Monday Mailing
Year 22 • Issue 18 25 January 2016 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
America’s Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers Gov. Brown Appeals to Obama for Resolution to Malheur Occupation Should Oregon Counties Be Allowed To Ban GMOs On Their Own? Farmers Push To Repeal 2013 Law. 5 Simple Exercises To Fix The Damage Your Desk Job Does The Dawn of System Leadership A New Metric for Community Resilience Oregon Transportation Safety Planning – Online Open House Bolivia's 2nd-Largest Lake Has Displaced Hundreds, If Not Thousands The Modern Built Environment Richest 62 People As Wealthy As Half of World’s Population, Says Oxfam
1. America’s Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing The morning I wrote this I took public transportation to work. I hopped on the bus around the corner from my house, then the train for a few stops farther. I took mass transit because it was convenient, because my card was already preloaded with the cash that diverts from my paycheck, and because the ride gave me 20 minutes to start the day browsing Twitter.
Quote of the Week: "See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy." ~Stephen R. Covey
Baked into this decision, however, were a number of other nearly subliminal calculations about the alternatives not taken. I did not drive the car (yes, my household has a car) because downtown Washington, D.C., is a hot mess at rush hour, and because parking near the office costs the equivalent of a fancy hamburger a day. I did not bike because it was snowing. (Again.) And I did not walk because the distance was too far. To access the full story, click here.
Oregon Fast Fact: Oregon’s state motto is “Alis volat propriis” (She flies with her own wings)
2. Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers This is a toolkit for little places, the ones that don’t have a Volunteer Coordinator or a Development Officer or even a full-time Director, the ones that depend almost exclusively on volunteers. These communities are the sum and substance of both the Appalachian Coal Country Team and the Western Hardrock Watershed Team and it was these rural communities that provided the research base for this project. You will find three basic sections, each of which can provide significant insight and ideas for rural volunteers. The first is Rural Volunteer Statistics, an extensive survey of the volunteers themselves— learn just who our rural volunteers are, what they do, where they associate and how best they can be reached.
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