On Saturday June 9th RAN activists headed to Sacramento to protest Pardee Homes’ newest developments at Poppylane and Cottonwood. The action was great – we spent most of the morning and afternoon talking to Pardee employees, potential home buyers and passers by about the environmental destruction and human rights abuses caused by Pardee’s parent company, Weyerhaeuser.
This summary comes from the Old Growth campaign’s new intern, Kevin:
San Francisco RAN activists traveled to Sacramento last Saturday to protest Weyerhaeuser’s clear-cut logging practices in the Grassy Narrows community. The logging giant’s wholly owned subsidiary Pardee Homes bore the brunt of bad publicity as its newest housing development was linked to human rights violations and environmental destruction. Interest by prospective new home buyers ran high as protesters alerted them to the stolen wood that Pardee homes are built with. Pardee employees attempted to counter the negative attention with an appeasement angle, offering cold water and snacks to the activists. It will take more than bottled water and trail mix to make RAN back down on this issue however. Weyerhaeuser and its home building subsidiaries will continue to find themselves a target until they stop logging endangered forestland and ruining the lives of the indigenous people who depend on them.
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We need to appreciate basics and not want houses so big the owner cannot clean them. We have to appreciate we are here for a short time with the following generation left to clean up our mess. The earth is a gift, one we should be schooled to appreciate, its trees, dirt, ocean, sky, not become consumers. We need so little to live well.
I just want to comment on all the bullshit that you guys are doing, it is a waste of time and money.You guys say that Pardee Homes is destroying the environement etc.. But what about when you rent RV’s and pump gas to go visit all these sites that Pardee Homes build ,you guys are adding to the pollution of the air dumb asses. Get youre shit together and spend time with youre kids instead of trying to get publicity.Please recycle
Hello,
I recently bought a home in the Moorpark Highlands, in Cherry Hill about a year
and a half. I am so dissapointed at Pardee’s unprofessional treatment of our
community. I am have been so angry at Pardee for their lack of concern and
care, I do not know where to start because there are so many issues on the
table. Do you know what is going on in your department in Ventura in regards to
the Moorpark Highland project. Well for one thing I was told about the mello
roo’s and was not told about an ongoing extra tax for the landscape
maintainence, this is ana insult to our community, shy are we being double
taxed? …2nd. where is our promised park? …it has been two years or
longer?…3rd. where is our tot lot- that was promised? …4th. where is our
school…I hear now we paid for a mello roo tax for a school and now there won’t
be one for 10 to 15 years, all the while we paid a steep mello roo tax. And all
Pardee can say is its the city not us!…shame on Pardee for rolling over and
finding the easy excuse. I am a reeal estate agent here in Moorpark, and I have
been doing my best to tell customers how I feel about Pardee builders, and the
Moorpark Highland…STAY AWAY!!
Damian
For Pardee, the whole ‘sustainable developer/eco-friendly builder’ ideal is a true marketing gimmick. They are just another titan in the market for closings, revenue and massive ‘master-plan’ projects they fight environmentalists into approval.
i love the speech from patricia at the top telling us not to be consumers from safely behind her computer. in all actuality she probably didn’t buy it, mother earth probably gave it to her so she could spread the word on Her behalf.
jose’s got the right idea, but don’t recycle, except for aluminum. it costs us way to much for way too little benefit. instead just watch how much crap you use in the first place.
damian, you are a fool. just like so many you expect so much and don’t want to be financially responsible for any of it. don’t bitch about landscape taxes if your yard is being kept up for you. the money has to come from somewhere. and while you’re at it, learn to communicate in one of the languages the world has agreed upon. question marks (?) go at the end of questions, question marks, periods and commas are not interchangeable, and “…” is not the proper, or even the casual way to enter items in a list. by the way, no real estate or development company has the authority to dictate where and when a school will be built. that is the state’s job. it isn’t an easy answer, it is the only answer. in answer to your school tax question, sometimes taxes have to be paid in order to raise funding for the things we want. i hope you come back to read this some day, because you are an idiot. and, yes, i’m aware that i never capitalize the beginnings of my sentences or names.
all of us live on land that was, at one point, undeveloped. deciding now that companies should stop building homes for a continually growing populous is ridiculous. pretending to boycott a company for supposed human rights violations, might make you feel good on the inside, but it is hypocritical considering there are probably people in your everyday life that you treat like shit: it might be the dumb-shit kid that makes your coffee, or the old lady in front of you with her blinker on going 10 mph under the speed limit. the fact is, we’re all assholes (yes, i acknowledge myself in this, too), from joe nobody to the jack off at the top of the corporate ladder. don’t think stopping a company from helping to solve housing issues will make you a better person.
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