Sustainable Salmon Arm

Sustainable means forever

This is NOT a smart growth website, because "smart growth" is an oxymoron. This is NOT the CASSSA website, for the same reason. People truly interested in sustainability, population control, and quality of life are invited to join.

A few ideas to consider:

There are liars, damned liars, and economists.

When it comes to humans damaging the environment, it never pains but it roars.

There are those who think that this planet exists for their own personal pleasure and profit, and then there are those who think.

Planning for retirement? Rather than worry about having enough money, you'd be better to worry about having much of a livable planet left at that time.
 

Useful Links

Albert A. Bartlett is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has long been an outspoken critic of population growth. His latest work, urging the United States to begin reducing population immediately, is here.

Parts one and two of this article, from Canadian soil scientist Peter Salonius, clearly show how our current food production practices are unsustainable.

Here is an excellent article from Brishen Hoff debunking the myths surrounding population growth and its economic impact.

Blog Posts

How politicians and developers outfox ordinary citizens.

Posted by Rick Shea on May 29th, 2008 at 7:34am — No Comments (Add)

Consider time before oil runs out

Posted by Rick Shea on May 29th, 2008 at 7:23am — No Comments (Add)

A real reason to live in Salmon Arm

Posted by Rick Shea on May 29th, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments (Add)

Consumerism adding to troubles

Posted by Rick Shea on May 12th, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments (Add)

Involvement the only safeguard

Posted by Rick Shea on March 17th, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Misguided energy

Posted by Rick Shea on February 22nd, 2008 at 8:30am — 2 Comments (Add)

How many can we cram in?

Posted by Rick Shea on February 9th, 2008 at 11:02pm — No Comments (Add)

This city is going to the dogs

Posted by Rick Shea on February 9th, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Apparently we haven't yet made much progress with the idea of "progress"

Posted by Rick Shea on February 7th, 2008 at 7:49pm — No Comments (Add)

Towers destructive on many fronts

Posted by Rick Shea on February 7th, 2008 at 1:20pm — No Comments (Add)

 
 

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