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SustainEugene.org
home page www.sustaineugene.org
PeakChoice.org cooperation or collapse
PeakTraffic.org transportation triage instead of trillion dollars of bigger highways
ForestClimate.org - Clearcutting the Climate
JFK MLK RFK.com - Legacy of the Sixties - Coup In America
OilEmpire.us - A Political Map - Limited Hang Outs - Best Evidence - Disinformation
Climate Recovery Action Plans
Citizens State
City & County 2009
2009 event
food security: Aleta Miller
forest preservation & restoration: Samantha Chirillo
land use & growth: Bob Emmons
Lane County 2025: Jan Spencer
transportation triage: Mark Robinowitz
Lane County climate plan: highway expansions & clearcuts
Eugene Climate Action Plan 2.0: 2019 update
carbon credits, electric cars, green growth
ignores new arenas, highway expansions, clearcuts
2014: Climate Recovery Ordinance = carbon credits for bigger Beltline
Eug. Sustainability Commission: ignored highway widening,
staff said aerial spraying can be safe
Good Company: City's climate contractor, also promotes plastic incineration
Carbon neutral isn't - peakchoice.org/carbon-neutral.html
City slogan "World's Greatest City of the Arts and Outdoors"
Eugene claim: USA's greenest city
Sustainability Quiz
urban reserves vs. farmland
Urban Reserves:
2022 expansion of Eugene to Junction City, Veneta
Food Security by Dan Armstrong
Agriculture as if food security mattered, by Aleta Miller
grass seed conversion to food
Hole Foods: kept out of Eugene (2006), now here
government
Rep. Peter DeFazio:
clearcuts, highways, nukes
Rep. Val Hoyle: concerned about climate, votes for bigger highways
Dr. Kitzhaber prescribed
clearcuts and helicopter herbicides
Kitzhaber timber panel: clearcut consensus
City of Eugene
Eugene City Manager: unelected power
A Tale of Two Mayors: hidden history of WEP
20-211 Vote No City Fee
Bonny Bettman at City Club Feb. 13, 2009 (1 hour, 70 MB)
Police Accountability by Josh Schlossberg 2008
2007: Eugene voters stopped downtown giveaway
Eugene legalized electronic billboards: 2019
dams, emergencies
Permanent Emergencies: Climate, Peak, Overshoot
Permaculture for Disaster Mitigation
A Dam Big Problem: Aging Dams
and the Willamette Valley tsunami
Cascadia Subduction earthquake
Volcanoes
Forest Fires, Clearcuts, Mitigation
Fireworks
coastal tsunami dangers
Floods
the next Missoula Flood & Hanford rad waste
wind storms
Beltline, 126
widenings
126: Eugene to Veneta - $200 million widening over water
Beltline
Beltline widening up to 16 lanes at Willamette river
Beltline - West Eugene Porkway canceled interchange
I-5 Beltline interchange: low build
would have saved over $100 million
other Oregon highways - peaktraffic.org/oregon.html
I-5 Troubled Bridges Over Water
Transportation Triage at the end of the age of oil
Lane County
Peak Oil and Highway Planning:
in 2004, Lane Co. predicted gasoline $2.50 in 2025
Regional Transportation Plan: $1 billion hwy widening
Lane County transportation: full speed ahead
road requests 2015
Region 2050: Lane County planning
ignores Peak Oil and Climate Chaos
WEP West Eugene
Porkway 1951-2007
WETLANDS alternative & reasons Feds rejected WEP
slideshows (PDFs): WEP intro / lawsuit
WEP 1951 - 2007
WEP lawsuit (never needed to be filed)
No Build: promised June 2001, decision March 2007
WETLANDS vs. Federal Highway Administration
Federal laws: the reason the WEP was not approved
Section 4(f) prohibits paving parks
Nov. 2001: City Election did not determine Federal policy
Federal Hwy Administration
Federal aid highways are Federal decisions
Save Our ecoSystems vs. FHWA (1996)
Cooperating Agencies illegally excluded
Endangered Species Act: WEP would need a "license to kill"
Environmental Injustice, Whiteaker, WEP
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Purpose & Need: WEP vs. WETLANDS
Segmentation and Logical Termini
Western Terminus
Eastern Terminus
Phase "1A" - Beltline to Seneca
"Couplet" (5th & 7th Pl.)
WETLANDS Alternative
WETLANDS details
WETLANDS 2 page PDF
WETLANDS: much cheaper than WEP
Transfer WEP land & money
Purpose & Need: WEP vs. WETLANDS
WEP vs. WETLANDS: traffic lights
WEP maps 1951-2007
WEP maps: all
Hidden History: 1951 - 2008
1959: Roosevelt Freeway, south hills 30-30 connector
1967: Roosevelt Freeway, Beltline through South Hills to LCC
1978 T-2000 Plan
1970s: 6th 7th freeway
1970s: Whiteaker Bypass
WEP: 1985 - 2007
Aerial Maps (2002)
routes: 1997, 2003, 2005
East of Danebo (2005)
Beltline interchange
West of Danebo (1997, 2005)
5th - 7th Couplet (2005)
Eastern Terminus (1997, 2005)
Spring 2005
eastern, western termini
Western terminus
Eastern terminus
BLM parklands
2002: Crandall Arambula worse version (2002)
2002: WETLANDS alternative
WETLANDS map
WETLANDS - big map
October 2003: WEP update
2006: FHWA proposed new (really, old) route
2006: year to stop WEP
parks or parkway?
West Eugene Parkway or Parklands?
(2002 article, wet prairies, wetlands plan)
West Eugene Wetlands aerial photos
Amazon Creek relocation: Beltline / WEP
Bertelsen Nature Park
Native Plants of the West Eugene Wetlands
Sand and Gravel: elevated expressway through wetlands
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglass
protected a park from a parkway
Highway Robbery: $88 million to $169 million
the money was not there
WETLANDS cost
traffic: WEP would have made worse
Levels of Service - Traffic Congestion caused by WEP
Traffic counts hyped
Mary O'Brien: Crandall Arambula worse WEP
West Eugene Collaborators & Osprey Grou
West Eugene Collaborative (2007-8)
WEC welcomed "half WEP" proposal but didn't push it after my complaints
Collaboration has two meanings - "collaboration" about WEP alternative(s)
Osprey Group: consultant for "West Eugene Collaborators"
Osprey Group report on "collaboration" (2006)
Crandall Arambula - worse version of WEP (2002)
Mary O'Brien & Crandall Arambula
Rob Zako promoted Crandall Arambula
Don Kahle wanted WEP w/ Bus Rapid Transit
top lies about WEP
Peak Oil & WEP
WEP Dictionary
EmX
bus
EMX bus rapid transit
good idea, needs better implementation
Public Transit after Peak Oil
RV factories: convert to bus manufacture
activist
malpractice
a better foundation for environmentalism
Collaboration: two meanings, one nice, one not
Cooperation: only one meaning
climate and energy
not so Good Company
promotes incinerators & carbon credits
unnatural gas powers electricity, too
Our Children's Trust: promote nukes, ignore limits to growth
PIELC: Public Interest Environmental Law Conference pro-nuclear keynotes
enviros campaign for offshore drilling ban where there is no oil,
acquiesce to state plan for $18 billion bigger highways
forests are the lungs of the Earth
Private Forest Accord:
promote buffers for aerial sprays, not a ban
Beyond Toxics: aerial spray buffers, opposes ban
Cascadia Wildlands
NCAP: NW Coalition Alternative to Pesticides
Oregon Wild: a mild approach
transportation
Crandall-Arambula, 1000 Friends, Friends of Eugene
offered worse version of West Eugene Porkway
would have ruined planned lawsuit
West Eugene Collaborators: two flavors of elites
politics
Wayne Morse Center: Morse was told by JFK
he had ordered withdrawal from Vietnam
OLCV: Oregon League of Compromised Voters
1000 Friends of Portland
Measure 37 & 49
Oregon energy
EWEB, gas, nukes
NuScale
new nukes
EWEB December 5, 2023 public comments:
NuScale financial meltdown
electrification? gas makes more electricity than dams
in memorium: Walter Youngquist, UO geologist, Peak Oil expert
section under construction
the Saudi Arabia of biomass energy
wind power increasing but needs dams & gas as backup
dam removal: Elwha, Wa. & Snake River
aerial spray
& clearcuts
Ban aerial spraying vs Private Forest Accord
2020 Private Forest Accord - continued corporate clearcuts and aerial spray
Beyond Toxics: beyond ridiculous
Cascadia Wildlands
Oregon Wild: a mild approach
Eug. Sustainability Commission: spraying can be safe!
Peak Forests: overcutting Oregon
Biofuels: electricity & liquid fuels (page under construction)
Kitzhaber timber panel: clearcut consensus
Dr. Kitzhaber prescribed clearcuts, helicopter herbicides
Clearcutting the Climate - www.forestclimate.org
Oregon State Forests: clearcuts for kids
Selective Forestry - forestclimate.org/selective.html
Cascadia's original old growth
Conserving Corruption: Welfare for Wildish
Eugene
Weakly
Eugene Weakly: letters & op-eds
Register Guard: letters & op-eds
Eugene
quacks
Beltline-126 -
EWEB
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WEP
laws
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climate
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oil -
unnatural gas
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peak electricity
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gas&electricity
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limits
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peak traffic
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new:
www.wholecommunity.news/2024/05/12/at-50-oregon-wild-has-become-oregon-mild/
[repeal deal between enviros & big timber that continues
aerial spraying of herbicides
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www.wholecommunity.news/2024/04/22/why-eweb-wants-smart-meters/
[natural gas and peak electricity]
Levels of Service
Traffic Congestion caused by WEP
