The Shedd Institute
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Dan & Peggy Neal
Steve Earle
& The Dukes
with The Mastersons
Tuesday, October 1
Chris Cornell
to creating a law to protect the local food
system. Lastly, corporate rights and seed
patents are two of the largest threats to our
local food system, and must be frontally
challenged to protect our local farmers’
ability to grow food free from corporate
interference.
Unless Lane County and other
Willamette Valley communities claim their
right to local self-government in order to
dismantle rampant corporate rights that
now take precedent over our well-being,
we are simply powerless to protect our
local food system. Industrial agriculture
and its accompanying GMO seed patents
threaten our local farmers’ ability to grow
local food that relies on uncontaminated
natural systems to fl ourish.
The proposed ordinance protects our
local food system. Our existing natural and
legal systems require a complex initiative
to meet this single objective.
Ann B. Kneeland
Eugene
OUR NATURAL DEBT
Aug. 20 marked an event of global
importance that was not covered by
local media. It was Earth Overshoot
Day 2013. It’s the date, estimated every
year by the Global Footprint Network,
by which the human species “consumes
all the renewable resources and the CO2
sequestration that this planet can supply for
an entire year.” This means that the current
human demands on our environment are
not sustainable. Each generation of us is
not leaving the world a better place for
our children. We are not even leaving it
the same. We are constantly degrading and
eliminating the natural resources that will
provide the standard of living for future
generations.
Earth Overshoot Day has occurred
about three days earlier each year for the
past 20 years. The GFN estimates that
“our demand for renewable ecological
resources and the services they provide
are now equivalent to that of more than 1.5
Earths.” This demand will increase to two
Earths by mid-century.
Some folks rant about the “national
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wtih Bhi Bhiman - Saturday, October 19
debt” and how it’s a shame and disgrace
to burden future generations with it. Much
more real and urgent is the natural debt.
You can’t print more water or grow the
atmosphere.
Jere C. Rosemeyer
Eugene
WRONG DIRECTION
We Oregonians have a responsibility to
care for our forests now and into the future.
Today we face the daunting challenges
of climate change, pollution and species
extinction. The plans put forward by Rep.
Peter DeFazio and Sen. Ron Wyden to
clearcut 1.5 million acres of our public
forests without essential protections are
the exact opposite direction to go. There
is misleading information that all the old-
growth forests will be protected. This is
not true; old growth will be cut and these
older trees sequester more carbon than
younger trees. Six of the top 10 carbon-
storing forests in the U.S. are in Oregon.
Privately owned forests are carbon neutral,
which means they do not sequester more
carbon than the carbon released by the
massive clearcutting. We should increase
the timber harvest tax to raise revenue.
What do the best independently
funded forest biologists say about these
plans? A recent bipartisan Pew poll found
Oregonian’s top priorities are to protect
public lands and water. It would be nice for
our representatives to work for the citizens.
It seem to me this clearcut legislation is a
payback to Big Timber.
Pamela Driscoll
Dexter
WHAT’S THAT SMELL?
The good ol’ boys crowned Liane, an
agenda for pursuing/ Any that opposed
them, had lawsuits soon ensuing.
Investigations, backroom deals, the
costs just kept accruing/ The cronies got
the favors, taxpayers got the screwing.
Liane was ruled by hubris, it proved as
her undoing/ The county gov. has a stench
that did not come from pooing.
Scott Fife
Eugene
Friday, October 25
Rufus Wainwright
sponsored by
The Brockett Family
Bernadette
Pe
Peters
ters
Mon, October 28 - Hult Center - 682-5000
Coming up at The Shedd
10.1
10.4
Steve Earle
Moombah! The
Shlubby Submarine
10.10-19 The Jazz Kings
At the Jazz Band Ball
10.11 Greg Brown
10.18 John McCutcheon
10.19
10.25
10.28
11.1-3
11.8
11.24
www.theshedd.org
Chris Cornell
Rufus Wainwright
Bernadette Peters (Hult)
Siri Vik: Fine and Mellow
Bill Frisell Big Sur Quintet
Carl Woideck: Live at the
Blackhawk. Miles Davis, ‘61
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