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Greenwash is Sustain-a-Bull: big steps to sincere sustainability
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Green(wash) Eugene
"World's Greatest City of the Arts and Outdoors"
We're Number One? Eugene claims to be the greenest city in the country
Triple Bottom Line vs. Sustainability
Carbon Credits for Highway Widening
Hole Foods: successfully kept out of Eugene (2006)
not so Good Company
A Field Guide to Oregon's Environmental Groups
1000 Friends
Friends of Eugene
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon Wild
West Eugene Porkway
WETLANDS alternative & reasons WEP wasn't approved
slideshow: introduction, virtual tour (13 mb. PDF)
Federal Hwy Administration
WETLANDS Alternative
WETLANDS alternative & reasons WEP wasn't approved
WETLANDS map & details
WETLANDS 2 page PDF
WETLANDS cost
Transfer WEP Land & Money
Purpose & Need: WEP vs. WETLANDS
WEP vs. WETLANDS: traffic lights
June 2001: Torrey, Pape, Green agreed to "No Build"
Nov. 2001: City Election did not determine Federal policy
Top Lies about WEP
Peak Oil & WEP
WEP Dictionary
Cost
Highway Robbery: the money was not there
WETLANDS cost
West Eugene Collaborators
West Eugene Collaborative (2007-8)
Collaboration has two meanings - "collaboration" about WEP alternative(s)
WEC welcomed "half WEP" proposal but didn't push it after complaints
Osprey Group report on "collaboration" (2006)
Osprey Group: consultant for "West Eugene Collaborators"
Crandall Arambula - worse version of WEP (2002)
Mary O'Brien
Rob Zako
Don Kahle (Comic News) wanted a WEP with Bus Rapid Transit
WETLANDS vs. FHWA (legal)
Federal laws: the reason the WEP was not approved
Save Our ecoSystems vs. FHWA (1996)
Section 4(f) prohibits paving parks
Cooperating Agencies illegally excluded
Endangered Species Act: WEP would need a "license to kill"
Environmental Injustice, Whiteaker, WEP
Federal Aid Highways are Federal decisions
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.)
traffic: would have been worse
Levels of Service - Traffic Congestion caused by WEP
WEP vs. WETLANDS: traffic lights
Traffic counts hyped
Ecology: parks or parkway
West Eugene Parkway or Parklands? (2002 article, wet prairies, wetlands plan)
Aerial Photos of West Eugene Wetlands
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
WEP Maps & History
list of all WEP maps
Hidden History: 1951 - 2008
Roosevelt Freeway: 1951 - 1972
1959 Roosevelt Freeway, 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
Crandall Arambula worse version (2002)
WETLANDS alternative
WETLANDS map
WETLANDS - big map
October 2003 update
FHWA proposed new (really, old) route - 2006
2006: year to stop WEP
MX bus
UO: You Owe
Governments
20-211 Vote No City Fee
2012: None of the Above - an honorable choice
Peter DeFazio
Eugene City Manager: unelected power
A Tale of Two Mayors: hidden history of WEP
Eugfield Springene merger
Bonny Bettman at City Club Feb. 13, 2009 (1 hour, 70 MB)
Eugene Human Rights City: solar powered tasers and organic pepper spray
identity politics vs. power structure
Devil's in the details: DeFazio's new Wilderness and more logging for biofuels
Sen. Ron Wyden: war funds, Patriot Act
Doctor Kitzhaber prescribes clearcuts and helicopter herbicides
Kitzhaber timber panel: clearcut consensus
Disasters
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
Floodplain
the next Missoula Flood & Hanford rad waste
wind storms
land use for disaster mitigation
Citizens State
of the City 2009
Aleta Miller: food security
Samantha Chirillo: Forest Preservation & Restoration
Mark Robinowitz: transportation triage
Bob Emmons: Land Use
Jan Spencer: Lane County 2025
Climate & Energy
Action Plan
Summary: Peak Choice for Eugene
Eugene Climate and Energy Action Plan: a mix of good ideas and greenwash
Cut Energy
50% by 2030
CEAP and energy cuts: 50% cut in energy by 2030?
Peaked Oil and Climate Chaos
can't burn fuel that does not exist
oil wells: half full, half empty
Enviro groups seek ban on Oregon coast oil drilling (where there isn't any oil)
Involuntary Simplicity
Peak Money: not a recession - beyond the limits on a finite Earth
Buildings
and Energy
CEAP, green building, energy
Peak, Climate and Buildings
Green Building: voluntary or mandatory
Green Building: a more rigorous approach (by Rob Bolman)
Little Houses on the Wet Prairie
Edifice Complex: sports arenas
EWEB
EWEB relocation and urban expansion
EWEB Green Power and forest biomass burning
Food &
Agriculture
CEAP and food
Peak, Climate and Food
Grass Seed: convert to food production
Food Security by Dan Armstrong
Extension Service abandoned by city, county
Community gardens doubling in price
Land Use
Transport
CEAP, land use, transport
Peak Traffic
Transportation Triage
Peak Oil & West Eugene Porkway
Lane County transportation: full speed ahead
Envision & Expand Eugene
Eugene Springfield projects
Regional Transportation Plan - $1 billion
Beltline widening: River to Coburg Rd. - $250 million
Gateway (I-5 Beltline) interchange "low build" alternative would have saved $100 million
Lane County Roads 2010 to 2015
Widening I-5
I-5 troubled bridges over water
Other Oregon Highways
Oregon's Dead Highways: Portland & Salem
Gov's Transportation Vision Committee - $18 billion
Columbia River Crossing: Peak Traffic Alternative
Sunrise Freeway (Clackamas)
Newberg Dundee Bypass
North Corvallis Bypass
Region 2050
Measure 37 & 49
Public Transit After Peak Oil
Downtown Disastrous Development: Eugene needs intelligent urban design
RV factories: convert to bus manufacture
Trains
Higher Speed, not high speed
train to the coast?
Pioneer Route (Portland - Salt Lake)
Edifice Complex
sports arenas
Big Box Stores
Little Houses on the Prairie
bicycle and pedestrian safety
saving oil in a hurry - strategies
car sharing
Consume
and Waste
CEAP, consumption, waste
Peak, Climate and Consumption
Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Keep Eugene Green: Ban Billboards
Health
Services
CEAP and health care
Peak, Climate and Health
Hospital siting
Single Payer is not Obamacare
Preventing Toxic Harm
Natural
Resources
CEAP and natural resources
Peak, Climate and Resources
Kitzhaber timber panel: clearcut consensus
Clearcutting the Climate
Peak Forests: overcutting Oregon
Forest Biofuels: Electricity and Liquid Fuel
Urban Ecology
Conservation Corruption: Welfare for Wildlish
Corporate Clearcuts
Cascadia's Original Forest
Dr. Kitzhaber: clearcuts and helicopter herbicides
State Forests: Oregon's Clearcuts for Kids
National Forests
Selective Forestry
WEP Western Terminus