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Task Force brainstorming meeting minutes
Submitted by organic brian on June 1, 2006 - 2:07am.
City of Portland Peak Oil Task Force
- PPO meeting notes: discussion of options to suggest to the task force, from the May 30th 2006 meeting.
The meeting was fast and furious... staggering loads of great ideas. A lot of these notes will be extremely brief and even cryptic... they are from the facilitator outline created as the meeting was in progress. Feel free to post with corrections or to elaborate.
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PUBLIC INPUT / AWARENESS (how to get the word out)
- get input at every Peak Oil meeting
- churches
- alternative media: News4Neighbors, Portland Indymedia, KBOO Community Calendar, various blogs / newswires
- tabling Pioneer Square
- Met. Alliance for Common Good
- guerrilla marketing: events with zany / wacky aspects more likely to be covered by papers (Oregonian, WWeek, Tribune, Mercury)
- seniors groups
- neighborhood associations
- icons: people identify with icons, how to create an identity for Peak Oil and represent the ideas as images (much like a cartoon lightning bold representing a power company)
- info with utility bills: PGE, NW Natural, CUB, Water Bureau
SUBCOMMITTEES
- Health Care
- Outreach
- Agriculture
HOUSING
- housing goals in graphic image
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- curriculum
- summer programs
- stories about the future
- arts & crafts program
DOING WHAT'S GOOD ANYWAY (has benefits regardless of energy scarcity)
- Community Farms / CSA's
- Johnson Creek restoration (benefits by providing flood control)
- visual images: young students (OR School of Arts / Crafts?)
- promoting local commerce / localization of resources: Think Local First (thinklocalportland.org)
- composting (flaws w/ Metro)
- incentives from City for sustainable practices that eventually save the city money: rainwater harvesting, lower-impact transportation choices... suggestions were incentives and rebates
- reducing auto trips: promote scooters / cycling
- multi-modal transit: multi-use trails
THINGS TO ACCOMPLISH
- Safe Routes to School: bta4bikes.org/at_work/saferoutes.php
- models for consumption monitoring, modelling consumption
- goals / milestones: city per capita reduction of consumption
- promoting green industries, taxing "dirty" industries
- small subsidies, grants programs
- information resources, "How-To's"
- codes to permit: grey water reuse, composting toilets, natural building structures
- safety net: reaching minorities, disadvantaged
HEALTH CARE
- alternative system
AGRICULTURE
- growing hemP
- food trees (can use space in a yard and mostly self-maintaining)
- mini-farm zoning
- Pesticide Free Parks (pesticide.org/portland/PFPhome.html)
- community involvement
LOCALIZATION AS A THEME
- TRANSPORTATION: bus, rail (safety)
- CYCLING: public perception as dangerous (better enforcement of dangerous motorists, change attitudes of police and motorists about cyclists right to use roadways, change public perception that cycling is more dangerous than being in an automobile)
- LABOR: cottage industries, recycling as an industry, food trees as an industry (planting, harvesting, managing)
SECURITY
- food & water: how to have the essentials w/out gas-fueled transportation
- PPO meeting notes: discussion of options to suggest to the task force, from the May 30th 2006 meeting.
The meeting was fast and furious... staggering loads of great ideas. A lot of these notes will be extremely brief and even cryptic... they are from the facilitator outline created as the meeting was in progress. Feel free to post with corrections or to elaborate.
***************************************************************
PUBLIC INPUT / AWARENESS (how to get the word out)
- get input at every Peak Oil meeting
- churches
- alternative media: News4Neighbors, Portland Indymedia, KBOO Community Calendar, various blogs / newswires
- tabling Pioneer Square
- Met. Alliance for Common Good
- guerrilla marketing: events with zany / wacky aspects more likely to be covered by papers (Oregonian, WWeek, Tribune, Mercury)
- seniors groups
- neighborhood associations
- icons: people identify with icons, how to create an identity for Peak Oil and represent the ideas as images (much like a cartoon lightning bold representing a power company)
- info with utility bills: PGE, NW Natural, CUB, Water Bureau
SUBCOMMITTEES
- Health Care
- Outreach
- Agriculture
HOUSING
- housing goals in graphic image
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- curriculum
- summer programs
- stories about the future
- arts & crafts program
DOING WHAT'S GOOD ANYWAY (has benefits regardless of energy scarcity)
- Community Farms / CSA's
- Johnson Creek restoration (benefits by providing flood control)
- visual images: young students (OR School of Arts / Crafts?)
- promoting local commerce / localization of resources: Think Local First (thinklocalportland.org)
- composting (flaws w/ Metro)
- incentives from City for sustainable practices that eventually save the city money: rainwater harvesting, lower-impact transportation choices... suggestions were incentives and rebates
- reducing auto trips: promote scooters / cycling
- multi-modal transit: multi-use trails
THINGS TO ACCOMPLISH
- Safe Routes to School: bta4bikes.org/at_work/saferoutes.php
- models for consumption monitoring, modelling consumption
- goals / milestones: city per capita reduction of consumption
- promoting green industries, taxing "dirty" industries
- small subsidies, grants programs
- information resources, "How-To's"
- codes to permit: grey water reuse, composting toilets, natural building structures
- safety net: reaching minorities, disadvantaged
HEALTH CARE
- alternative system
AGRICULTURE
- growing hemP
- food trees (can use space in a yard and mostly self-maintaining)
- mini-farm zoning
- Pesticide Free Parks (pesticide.org/portland/PFPhome.html)
- community involvement
LOCALIZATION AS A THEME
- TRANSPORTATION: bus, rail (safety)
- CYCLING: public perception as dangerous (better enforcement of dangerous motorists, change attitudes of police and motorists about cyclists right to use roadways, change public perception that cycling is more dangerous than being in an automobile)
- LABOR: cottage industries, recycling as an industry, food trees as an industry (planting, harvesting, managing)
SECURITY
- food & water: how to have the essentials w/out gas-fueled transportation
thanks
I did tweak the title a little but thank you for typing this up!
Implement Incremental Carbon Tax, Rationing Scheme
One piece of policy that should be implemented now that would help prepare the City for peak oil is a tax on the carbon content of fossil fuels. This could easily be implemented at the city level with the tax based on the CO2 emissions of electricity production, natural gas usage, and gasoline/diesel. It could be implemented at a very low rate with the revenues dedicated to funding investments and other preparations for peak oil and global warming. If and when the situation worsens, it could be increased to help reduce usage (i.e. demand destruction).
The City should also develop a motor fuel rationing scheme as part of an overall emergency preparedness plan so that rationing can be implemented quickly to avoid chaotic competition for scarce resources.
I have a detailed proposal for a Portland carbon tax and would be happy to help assist the task force on this topic.
Eli Lamb
May 30th?
Do you mean last night's meeting/potluck - May 31st?
meh
Don't be such a datist ;-)