Monday is World Water Day. Portland Gray Water Day was a year ago, but the campaign to keep water in private hands but not private corporation claws, goes on. Oh the irony: as humandkind awakes to the value of H2O, human nature awakes to the profit inherent in controlling the world's last drops of potable water. Then there is gray water. Recode Oregon cleared a pathway through the legal jungle preventing Portlanders from using their own run-off. Odd isn't it that you literally have to change the Law of the Land to get your hands on the Water of Life. Recode celebrates the victory on Monday and invites the city to join the party. (March 22nd 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the SEA Change Gallery 625 NW Everett #110, in case you were wondering...)
Here’s a story of a timberland holding company in Portland “doing well by doing good”, in the words of Tom Lehr. Ecotrust Forests has made a deal to sell carbon credits tied to a forest parcel it owns on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. In terms of PR, this is indeed priceless – but wait! There’s more. Ecotrust hopes to showcase this sale as an example of how carbon markets would work in this region in a cap-and-trade world. The company plans to log less frequently, more selectively, and to leave greater setbacks along streams and steep slopes than the law requires. The carbon credits have already been sold to a New York middleman. Ecotrust is indeed “doing well”. But is it really “doing good” by selling carbon credits while the trees are still falling? Recall the Tom Lehr lyrics referred to The Old Dope Peddler…
And take a look at the LundReport.org. Health Insurance execs show surreal healthy income...Headache? Nausea? Vomiting?
And here's another one:
- KBOO