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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
West Eugene Collaborators:
Bypassing Sustainability:
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Green Building & Boondoggles
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
& Coast Range
- Aerial Herbicides blanket our 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 zero 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
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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www.oregongeology.com/earthquakes/Coastal/TsunamiIntro.htm
Geologic Hazards on the Oregon Coast
An introduction to tsunamis
from the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
“... Tsunami maps of the Oregon coast were produced by DOGAMI in response
to a bill passed by the 1995 Legislature, limiting construction of new hospitals,
schools, and other similar public-service buildings in tsunami flood zones.”
www.oregonlive.com/public_commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/110518954584020.xml
Tsunami provides Oregon with a teachable moment
Monday, January 10, 2005
BILL MORRISETTE
“This is the ultimate teachable moment," said Onno Husing, after
hearing of the terrible events in the Indian Ocean. He meant teachable in
Oregon.
Husing directs the Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association. He also was
the one-man staff of the Oregon Joint Interim Uniform Tsunami Response Planning
Task Force.
In 2002-2003, I chaired that newly created task force because of my concern,
and that of others, that a 9.0-scale earthquake would someday occur close
to the Oregon coast, triggering a giant tsunami wave over lower-elevation
parts of the coast. My interest was sparked by Wilbur Ternyik, a longtime
public official in Florence, who told me several years ago that the coast
-- visitors in particular -- was ill-prepared for a tsunami.
During the spring of 2002, a group of legislators and other policy makers,
emergency management personnel and a state regional geologist met to discuss
how best to protect an unbelieving public from a tsunami that could propel
a 40-foot wave to the beach in 15 to 30 minutes. The geologist warned that
such a wave had occurred in Oregon before, in 1700, and that one today could
kill 10,000 people if it hit crowded Seaside on a warm summer weekend.
Our task force ultimately submitted Senate Bill 650 during the last legislative
session. It would have authorized the state Office of Emergency Management
(which supported the bill) to establish tsunami warning information, evacuation
plans and a uniform tsunami warning signal. The warning signal was already
being planned and randomly implemented as we met.
What was not acceptable to some on the coast is the part of the bill that
read: "Requires transient lodging facilities located within the tsunami
inundation zones to post tsunami warning information and evacuation plans."
Objecting to highway signs designating tsunami danger areas, one coastal mayor
said, "It sounds like we are inviting people to come to my city to die."
He was an exception -- many coastal officials recognized the problem and supported
the bill. But a powerful legislative committee co-chairman killed it.
Now the events of Dec. 26 may persuade both legislators and a previously apathetic
public that something terrifyingly similar could -- and inevitably someday
will -- occur in Oregon.
Husing is organizing a Tsunami Summit of experts and officials in February.
And I will re-introduce SB 650 in the new legislative session that begins
this month.
Sen. Bill Morrisette, D-Springfield, represents central Lane and Linn counties.
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