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February 16, 2012
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Welcome to
“E-UPDATE” – a twice-monthly news brief to keep you
informed of the work of the Corvallis
Sustainability Coalition and to invite your participation. Please
forward this “E-UPDATE” to members of your participating organization
and to other interested individuals. Check our website at www.sustainablecorvallis.org.
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Be part of the conversation!
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Register TODAY for Town Hall 2012
Registrations are filling up fast for the annual Sustainability
Town Hall to be held Thursday evening, March 1, on the OSU
campus at the CH2MHill Alumni Center, 725 SW 26th Street. Don’t
miss out on the sustainability event of the year!
The Sustainability Fair is scheduled from 5:00 to 7:00
pm, with the town hall meeting to follow from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Once
again this year, the fair and town hall will be a model sustainable event,
featuring zero waste, low energy and water use, and local food. Attendees
are encouraged to help out by using energy-efficient transportation to get
to the event: walk, bike, carpool, or take the bus. For bus routes,
see www.corvallistransit.com.
The fair will include more than 40 hands-on exhibits,
highlighting the sustainability efforts of local businesses, organizations,
and Coalition action teams. Music will be provided by an OSU student
jazz combo, and snacks provided by Valley Catering will feature ingredients
grown or produced in the Local 6 area – Benton, Lane, Lincoln, Linn,
Marion, and Polk counties.
Following the fair, attendees will gather in the Alumni Center ballroom for a town hall
meeting focused on action toward sustainability. The “2011
Community Scrapbook” of photos from Coalition partner organizations
will celebrate their sustainability efforts, and two locally-produced
videos – one by Silverman Studios on “Buy Local First”
and another about the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project
– will inform and entertain.
A special focus of this year’s town hall will be what
we can do individually and as a community to reduce our carbon footprint.
Attendees will be encouraged to share their stories and to become engaged
in action.
This event is free and open to the public. All are
welcome, but space at the town hall meeting is limited. Register by
Feb. 28th at www.sustainablecorvallis.org.
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Transitioning to a new
economy
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Richard Heinberg Lecture at CHS
February 29th
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Is traditional
economic growth the best measure of human health and welfare?
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How
might we pursue improvements in education, the arts, health, well-being,
freedom, and happiness without depending upon ever-expanding consumption?
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What
does a transition to a new economy look like that doesn’t depend on a
model of growth based on cheap energy, reckless consumption and financial
speculation?
World-renowned author
and educator Richard Heinberg will address these questions and more in a
special lecture in Corvallis:
Wednesday, February 29 - 7:00 pm
Corvallis High School Auditorium
Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is
widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil
educators. He is the author of ten books including End of Growth (2011), The Post Carbon Reader (2010, editor),
Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last
Energy Crisis (2009), Peak
Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007), and Powerdown: Options & Actions for a
Post-Carbon World (2004).
Co-sponsors include Abundant Solar,
CASSE, Corvallis Sustainability Coalition, Element Graphics, HOUR Exchange,
Occupy Corvallis, Pacific Green Party, Resilience Network, Spring Creek
Project, Veterans for Peace, and Vitality Farms.
For
more information, contact Courtney Childs at 541-766-8229.
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Eco-Film
Festival Feature
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PLAY AGAIN
Friday, February 17, 2012
7 pm Doors open
Ÿ 7:30 pm Film showing
Odd Fellows
Hall, 223 SW 2nd
Street
What
are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature?
Follow six
Portland-area young people as they move from virtual reality to real
connections.
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Guiding Objectives
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A Framework for Decision-Making
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Our
community will:
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Reduce and ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to
fossil fuel dependence and to wasteful use of scarce metals and
minerals. Use renewable resources whenever possible.
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Reduce and ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to
dependence upon persistent chemicals and wasteful use of synthetic
substances. Use biologically safe products whenever possible.
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3. Reduce and
ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to encroachment
upon nature (e.g., land, water, wildlife, forests, soil, ecosystems).
Protect natural ecosystems.
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4. Support
people’s capacity to meet their basic needs fairly and efficiently.
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Have
you registered for Town Hall?
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Town Hall 2012 is just two weeks away,
and registrations are filling up. Don’t miss the sustainability
event of the year! Register at www.sustainablecorvallis.org.
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