge crisis
West Eugene sprawl in floodplains: WEP, Target megastore, Royal Node
subdivision
The Long Emergency:
Peak Oil and
Climate Collapse require paradigm shift
Katrina disaster shows the Federal
government response: we are on our own
Eugene: the bubble
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$817,716,000 of new and wider roads
for Eugene and Springfield through the rest of the age of oil
Kitty Piercy's November 2007 swing vote at the Lane Council of Governments Metropolitan Policy Committee gave the City of Springfield legal authority to lobby Peter DeFazio for federal funds for road expansions
On November 8, 2007, Mayor Kitty Piercy cast the pivotal vote for the Regional Transportation Plan to allocate $817 million for the metro area's road projects during the rest of the petroleum era. (about 2/3rd of that before the Year 2031, and the rest at some unspecified time after that).
If Kitty Piercy had voted no, then the City of Eugene would have blocked implementation of this at the Lane Council of Governments Metropolitan Policy Committee, since the other Eugene representaitve at MPC was Alan Zalenka, and he voted no on the RTP.
Since she voted yes, the City of Springfield now has authority to go ask Peter DeFazio for Congressional appropriations to upgrade Route 126 in Springfield into an Interstate Highway so lots of ugly plywood boxes can be built in Thurston. The developers and speculators and road builders are greatly relieved that Kitty Piercy voted against the environmental point of view, since otherwise plans for Springfield's sprawl would be stopped.
Approved by the Metropolitan Policy Committee of the Lane Council of Governments on November 8, 2007
The City of Eugene was represented by Mayor Kitty Piercy and Councilor Alan Zalenka.
http://lcog.org/meetings/mpc/1107/
2031RTP_Chapters1-4_Nov-07Adoption.pdf
(4 megabyte file)
Financially Constrained Roadway Projects
$532,462,000
(road construction through the year 2031)
Illustrative Roadway Projects
$285,254,000
(road construction planned after the year 2031 - in other words, desired projects that local officials have no clue how to fund)
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