The Sustainable Future section publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Long View. For information about publishing in The Long View, please see the newsletter editorial staff information.
Below is a list of our recent newsletters:
Spring 2012 – The Long View – No. 9
Individual Articles:
- How Green is Your Bar? Results of a 50-State Survey by Jennifer Berg
- Green with Envy? Your Bar Should Be by Rod Wegener
- Oregon’s New Reach Code: Mainstreaming and Streamlining Energy Efficiency by Aeron Teverbaugh
- Ice Age Lessons for Future Climate Change by Andreas Schmittner
- Psychology as if the Whole World Mattered by Thomas Joseph Doherty
Consider This . . . “First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.” ~Lester Brown
Winter 2011 – The Long View – No. 8
Individual Articles:
- Sustainability and the Discount Rate: An Economist’s Perspective by James Randall Pozdena, PhD
- Green Pro Bono – Helping Provide Solutions to Climate Change by Nancy Reiner
- Report on Sustainable Future Section Annual Meeting by Robin B. Seifried
- Oregon’s New Carbon Footprint of Consumption by David Allaway
- The Schwabe “Cups-To-Go” by Carmen Calzacorta
- James M. Kennedy Receives OSB President’s Sustainability Award
- Investing With Impact: Generating Strong Financial, Environmental, and Social Returns by Nathan Kadish
- Announcements: Partners in Sustainability Program
Consider This . . . “We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin ” ~Leif Johansson
Fall 2011 - The Long View – No. 7
Individual Articles:
- The Future of Perpetuity: Conservation Easement Concerns in the 21st Century by James L. Olmsted
- Conservation Easements: An Overview by Nancy Duhnkrack
- Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Awarded for Sustainable Law Office Leadership
- Oregon’s Public Trust Doctrine in the 21st Century: Public Rights in Waters, Wildlife, and Beaches by Michael C. Blumm & Erika A. Doot
- Trickle Down Sustainability at the Oregon State Bar Center by Rod Wegener
- Mission and Work of the Deschutes Land Trust by Brad Nye
Consider This . . . “As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” ~Steve Jobs
Summer 2011 – The Long View – No. 6
Individual Articles
- The Ethical Dimensions of Sustainability by Reed Elizabeth Loder
- Ecosystem Services and Markets by Sara Vickerman
- Introducing Net Zero Building by Clark Brockman
- Moving Green Building Forward: Carrots or Sticks? by Marian Thomas and Chris Forney
- Nominations due July 15 for OSB Sustainable Future Section Sustainable Law Office Leadership Awards
Consider This . . . “Almost anything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” ~M.K. Gandhi
Spring 2011 – The Long View – No. 5
Individual Articles
- The impact of population, affluence and technology on the biotic world by Dick Roy
- Going Paperless in a large firm by Lori Hughes
- Double-sided filings in Oregon Circuit Courts by Amie Jamieson
- Paperless practices at the Office of Public Defense Services by Kathryn Aylward
- Going paperless at a small firm by Janis Alexander
- Opinion: 2011: The Year of Seven Billion by Marilyn Hempel
- Opinion: Breathing Room Economics by Robert Dietz
- Editor’s Notes on opinion pieces
- Announcements
Consider This . . . “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” ~Albert Einstein
Winter 2010 – The long View – No. 4
Individual Articles
- Climate Change Related D&O Liability – the Coming Flood?
- The Precautionary Principle
- Sustainable Future Section Annual Business
- Robin Morris Collin: Leader in Sustainability
- Miller Honored with Sustainable Leadership Award
- Is the Precautionary Principle Sustainable?
- The Precautionary Principle: Taking Precautions Now to Protect the Future
Consider This . . . “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~Isaac Asimov
Fall 2010 – The Long View – No. 3
Individual Articles
- Ecosystem Services – A Framework for Thinking about Sustainability
- The Sustainable Law Office
- Max Miller and Robin Morris Collin receive the Section’s Sustainable Leadership Awards
- Oregon State Bar Sustainability Practices
- Dick Roy First Recipient of OSB President’s Sustainability Award
- Legislative Initiatives Encourage Corporate Social Responsibility
- Ater Wynne Receives Sustainable Law Office Leadership award
- Introducing Sustainability to Environmental Policy and Strategies for Development
Consider This . . . “Even though the relationship between economic growth, wellbeing and human happiness is tricky territory, it is territory that should no longer be avoid, if richer no longer means better, or happier..” ~UK Sustainable Development Commision (2003)
Summer 2010 – The Long View – No. 2
Individual Articles
- Law of Science and Sustainability: A Framework for Dialog
- The Law Office Sustainability Policy
- Creating a Law Firm Sustainability Practice
- Signaling Sustainability Through Eco-Certifications
- Oregon Certified Sustainable Wine
Consider This . . . “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” ~Charles Darwin
Spring 2010 – The Long View – No. 1
Individual Articles:
- Welcome from the Executive Committee
- Sustainability and the Oregon Legal Profession
- Oregon State Bar: Carbon Report
- Making Oregon the Delaware of Green Business
- Sustainability and Environmental Justice
- Biomimicry – Life’s Principles: Applying the Laws of Nature
Consider This . . . “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” ~John Cage
Editor’s Note:
Thank you for reading The Long View. Your feedback and suggestions on content are welcome.
Michelle Slater
Michelle Slater Law LLC
Editor
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