LOVESalem (http://lovesalem.blogspot.com/) by JMG
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.
Building more infrastructure to serve automobiles evokes an important insight: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and thinking you’ll get a different result.
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Bankrupt biofuel barons brawl but Big Bro’s budget battered
The Corndoggle 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago The Portland, Ore. “Willamette Week” has a fairly decent piece on the (fiscal) implosion of the outrageously heavily subsidized ethanol plant in Clatskanie, Ore., which (briefly) produced some “homegrown” motor fuel using 100% imported corn and 100% imported natural gas. Read More -
Oregon's folly
Oregon tries to undo ethanol leg. while ‘enviros’ lobby for biofuels subsidies 0
Posted 8 months ago Oregon is struggling to undo bad ethanol legislation. Read More -
Biocharged
George Monbiot cautions against grasping for environmental miracle cures 0
Posted 8 months ago George Monbiot is the best environmental writer in English. Read More -
Algal biodiesel -- also a magic pony
High energy requirements make the manufacture of algal biofuel prohibitive 35
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago Robert Rapier has an important post on the prospects for algal biodiesel: Read More -
Why not medium-speed rail? 8
Posted 9 months ago The always-excellent Sam Smith, a keen observer of politics and society as a journalist for over 50 years, introduces an outstanding long piece on the high-speed rail money in the stimulus:There's nothing wrong with high speed rail except that when your country is really hurting, when your rail system largely falls behind other countries' because of lack of tracks rather than lack of velocity, and when high speed rail appeals more to bankers than to folks scared of foreclosing homes, it's a strange transit program to feature in something called a stimulus bill.
One might even call it an… Read More -
Wrestling with hard choices
Monbiot on nuclear 6
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago George Monbiot writes a column about nuclear power and conditions under which he would not oppose it. Read More -
The elephant in the cancer ward
We need to stop blaming victims of breast cancer and start researching envirotoxicity 3
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago Having been touched by breast cancers in numerous women important to me, I've long been astounded by the extent to which discussions of the subject start by blaming women -- you picked the wrong parents, you didn't have your kids soon enough, you forgot to have kids, you ate too much, you ate the wrong things ... on and on and on.Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D, an environmentalist and brilliant poet, writes about the medical-industrial complex and its instant assumption that the genesis of cancer is in the genes in her outstanding book Living Downstream. Sadly, her message seems to… Read More
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California's shocking unreasonableness
DFHs take over, threaten Big Agribusiness 8
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago "Biofuel companies are worried about the impact California's low-carbon standard could have in that state and elsewhere."Freaking hippies. If God had meant people to use land for growing food instead of fuel for cars, he wouldn't have created lobbyists. Read More
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Save the North American biped! 0
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Fighting the devil down in Georgia
Georgia legislator introduces bill that would restrict coal-fired power plants 3
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago If Georgia would consider restricting coal, maybe we are stumbling toward a new economic/energy paradigm? Read More
