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STRONG Salem is for everyone who wants to help and participate in getting Salem, Oregon, to quit chasing Growth Ponzi Scheme plans and instead become a resilient, fiscally responsible place that lives by the wisdom that "Communities exist for the health and enjoyment of those who live in them, not for the convenience of those who drive through them, fly over them, or exploit their real estate for profit."
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Communities exist for the health and enjoyment of those who live in them, not for the convenience of those who drive through them, fly over them, or exploit their real estate for profit.-- Ted Roszak, "Where the Wasteland Ends"
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." (Henrik Tikkanen)
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." (Lewis Mumford)
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
If you are thinking a year ahead, plant seeds. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it’s my responsibility to make it better. (Gov. Tom McCall)
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." (Henrik Tikkanen)
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." (Lewis Mumford)
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
If you are thinking a year ahead, plant seeds. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it’s my responsibility to make it better. (Gov. Tom McCall)
Visit also
- STRONGSalem
- Strong Towns
- Oregon Public Empowerment News (OregonPEN)
- Salem Progressive Film Series -- must-see documentaries
- Salem's "Breakfast on Bikes" blog (More than just bikes)
- Salem Harvest (Another Best Salem Nonprofit)
- Resilience.org - formerly EnergyBulletin.net
- Congregations Helping People
- Pro Publica (Public Interest Noncorporate News)
- Scorecard (Pollution Report Site)
- Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air
- The Localizer
- Desdemona Despair (Grim but solid)
- Petition to Deny Corporate Personhood
- Nature Bats Last
- Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
- City Farmer News
- KMUZ 100.7 FM
- City Farmer -- great resource site
- Root Simple - low tech home tech
- For Climate Change Skeptics
- Low Tech Magazine
- Biodiesel Bob
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Why This Blog?
Jan 19, 2008: LOVESalem reaches the web, bringing a vitally needed message to Oregon's capital city: We must Oregon-ize to put the needs of people before the needs of cars. This requires that we live our environmental values -- that we LOVE (Live Our Values Environmentally) Salem -- by working to stop the Sprawl Machine.
The Sprawl Machine is a ravenous beast that feeds on green space, close-in neighborhoods, and property taxes and that excretes monstrous, ugly road projects that pollute the air, increase mortality and morbidity, promote climate change, weaken families and neighborhoods, and help weaken the social fabric and civic participation.
The Sprawl Machine works by constantly luring its prey with promises that the problems created by cars can be addressed by doing more of the same -- building more lanes, more bridges, consuming ever more money. In other words, the Sprawl Machine promises that we can keep doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different result this time.
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1 comment:
This is an amazing blog! I'm sorry I couldn't figure out how to send you a personal message, so hopefully this will suffice. I wanted to tell you about a forum next week that I think may be of interest to you and your readers:
As you read this, coal exportation threatens our right to live in a healthy community. Coal exportation will pollute our air and water with toxic coal pollution, put our communities' safety at risk, clog our railroads and waterways, and recklessly stoke the climate crisis all the way.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Oregon has always been at the forefront of this issue. Over 25 communities across the Oregon and Washington have passed city resolutions calling for an area wide environmental impact statement to assess the full implications of the coal export projects.
Governor Kitzhaber and the state agencies have the power to stop this invasion on our right to a healthy community. They can deny or delay permits and demand evaluations from federal agencies to block coal exportation here in Oregon.
Want to learn more about how coal exportation will affect Salem? Want to learn what you can do about it? Come to our Coal Hard Truth Forum!
Salem Coal Hard Truth Forum
Wednesday October 10th, 7:00-8:30pm
Willamette University
College of Law
Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
245 Winter Street SE, Salem
(Refreshments Provided)
Join us for an evening of panelists and Q & A, with experts talking about the health, economic, and environmental impacts of coal export projects in Oregon and Washington.
Speakers include Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Portland State University, senior physician at Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Hospital, and member of the Social Justice Committee and Board of Advisors for Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Reverend Rick Davis of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Salem, and Peter Frick-Wright, a frequent contributor to The Oregonian, Bike and Sierra Magazine, which sent him to cover the first coal export terminal proposals in 2010.
I'm happy to email you the official invitation and any more information you would like on this critical issue. You can reach me at lucy@greencorps.org
Best,
Lucy
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