Our friend Eli very recently posted this video on YouTube. As serious as he is for the cause, the vehicle for fundraising makes me laugh. He is such a good guy and funny besides.
I tried to imbed the video, but couldn't make it happen, so here is a link to click on.
Another Riverbend garbage dump hearing last night.
Lasted until almost 11pm.
This hearing is to rezone the dump to EFU, Exclusive Farm Use.
Yeah, right. Like that land can ever be farmed again.
A travesty and an insult to real farmers and real farms.
Feels like living in a Kafka novel or Alice making her way down the rabbit hole.
For those who don't live around here, this will be amazing, and a little difficult to understand.
Waste Management, the largest international garbage corporation in the entire frickin' world, is asking to rezone the dump to Exclusive Farm Use so that they can then expand the dump onto land that is currently in farm use.
Can this possibly be real? Or did George Orwell make this up?
As I said in my testimony,
"Let's get this straight, this rezoning of dumpland to farmland will allow farmland to become dumpland."
Expansion of the dump onto some of the best farmland in the entire world on the banks of the South Yamhill River.
And the Yamhill County Commissioners will fall all over themselves to approve it.
And it will go to court.
In the meantime Waste Management continues to dump 1000's of tons of unsorted garbage daily
on the banks of the South Yamhill River,
which flows into the Columbia River,
which flows into the Pacific Ocean.
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This is Oregon.
This is the Willamette Valley
This is Oregon's heralded wine country.
This is lunacy.
And the video below is a sad testament to what happens to garbage when it enters the earth's waters.
A sad testament to the state of the earth and the oceans.
“It is the corruption of truth, the abandonment of the due process law. It is the use of the big lie and the unfounded accusation against any citizen in the name of Americanism or security. It is the rise to power of the demagogue who lives on untruth; it is the spreading of fear and the destruction of faith in every level of society.”
Truman, in 1953, after he left the presidency, speaking of McCarthyism.
"We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a charm and a drama that are seductive, especially to politicians and financiers; but bigness promotes greed, indifference, and damage, and often bigness is not necessary. You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and to market it locally." Wendell Berry
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don’t believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place?~ Annie Dillard
In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.Zen saying
"I don't take pictures as much these days, but that doesn't mean that things don't look as beautiful to me as they once did." George Andrus, 95, photographer, singer and movie maker.
This blog is for me, my family and friends. Not going to be editing it as if it is for the world. However, if you find your way here, I hope you enjoy your stay.
