Text/Foto Presentations
A brief look at global trends followed by a variety of timely local choices that can lead to many benefits. This feature is the online version of a 90 minute DVD [for sale] slide show with narration I produced.
Slide show version of a paper presented at the Eco Cities World Summit, San Francisco, 2008
Making use of Available Assets for Creating Safer, More Secure and Resilient Neighborhood
Fotos, graphics and explanation of this little known approach to land use redesign. The City of Eugene contracted with designer/architect Mike Pease to promote Block Planning, 25 years ago. A Plan was never actualized but the tools and process are still there and the reasons to make use of Block Planning are more urgent than ever.
Fotos and text provide a brief review of the history of suburbia
Foto Galleries
Images and brief descriptions from River Road
Homes and properties in River River Road with green features, gardens, solar, fences down, collaborations between neighbors, environmental restoration, home business, chickens, greenhouses and much more
Another bike tour in a different neighborhood with similar features.
Putting into place a 3000 gallon water tank, the long way around.
One day educational conference organized in 2010 by the NLC Committee on Sustainability
A very impressive BART Transit Oriented Development site south of downtown
Oakland, CA.
Also of Interest
Global Food - Fotos lifted from Smithsonian Magazine
Fotos show a week's worth of food from Turkey, Japan, Mali, Bhutan and California that reveals an enormous amount about culture and economics.
Fiction Story, Eugene 15 Years into Recovery. Part complete, part still to be written. Illustrations.
Fotos from speaking tour in California, 20010
Unauthorized Occupation of a downtown parking lot for a fun afternoon