Salem's Mayor and City Council: Screw you, kids, we've got ours

Salem's Mayor and City Council scoff at sustainability

// HinesSight.

This is appalling. With one exception, the people occupying the seats where we need leaders are simply serving as order takers for the Sprawl and "Growth" lobbies, ignoring the fact that unchecked growth in part of an organism at the expense of the rest is the very definition of cancer.

Just as a video of a cop shooting an unarmed fleeing man in the back and then planting a taser by his body to fabricate a justification for murder is forcing America to come to grips with our still unresolved problem of race, we daily see votes in cities large and small where elected officials -- individually nice people, hardworking people with charm and the best of intentions -- are shooting America and the whole world in the back and telling themselves that it's ok, they didn't mean to do it, their only concern is their little burg, and anything that provides "growth" in their little burg justifies itself.

Here's what the bellhops with titles in elected positions have brought us-- the curve that leads to the end of the world as we know it, and it won't feel fine.

"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."

An encouraging word

Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/21/regenerative-economy-holism-economy-climate-change-inequality
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TEDxTraverse City- Yong Zhao- Teach Children to Invent Jobs

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/NOXAJzqm2Rw


"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."

Fwd: A Somber Anniversary, And One Way *You* Have Made A Difference

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From: Ken White, Post Carbon Institute <ken@postcarbon.org>
Date: April 20, 2015 at 14:38:51 PDT
Subject: A Somber Anniversary, And One Way *You* Have Made A Difference
Reply-To: Ken White, Post Carbon Institute <ken@postcarbon.org>

View this email in your browser Five years ago today... ...the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people...   photo: Associated Press ...and devastated the Gulf.   photo: Shutterstock.com A year later, the oil industry had California's Monterey Shale in its crosshairs...   photo: Shutterstock.com ...based on the US Energy information Agency (EIA) estimating over 15 billion barrels of oil were technically recoverable.   photo: Jeremy Miller, High Country News This guy, Post Carbon Institute Fellow Dave Hughes, said, "Not so fast," and...   ..with your support, Dave wrote this PCI report, showing that these estimates were wildly overstated. Dave was right. photo: Shutterstock.com A few months later, the EIA downgraded their estimate by 96 percent, putting industry on the defensive, and putting an end to the hype. DONATE NOW Your support makes a huge difference. Please donate now. Facebook Twitter Website Copyright © 2015 Post Carbon Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to one of Post Carbon Institute's mailing lists by signing up at our website or an event, or by requesting a sample publication. If you'd like to cut down on your inbox clutter, we understand. Simply hit the unsubscribe link below and have a great day. Our mailing address is: Post Carbon Institute 613 4th Street, Ste 208 Santa Rosa, California 95404 Add us to your address book

Delusion is not Exceptionalism or Optimism

Important movie at Salem Cinema now, "Merchants of Doubt," all about how other industries, most importantly the fossil fuels industries, took the tobacco playbook and have run with it ... Obviously with great success, managing to convince huge majorities of Americans that they themselves won't suffer from climate disruption.  

I guess if you're as old as the Koch Brothers and as rich, that might be a defensible position, if you are also as sociopathic as the Koch Brothers and aren't harmed by knowing that we are condemning the present poor in all countries and all future generations to a catastrophically diminished and much more dangerous world.

I remember taking business school classes for my masters program in the 90s and that's when I realized the horror that the rich really do think their money will protect them and that they can busily build a protective wall of money while the rest of the world and America go to hell and that they won't be suffering the consequences – just like the Bourbon rulers in Versailles, and likely to lead to the same sorts of outcomes.

There wasn't even one county in which a majority of respondents believe global warming will harm them personally. In sharp contrast, majorities in 3,122 of 3,143 counties (more than 99 percent) do agree that future generations are at risk, with those responding in the affirmative hailing from places like Sheridan County, Wyoming—in the heart of coal country.

New climate change poll shows Americans believe in global warming.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/06/new_climate_change_poll_shows_americans_believe_in_global_warming.html
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New Oregon-Focused Issues/Legal Online Weekly Subscription Public Interest Newspaper

I don't want to spam you all too much, but I am hoping that you will consider becoming charter (or even better, lifetime) subscribers to a new venture into public interest publishing by the chief cook and bottle washer at LOVESalem:

Attorney John Gear has broadened his "values-based Oregon law practice" to add a new venture that seeks to expand access to justice for more Oregonians struggling against economic inequality and hardships than ever before. 

On February 14, 2015, Oregon's birthday, John Gear Law Office LLC launched a subsidiary "Public Benefit" ("B") company called "Oregon Public Empowerment Network LLC" (OregonPEN.org). The company's first major project is an online weekly newspaper, Oregon Public Empowerment News (OregonPEN), an all-digital weekly subscription newspaper that will operate for the public interest. Once revenues exceed expenses, net revenues will be directed to public service organizations, starting with Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO).

Subscriptions are available now at OregonPEN.org, and there is a low-income subscription option for just $10 annually. 

The mission of OregonPEN will be to provide local Oregon news and legal news that is "All Signal, No Noise." 

Although publication of legal notices in OregonPEN alone will not satisfy the requirements in ORS 193 for legal notices until Spring 2016, OregonPEN will spend the year until that time building staff, expertise, and contacts for covering local and legal news that actually matters for the long run: no horoscopes, no celebrity sex lives, no fluff -- just deep content and perspective that will help readers be engaged and empowered effectively, not just this week but this year, and next year, and beyond.

Prior issues are available for download at the archive: OregonPEN.org.  This week's issue includes an editorial proposal for reforming the legal regime for regulating substances like tobacco and marijuana and activities like gambling.

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First They Came for the Sardines… [feedly]

First They Came for the Sardines…
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A must read: Report debunks ‘earlier is better’ academic instruction for young children

We're definitely letting schooling interfere with their educations ... 

Report debunks 'earlier is better' academic instruction for young children - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/12/report-debunks-earlier-is-better-academic-instruction-for-young-children/?tid=hybrid_linearcol_3_na
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The sugar lobby’s sour tactics

Like the other great industry built on slavery (tobacco), sugar has no intention of letting the fact that its product harms users get in the way of its profits.

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The sugar lobby's sour tactics - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sugar-lobbys-sour-tactics/2015/04/10/9fb5b78a-dfa7-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
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After the Rally Against Fast-Track Corporate Takeover, 7 p.m. Salem Progressive Film Series!

http://salemprogressivefilms.net/film/the-human-experiment/

https://player.vimeo.com/video/121820044

The Human Experiment lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, our homes and inside of us. Simultaneously, the prevalence of many diseases continues to rise. From Oscar® winner Sean Penn and Emmy® winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, The Human Experiment tells the personal stories of people who believe their lives have been affected by chemicals and takes viewers to the front lines as activists go head-to-head with the powerful and well-funded chemical industry. These activists bring to light a corrupt system that’s been hidden from consumers... until now.