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1999: Could green energy fund the library?: How about a solution to the library funding problem, that would not only be an educational and architectural enhancement for the community, but a model of sustainability and a tourist attraction?
1998: Killing live trees to bury dead people: Eugene has continued to win annual acclaim as a "Tree City, USA" -- but how is a mystery, as tree cutting seems to be a major activity.1999: A lose-lose situation: Local bibliophiles were shocked and dismayed to learn that Peralandra, a Eugene favorite for over 20 years is closing, yet another victim of the influx of chain book stores.
1998: Do we really need the Eugene Airport?: The Eugene airport has spent $30 million on expansion since 1987 and is down from six airlines to two.
1998: Life's blood: A letter to the EWEB board on its search for more water.
1998: The MAI losing favor, but reincarnating in the IMF: The proposal, an amendment to the IMF's Articles of Agreement, is based on some of the most extreme MAI provisions.
1998: The cost of growth in Oregon: Eben Fodor's review of 25 years of literature on the fiscal impacts of growth revealed that urban growth is far more likely to drain local treasuries than to enhance them.
Paul Hawken's vision of a sustainable future: His book, The Ecology of Commerce, is being lauded for its hopeful vision of a truly sustainable economy.
1996: The Natural Step -- The road to sustainability?: Everyone talks about "sustainable development," but the reality appears illusory. The work of Swedish oncologist, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert, however, may provide a road map.
1998: Everybody's talking about the weather AND they're doing something about it: Unfortunately, what they're doing is obviously not the something that needs to be done about the weather.
1998: Rights are worthless if you don't know you have them: The average American knows nothing about the UDHR or any other international treaties establishing rights -- and rights aren't much good if you don't know you have them.
2000: Grinding plowshares into gravel: It's the Pits! Eugene Sand & Gravel vs River Road Farmland - A report on the March 29, 2000 Town Hall meeting, hosted by the CPA.
1998: Sewage in, rich fertilizer out: Most of us are oblivious to the processes that treat and neutralize our sewage and keep our drinking water safe.
1998: A desire named Streetcar: There are now more cars than people, people are making more and longer trips, and we are heading for gridlock.
Farmworkers under attack: In Oregon and elsewhere, farmworkers are fighting back. The Oregon farmworker union PCUN is organizing statewide resistance to this latest anti-worker effort by growers.
1998: Any thinking person must act - An eco-odyssey of a CEO: The keynote speech by CEO Ray Anderson at the University of Oregon's Second Annual Sustainable Business Symposium on November 13, 1998.
1998: 25 years of Oregon land use law: Robert Liberty of 1000 Friends of Eugene relates history.Sustainable business - An historical perspective: From Joel Makower, editor of the Green Business Newsletter and author of many books on environmental business practices.
1998: Just say no to growth: Finally -- an organization focusing on the nemesis behind the multitude of problems facing us and calling it by its true name -- growth. 1998: The roads to hell: Testimony at two 1998 public hearings on the Draft TransPlan update being reviewed by the Eugene, Springfield and Lane County Planning Commissions.©Wanda Ballentine