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Food Security
Regional Food Security
Food System Infrastructure
Urban / Rural Cooperation
Farmland Management
Fairgrounds Repair Project
Bean and Grain Project
Lane County Food Assessment
Transportation Choices
Peak Traffic and Peak Oil
Highway Bailouts & Finite Funds
Federal Bridges To Everywhere
$18 billion for Oregon roads
Lane County Request to ODOT
Regional Trans. Plan $817 mill.
Transportation Triage
Troubled Bridges Over Water
Spy Roads: GPS Mileage Taxes
Amtrak Cascades hi-speed rail
LTD Bus Rapid Transit
RV factories to make buses
Saving Oil in a Hurry
W. Eugene Parkway alternative
Bicyclist & Pedestrian Safety
Land Use: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Big Look task force
Regulation and Enforcement
Intelligent Urban Design
Big Boxes or Local Businesses
Block Planning
Reusing Parking Lots
Billboards Bans
Dark Sky laws: Light Pollution
Forest Restoration, Preservation
Cascadia's Original Forests
Peak Forests: Overcutting
Does Money Grow on Trees?
Long Rotation Forestry
Forest Biomass
Burning trees for electricity

Forest Biomass: liquid fuels
Wilderness and Biofuel Thinning
Clearcutting the Climate
Vision for Cascadian Forests
Public vs. Private logging
Federal Forests: USFS, BLM
Oregon State Forests
County Payments
City of Eugene Forests
Private Timberland Tax Policy
Clearcuts, Roads & Landslides
Herbicide Spraying
Forest Fires & Clearcuts
Ecoforestry examples
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Value-Added vs Log Exports
Carbon Sequestration
Alternative Fibers (non-tree)
express your views
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Oregon State Legislature
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Media guides

Eugene Climate and Energy Action Plan: a mix of good intentions, greenwash and self-censorship

 

Disaster Planning and
the Long Emergency
Risk Mitigation with Permaculture
Cascadia Subduction earthquake
Volcanoes and inter city transport
A Damn Big Problem: Aging Dams
floods, hospitals and farmland
windstorms and urban forests
urban wildland interface and fire
fireworks
toxic spills: roads, rails, factories
The Long Emergency:
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Renewable Energy
and Green Jobs
EWEB's relocation to wetlands
solar power on every roof
wind turbines on the coast
wave energy and tidal power
methane biogas
algae (non-GMO?)
conservation, the first priority
Liquid Natural Gas - a new danger
Sustainabull: Greenwash
Sustainability Means Zero Oil
Carbon Credits Are Greenwash
Burning trees for electricity
Understanding Energy
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Energy Return on Investment
Electricity and Oil
Beyond Growth:
Ecological Economics
Peak Money
Steady State vs. Smart Growth
beyond the limits to growth
recession, depression, collapse
corporate welfare
Local Currencies
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Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Union Pacific Railyards
Grass Seed Smoke
forest slash burning, plastic tarps
Formaldehyde from Plywood
Nanotechnology
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Public Accountability
Education
U of O Arenas

 

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Burning Forests for
Electricity and Liquid Fuels

Deforestation is Bad Energy Policy

a public forum co-sponsored by
Cascadia's Ecosystem Advocates
SustainEugene.org
Eugene Rising Tide

Thursday, March 5 -- 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Harris Hall, Lane County Auditorium
8th & Oak, Eugene, Oregon
free admission

presentations by:

Mark Robinowitz, SustainEugene.org
"Peak Forests and the Electric Power Grid"

David Monk
Lane Regional Air Protection Agency Board of Directors
"Air Pollution From Forest Biofuels"
(presented as an individual, not on behalf of LRAPA)

Samantha Chirillo, Co-Director, Cascadia's Ecosystem Advocates
"Dispelling Myths: Forest Biofuels Impact on Forests & Climate"

The use of forest biomass for electricity and liquid fuel, currently proposed by our state and federal elected officials, threaten our climate and economic security with little return on energy invested. This presentation will dispel the myths that there is “waste” in a forest ecosystem and that large-scale forest “thinning” projects are needed to reduce fire risks.

Grinding up our forests into wood chips to burn for electricity or to make "cellulosic ethanol" could only meet a small amount of our energy demand.  Efficiency, reducing demand, and real renewables are more appropriate near term solutions. Turning trees into so-called "green power" risks widespread deforestation that would turn our lush valley into a desert and do little to postpone the energy crises caused by Peak Everything.