Oregon Candidates On Active Transportation Issues

by JayinPortland

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has released candidate responses to their four question survey on active transportation issues in Oregon.

The questions asked of candidates for Governor (guess who didn't respond!), US Senate, US House and numerous state and local races were -

1. What programs and other public policy initiatives do you support for making Oregon communities more accessible for pedestrians and bicyclists?

2. What programs and other public policy initiatives do you support for improving the safety of road users, particularly vulnerable users (e.g., better education for road users, increased penalties for unsafe vehicle operation, other statutory modifications)?

3. What programs or other public policy initiatives do you support to ENCOURAGE the use of bicycles for transportation?

4. Please list the active transportation projects, if any, in your district for which you have provided assistance or support?

Let's take a look at some of the more interesting (and fun!) responses...

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10/10/10/10/10/10: Where will you be?

by A Siegel

A simple question:  Where will you be at the

• 10th second of the
• 10th minute of the
• 10th hour of the
• 10th day of the
• 10th month of the
• 10th year?

As for me, in a little more than 10 hours, I will be in an attic, adding insulation to cut down power demands.  And, a few hours later, I will be with my children 1000s of others in front of the White House.

My action will be among the smallest of the Global Work Party.

A day to take action to reduce carbon emissions to make a simple statement to our political leadership -- around the world: we can do it, why can't you?

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Secret Meeting Participants Flee From Delta Residents, Fishermen

by Dan Bacher

The 50 participants in a secret meeting deciding the fate of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta on September 30 decided to leave rather than to allow four Delta advocates to listen to the proceedings.

Bill Jennings, chairman/executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA); Jim Crenshaw, president of CSPA; Bret Baker, a Delta pear farmer, biologist and Restore the Delta board member; and I disrupted the meeting of Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to protest the closed process.

We arrived at the meeting of “principals” of the BDCP at the Farm Bureau office in Sacramento just as the meeting was getting started. You could feel the tension and sense the surprise by the federal and state agency officials, water agency leaders, corporate agribusiness officials and others gathered there as we walked into the back of the room.  

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Stupid Goes Viral: Climate Zombies of HI, ID, MN, MT, OR, WY

by RLMiller

They prowl the halls of Congress, moaning for caaasshh.

Their stupid has gone viral.

And if they win, humanity loses.

I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and Governor who doubts, denies, or derides the science of climate change. Today, I finish up all states west of the Rocky Mountains, plus throw in Minnesota as a bonus, and find not one, but two  Republican incumbents who admit the reality of climate change.  

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We can't afford to have the government spend

by citizen k

Business travelers in France can get on 250 mile an hour trains that leave from clean modern stations on time. American businessmen can sit in traffic on the way to aging airports over broken roads or take old slow trains that bump along rails that were obsolete in the 1960s. Because we can't afford modern railways in America.  We can afford a trillion dollar war in the middle east in which the government airlifted crates of cash that then disappeared.

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Recovery ACT gives 1.4 billion to GE for Caithness Shepard(WIND) Project!

by jovie131

The Administration announced late Friday, that it has approved 1.4 billion for the giant wind farm in Oregon.
GE was the company that managed the deal, GE had been lobbying for such a deal to take place and finally attracted the support of the WH!

Join me over the jump for discussion:

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Rare Chance to ? WH on Climate--in a Few Hours

by Bill McKibben

It’s been a long year for people who care about global warming: the failures in Copenhagen and in Congress were great blows.

But it’s been a pretty good week: the announcement  on Tuesday that the Obamas would put up solar panels on the WH roof, the pictures the next day of Maldivian president Mohammed Nasheed doing that very thing, the announcement yesterday that Illinois governor Pat Quinn is going solar too. Oh, and the mayor of Mexico City announcing that they’ll cut carbon emissions in the world’s third largest city by 10%.

All of this leads in to 350.org’s huge Global Work Party on 10/10/10.—which, with 7000 events in 188 countries will be the largest day of environmental action in the planet’s history. Hell, it will be the most widespread day of political action on any issue ever.

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Sounds Like Soup!

by Miep

Here it is almost 10/10, and the 10/10 people are having many hundreds of events, and I wish all of those people the greatest of luck, even though they may occasionally make an over-the-top video and post it on YouTube.

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