"im so anticopyright. use and abuse anything i do, especially if it's useful!
I'm so excited to read y our cross-posts. The whole idea of greenwash is so important if we actually want to get anywhere."
Friday, 2 April 2010
dear pam cash!
pam cash! i think you are always right! i think i am going to move to oregon to participate in this phenomenon. take some enviro policy and try to get into enviro law if i can figure out how to finance it. if you have a scholarship foundation anytime soon, please help! so if i can't live my facetious edu dreams, then i will become one of those eco-hippie types, full time. but what is messed up about LA most of all is the air. i can feel it destroying my body, the lack of oxygen and rain. the smog takes 20 points off my IQ which fortunately i can spare, but really sometimes i want them back.
i think my smog adaptiveness fails me because i grew up around oxygen. my smog gills are just weak. they didn't learn how to convert thick carbon monoxide and airborne particulate into powerful ideas like, pop culture. i am stuck. my brain is hungry. i have to go.
even if oregon is a bunch of arm-chair activists and overeducated broke hippies, i really can't sacrifice my health much longer for life in this creepy town full of backward city planning, anti-recycling ethos, foul water, foul air, and narcissistic luddites. if you have any ideas feel free to write me. my anthro teacher set us up for this fun 8 week series at LACC sustainability with giovanna imbesi. of course she has copyright password protected her little workbook, because you dont want too many people to catch on, you know, it is important to keep it secret and elite and ego-based!!! but overall it is a rad class and i can't wait to present. and of course you know, LACC is not neo-richhippy melananin deficient trustafarian, by any means. we are talking a rad earth week, community garden etc.
of course admin is oblivious about discrimination and earth-hating policies.
they are so one-foot-in-the-grave boomer apathetic about everything, except their stupid paychecks.
i think you are profound. what i want to know is that if that organic food is soaked in acid rain & airborne carcinogens, and irrigated with petrochemical, pharmaceutical laced water . . . how organic is it?
and hey greenwash is what they call this magic wand eco-narcissism that is self-deceptive.
or in law there is a whole new wave of litigation contra the grand greenwash deception, which uses green brand identity to trick well meaning consumers.
fiji and windex are among the sued . . . that's kind of cool isn't it . . .
in response to amazing
pam cash's
http://pamcash.livejournal.com/909968.html:
"I got an email from a place called Common Circle Education in Berkeley, Ca about a class they devised called Urban Permaculture Design.
This excited me greatly. It'd been what I'd been clamboring for in my head. I envisioned Downtown having gorgeous rooftop gardens, solar panels, local economies that could increase the standard of living for a lot of my neighbors and peers. Local production, local commerce, all within our deliciously dense jungle. What I found on the site looked extremely disappointing. Not only did it look like the word "Urban" was only thrown in the title to make it sound cool (I didn't see one photo of an even slightly urban situation!), but it went on to talk about green building, etc...
now, I'm no architect, nor am I a surveyor, nor am I an environmental analyst, but I'm pretty sure that tearing down the old buildings here and building a nice new Woodsy lookin' palace for rich white people would use MORE RESOURCES than occupying an old one and restoring it and maybe even convert it to using nice Sun-energy.
They talk about how exciting it will be to learn about using cool natural irrigation systems. I know I'm excited to gather and harvest the one week of rain we get here in SoCal. Conveniently, the classes are in NorCal or Oregan where nobody has to worry about such bothersome dryness. Maybe they would tell us all to move out to their suburban havens, which surely wouldn't be havens anymore once they became dense and other non-agricultural economies moved in.
The thing is I WANT to do this permaculture stuff, I want to live sustainably and I want to create awesome communities. But can the solution be that you're either A) an agrarian, or B) a magically rich person in some undisclosed location who buys the stuff but doesn't really factor into the big picture? My guess is that they have their heads so far up their idealistic asses that they have disdain for any city dweller, especially us vile and perverted Angelinos. I watched their little video. "People live in cities... they're out of touch with nature." The same could be said with them and the reality of what is actually happening in the world and the type of change we really need.
So I wrote a letter. I copied it to paste here but then uncopied it to copy the link so now it's gone. It was through their site, not my gmail, so I can't go back and get it. Lost. But it basically talks about that, and about how people who are privileged enough to afford their class have a responsibility (in my opinion) to make it useful to people in lower socio-economic classes. For example, if I learn how to be an organic farmer and run away to live on a little commune, I help the world by making them food, but I run away from the huge problem of all the homeless people in LA, and all the other myriad problems here. We need solutions for our communities, not solutions that involve running off to a modern hut in Hawaii. I don't want to save the world by living in a fringe dream where I can ignore the huge problems that matter to all kinds of people, not just neo hippy people.
So they haven't written back, but I've received an automated response encouraging me to be their facebook friend.
I'm not just trying to pick on them. I want them to offer a class that can be useful to me, not a judgemental bullshit class about yoga in a forest. I want to be a part of the solution. Maybe a big part! But I also want to listen to metal shows on the weekends, wear fancy clothes and have martinis, go to perverted clubs and dance to really loud music, and make out with strangers. Unless you, the reader, are my parents, in which case I'd like to stay home and read books during my free time.
I'd encourage the HUGE readership of my blog to t ake a look at the site and tell me your opinion.
You can also check out the youtube video that infuriated me.
Conclusion: I want to help the world too. I just want to do it in a city. Because I think rural living is crap, and wastes a lotmore energy than it thinks it wastes. I don't want to have my own organic farm! But I love organic farmers. Thank you for making my food.<3"
pam cash! i think you are always right! i think i am going to move to oregon to participate in this phenomenon. take some enviro policy and try to get into enviro law if i can figure out how to finance it. if you have a scholarship foundation anytime soon, please help! so if i can't live my facetious edu dreams, then i will become one of those eco-hippie types, full time. but what is messed up about LA most of all is the air. i can feel it destroying my body, the lack of oxygen and rain. the smog takes 20 points off my IQ which fortunately i can spare, but really sometimes i want them back.
i think my smog adaptiveness fails me because i grew up around oxygen. my smog gills are just weak. they didn't learn how to convert thick carbon monoxide and airborne particulate into powerful ideas like, pop culture. i am stuck. my brain is hungry. i have to go.
even if oregon is a bunch of arm-chair activists and overeducated broke hippies, i really can't sacrifice my health much longer for life in this creepy town full of backward city planning, anti-recycling ethos, foul water, foul air, and narcissistic luddites. if you have any ideas feel free to write me. my anthro teacher set us up for this fun 8 week series at LACC sustainability with giovanna imbesi. of course she has copyright password protected her little workbook, because you dont want too many people to catch on, you know, it is important to keep it secret and elite and ego-based!!! but overall it is a rad class and i can't wait to present. and of course you know, LACC is not neo-richhippy melananin deficient trustafarian, by any means. we are talking a rad earth week, community garden etc.
of course admin is oblivious about discrimination and earth-hating policies.
they are so one-foot-in-the-grave boomer apathetic about everything, except their stupid paychecks.
i think you are profound. what i want to know is that if that organic food is soaked in acid rain & airborne carcinogens, and irrigated with petrochemical, pharmaceutical laced water . . . how organic is it?
and hey greenwash is what they call this magic wand eco-narcissism that is self-deceptive.
or in law there is a whole new wave of litigation contra the grand greenwash deception, which uses green brand identity to trick well meaning consumers.
fiji and windex are among the sued . . . that's kind of cool isn't it . . .
in response to amazing
pam cash's
http://pamcash.livejournal.com/909968.html:
"I got an email from a place called Common Circle Education in Berkeley, Ca about a class they devised called Urban Permaculture Design.
This excited me greatly. It'd been what I'd been clamboring for in my head. I envisioned Downtown having gorgeous rooftop gardens, solar panels, local economies that could increase the standard of living for a lot of my neighbors and peers. Local production, local commerce, all within our deliciously dense jungle. What I found on the site looked extremely disappointing. Not only did it look like the word "Urban" was only thrown in the title to make it sound cool (I didn't see one photo of an even slightly urban situation!), but it went on to talk about green building, etc...
now, I'm no architect, nor am I a surveyor, nor am I an environmental analyst, but I'm pretty sure that tearing down the old buildings here and building a nice new Woodsy lookin' palace for rich white people would use MORE RESOURCES than occupying an old one and restoring it and maybe even convert it to using nice Sun-energy.
They talk about how exciting it will be to learn about using cool natural irrigation systems. I know I'm excited to gather and harvest the one week of rain we get here in SoCal. Conveniently, the classes are in NorCal or Oregan where nobody has to worry about such bothersome dryness. Maybe they would tell us all to move out to their suburban havens, which surely wouldn't be havens anymore once they became dense and other non-agricultural economies moved in.
The thing is I WANT to do this permaculture stuff, I want to live sustainably and I want to create awesome communities. But can the solution be that you're either A) an agrarian, or B) a magically rich person in some undisclosed location who buys the stuff but doesn't really factor into the big picture? My guess is that they have their heads so far up their idealistic asses that they have disdain for any city dweller, especially us vile and perverted Angelinos. I watched their little video. "People live in cities... they're out of touch with nature." The same could be said with them and the reality of what is actually happening in the world and the type of change we really need.
So I wrote a letter. I copied it to paste here but then uncopied it to copy the link so now it's gone. It was through their site, not my gmail, so I can't go back and get it. Lost. But it basically talks about that, and about how people who are privileged enough to afford their class have a responsibility (in my opinion) to make it useful to people in lower socio-economic classes. For example, if I learn how to be an organic farmer and run away to live on a little commune, I help the world by making them food, but I run away from the huge problem of all the homeless people in LA, and all the other myriad problems here. We need solutions for our communities, not solutions that involve running off to a modern hut in Hawaii. I don't want to save the world by living in a fringe dream where I can ignore the huge problems that matter to all kinds of people, not just neo hippy people.
So they haven't written back, but I've received an automated response encouraging me to be their facebook friend.
I'm not just trying to pick on them. I want them to offer a class that can be useful to me, not a judgemental bullshit class about yoga in a forest. I want to be a part of the solution. Maybe a big part! But I also want to listen to metal shows on the weekends, wear fancy clothes and have martinis, go to perverted clubs and dance to really loud music, and make out with strangers. Unless you, the reader, are my parents, in which case I'd like to stay home and read books during my free time.
I'd encourage the HUGE readership of my blog to t ake a look at the site and tell me your opinion.
You can also check out the youtube video that infuriated me.
Conclusion: I want to help the world too. I just want to do it in a city. Because I think rural living is crap, and wastes a lotmore energy than it thinks it wastes. I don't want to have my own organic farm! But I love organic farmers. Thank you for making my food.<3"
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
EMFs Qlink
tuning fork mimics
human way
electrolytes
electric grids
cancers
bees dying
CFL bulbs
carbon 350 parts .org
bees are messed up by the cell phones
even when not on a call send for service
science proof
exhaustion
PHD
silent good night
tv at night
learning in sleep
plants absorb
solar farm at mission college
solar panels on new lifsci
green jobs for the new economy
new conference 75$
all students discussed transport and energy use major and passions
water alarm clockfrom
http://tangogroup.net/
only use ethical companies
landlords
lowflow showerheads
landlord responsibility
aerator.
kitchen faucet.
waste chapter for next week
community service
tuning fork mimics
human way
electrolytes
electric grids
cancers
bees dying
CFL bulbs
carbon 350 parts .org
bees are messed up by the cell phones
even when not on a call send for service
science proof
exhaustion
PHD
silent good night
tv at night
learning in sleep
plants absorb
solar farm at mission college
solar panels on new lifsci
green jobs for the new economy
new conference 75$
all students discussed transport and energy use major and passions
water alarm clockfrom
http://tangogroup.net/
only use ethical companies
landlords
lowflow showerheads
landlord responsibility
aerator.
kitchen faucet.
waste chapter for next week
community service
Sunday, 21 March 2010
caught a speaker attorney at the LACE gallery describing her defense of nigerian activists demonized by chevron for protesting chevron's material destruction of their way of life and enviro destruction.
notes:
notes:
Sunday
killer coke at the LACE gallery---screening of film about workers killed at cocacola bottling plant
columbia peace project--patrick
new lawsuit on killer coke website
ray rogers---
hormel boycott leader
international coke boycott
sparl LA campaign
lawyer theresa
NIGERIA
unsalinated water
oil activities
shell chevron---way of life destroyed part and parcel sea incursion water became salinated plants died
fish gone animals died no drinking water
new impovrishment
military dictatorships
chevron niger delta ilaga—subgroup
kill and go locally because of practices repressive violent crew
chevron developed for ghost jobs pittances graft non-existent
society dominated by men in speaking positions
some of the young men got edu analyze gas flares the dredging the oil spills to determine there were real connections w devastation in the communiities
organize aX tribes
to negotiate with chevron
block dredging of the canal
recreate areas
restore
desalinate
and to create real jobs
chevron policies of ghost jobs and scholarships----but divide and conquer---real issues not dealt with
concerned citizens ignored
chevron refused to meet
elders of 40-50 communities
bridged concerns
strict instructions to youth in nigeria to lead an excursion to an offshore oil platform protest to get chevron attention---some negotiations
chevron sent in a militia
navy army troups
paid a daily rate---flown in in-house security
two shot and killed
beaten
arrested and tortured
a number of people ilage tribe
came forward as a result
enviro rts org
NYC org lawsuit
brought in san fran federal cts
chevron's corp headquarters outside of san fran
and v. two subsidiaries
alien torts statute
allows to
sue companies for human rts abuses
viplations of accepted norms
genocide
extrajudicial killings
unacceptable.
For approximately
issue
abathco regime in full force
late 90s regime change to a democratically elected regime
bias twds govt.
some of thos changed
not a fair heading
cant bring a case against
actions by nigerian subsidiary
judge 2004 trial vs american corporations
making case connection creating limited liability
for subcorporation subsidiary
prove that the nigerian subcorp had control over the troups
investigations
underlying
octopus ax globe
chevron---downplay the environmental impacts towards community
to be front and center
re the real act, as you would expect
fall 2008 TRIAL
is the legal syst niger equador fair to indigenous concerns
on the other scale
will american juries understand the scale as what is going on
seen as protesters
or will they be seen as ecoterrorists
evidnce and language issues
chevron taught workers to testify using language of “pirates”
center from cross exam
how did you come to that
prep for deposition
atty promoted pirate
deposed on videotape
hamstrung at trial
judge
allowed either to testify with these words or not at all
ultimately a lot of extraneous evidence allowed
to paint her clients as terrorists
anti-nationalist
anti-tribal
racist overtones in the defense
threaten kidnapping and take hostages
jury not in her favor
court needed a unanimous
on appeal
strong issues
judge
very smart moderate judge 9th circuit neither l nor rt
significant errors in jury instructions
hopeful
difficult to reverse
struggles of people in nigeria
continue to attempt to negotiate with chevron
debate over govt.
uproar
hospital
second in command
chief enviro activist
hope for inroads in govt for better balance btw multinationals and the federal power.
Spring 2009 settlement success story
people whose lives were shattered
any boycotts
org in san fran
nigeria org started in in early 2008
there is organizing chevron has flooded airwaves about how great chevron is---ads---multicultural PR everpresent during the trial banner ad front page san fran chronicle
activism to dispel truth.
Graphic arts re:nigeria??? carol wells asks
she went to nigeria atty therese.
Distribution is so easy
students put out a call contra chevron
laura labotti in san fran best person to talk to re poster acquisition
re interested re edu posters
Saturday, 20 March 2010
adorable
green law!!!
greening the law office!!!
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202444368106&Opposites_Attract
for architects, builders, lawyers esp in the new orleans
re zoning, LEED cert
legal issues
hooray
green law
yale
lewis and clark
green law!!!
greening the law office!!!
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202444368106&Opposites_Attract
for architects, builders, lawyers esp in the new orleans
re zoning, LEED cert
legal issues
hooray
green law
yale
lewis and clark
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
sustainability digital texts thru password-protected digital files
no impact man
transport
water chapter
presentations:
pacific salmon dies after it spawns
chinook king
altantic salmon can spawn multiple times
salmon stats
commercial overfishing
habitat destruction
runoff industrial and agricultural
commercial and sport fishing salmon
banned
salmon rescue package to help the families suffering from species extinction
nothing for the salmon
seals and sharks
food source
cultural
chinook salmon totem pole
inuit salmon dance
commercial farming
wild salmon born in a hatchery---they are farmed salmon
delta, san joaquin, sacramento river
source for all the land irrigation on the way to san fran
fishing fees pay for preservation
PFMC
pacific fisheries management counsel
diversion of water does not coincide with fish patterns
scott clapson from southern oregon:
klamath
remove dams
water fm desert to wet
goes thru old salmon plants
protected fish
food chain problems
warming, other effects, problems
water pollution
seals sharks will be affected
sustainable
dept of fishing
stable levels
MPA
marine protective areas
fishing is controlled
licenses
water
balance the system
90% halibut gone in the world
hurts the native americans, as we divert water from their path
ggoogle search
bioaccumulation salmon
delicious PCBS
mercury
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=bioaccumulation+salmon
pubmed and epa stats
allowable parts per million
water from the city
new law can only water mon thurs
before 9 after 4pm
250 ticket
lawn water waste
3000 estates for the lawn
native plants require less care
CSA
community supported agriculture
documentary
rights to see the garden about the south central farmers
scottclapson@gmail.com
organics up near bakersfield
15$ for a huge box of organic veggies
30% fuel to move water in SO CAL
lowflow showerhead
waterfall activates the brain
why long shower?
reduce
april 12 waterless carwash---
greywater
april 13 sustainability fair
water used for coal
44% coal energy LA
hopi and navajo
displaced
displaced again for coal mine
now they have no water
beyond coal campaign with sierra club
social justice issue as well
BPA free
metal bottles
company lost credibility
stainless steel
consumptive ideas
no impact man
transport
water chapter
presentations:
pacific salmon dies after it spawns
chinook king
altantic salmon can spawn multiple times
salmon stats
commercial overfishing
habitat destruction
runoff industrial and agricultural
commercial and sport fishing salmon
banned
salmon rescue package to help the families suffering from species extinction
nothing for the salmon
seals and sharks
food source
cultural
chinook salmon totem pole
inuit salmon dance
commercial farming
wild salmon born in a hatchery---they are farmed salmon
delta, san joaquin, sacramento river
source for all the land irrigation on the way to san fran
fishing fees pay for preservation
PFMC
pacific fisheries management counsel
diversion of water does not coincide with fish patterns
scott clapson from southern oregon:
klamath
remove dams
water fm desert to wet
goes thru old salmon plants
protected fish
food chain problems
warming, other effects, problems
water pollution
seals sharks will be affected
sustainable
dept of fishing
stable levels
MPA
marine protective areas
fishing is controlled
licenses
water
balance the system
90% halibut gone in the world
hurts the native americans, as we divert water from their path
ggoogle search
bioaccumulation salmon
delicious PCBS
mercury
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=bioaccumulation+salmon
pubmed and epa stats
allowable parts per million
water from the city
new law can only water mon thurs
before 9 after 4pm
250 ticket
lawn water waste
3000 estates for the lawn
native plants require less care
CSA
community supported agriculture
documentary
rights to see the garden about the south central farmers
scottclapson@gmail.com
organics up near bakersfield
15$ for a huge box of organic veggies
30% fuel to move water in SO CAL
lowflow showerhead
waterfall activates the brain
why long shower?
reduce
april 12 waterless carwash---
greywater
april 13 sustainability fair
water used for coal
44% coal energy LA
hopi and navajo
displaced
displaced again for coal mine
now they have no water
beyond coal campaign with sierra club
social justice issue as well
BPA free
metal bottles
company lost credibility
stainless steel
consumptive ideas
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