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."
Thursday, October 2, 2014
YES ON 92: Scary cost estimates are utter BS lies
Not in My Food
Consumer Reports plays it straight when analyzing things, and their work shows that the cost of Measure 92 is trivially small. http://consumersunion.org/news/gmo-labeling-will-cost-consumers-less-than-a-aenny-a-day-new-report-says/
GMO Labeling: Facts not hype!
Take a moment to forward this to your friends and family so they can get the facts about GMO labeling costs.
Your message will contain a link to the report findings, so your friends can read for themselves what the real cost of labeling will be: Only $2.30 a year per consumer, not industry exaggeration of $200 or more.
After you forward this, you'll find a page where you can read the report if you want more details: notinmyfood.org/gmo-labeling-fact Thank you for helping us spread facts about GMO labeling, not hype!
"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."
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)
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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