Text/Foto Presentations

Global Trends - Local Choices - Creating A Safer, More Secure and Greener Community

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.

Converting a Suburban Property into a Model of Eco Logical Culture Change

Slide show version of a paper presented at the Eco Cities World Summit, San Francisco, 2008

Creating Resilient Neighborhoods

Making use of Available Assets for Creating Safer, More Secure and Resilient Neighborhood

Block Planning

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.

Suburban History

Fotos and text provide a brief review of the history of suburbia

 

Foto Galleries

Around the Neighborhood

Images and brief descriptions from River Road

Foto Gallery - Two Green Home Tours in River Road Neighborhood, July 17 and 18

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

Foto Gallery - Jefferson Westside Bike Tour, August 14

Another bike tour in a different neighborhood with similar features.

Foto Story - Moving the New Big Tank

Putting into place a 3000 gallon water tank, the long way around.

Eugene Local and Green

One day educational conference organized in 2010 by the NLC Committee on Sustainability

Foto tour of Fruitvale-

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 - Windmill Co-op 2035

Fiction Story, Eugene 15 Years into Recovery. Part complete, part still to be written. Illustrations.

Not So Close to Home

Fotos from speaking tour in California, 20010

Parking

Unauthorized Occupation of a downtown parking lot for a fun afternoon