Lake Oswego Residents Look Into the Future

It's called The Lake Oswego Story Project.

The Lake Oswego Sustainability Network and the Lake Oswego Library asked residents to imagine to look to the future in an effort to better the present.

Participants imagined being in the year 2050 and looking back on thins that could have been done to prevent climate change from becoming worse.

Nearly 200 people responded and the results have been posted.

"Laws have banned transportation by car if the destination is less than five miles and have also banned cars using fossil fuels, leaving only solar and wind powered cars on the highways," wrote Andrew Wheat in his essay, A Changed Earth.

"A cast of red tail hawks rides on the wind. They give me pleasure, a reminder of continuity, grace, freedom and will. Blossoms blow from the heirloom orange trees that border the yard. I hand planted them as part of the Great Garden Experiment 2030," writes Jackie Manz in her story, Window 2050..

"Nothing makes living in Lake Oswego better today than the sense of community that came out of Oswegoeans working together to meet the challenges of addressing climate change and for building a sustainable city – a city that will provide a healthy, connected and caring community for generations to come," writes Mary Ratcliff in her essay, A Spring Walk in Lake Oswego.