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This Week's Items of Interest
April 6, 2016
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California's Bike & Pedestrian Plan
The development of Caltrans' first California Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan (CSBPP) is currently underway. The CSBPP will be a visionary and comprehensive policy plan to promote a multi-modal transportation system that supports active modes of transportation and creates a framework to increase safe bicycling and walking. To read more about this effort and also to take a brief online survey click
here
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Bike Month Registration is Open!
Cue the bike bells, May is Bike Month registration is now open! Ding ding. It's time to dust off your bikes, pump up your tires and join your neighbors and co-workers in bicycling for work, school, shopping, recreation or training this May during the Sacramento region's 12th Annual May is Bike Month Campaign.
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Event:
Greening The Golden State
The Green California Summit provides a forum where innovations in policy, technology and practice can be showcased and shared. For those who are responsible for creating and managing programs for state and local government and educational institutions, it provides an annual opportunity to find out what's new and what is working. For companies it offers a chance to build relationships with decision makers from the nation's largest marketplace for green products and services.
Keynote Speaker: Juliet Christian-Smith, PhD, Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Planet - Innovation
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Director Malcolm Dougherty has signed a letter of intent with the Province of Noord-Holland (Netherlands) Vice Governor Elisabeth Post, MMC to look at sustainable options for capturing solar energy in transportation infrastructure.
(3.30.16)
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Session Proposal Deadline April 15!
The two-day event will be the premiere convening for a multi-disciplinary group to discuss, debate and consider how we can most effectively respond to the impacts of climate change.
Learn More
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Planet - Innovation - GHG Reduction
Safeguarding California
On March 8, 2016 The California Natural Resources Agency Released a Plan to Guide the State's Climate Change Adaptation Necessary Actions Described for Transportation, Housing, Energy, and Other Sectors.
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Prosperity - Economic Prosperity
This Program Will Make Cutting Carbon Emissions Lucrative For Farmers
When Mark Isbell, a third-generation rice farmer in central Arkansas, tallies up his profits for this year, he'll count a few extra dollars from a unique source: the greenhouse gases that his 3,200-acre farm didn't emit. Isbell is part of a small group of farmers participating in a new project piloted by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), in conjunction with the USDA, and approved by the American Carbon Registry.
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3.30.2016)
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People- Planet & Prosperity
Sustainable Growth Succeeds in a Rural California City
You don't need a wind turbine to run a vegetable-processing plant. Or a solar panel array to make wine. But you will find both in
Gonzales
, California, a town that makes a point of promoting sustainable growth in its economic development effort. Situated in the heart of California's Salinas Valley agricultural region, Gonzales is proving that even a small city -
Read More
(3.18.16)
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Planet - Green Infrastructure - Innovation
Singapore aims to become the world's first smart city-state
From the glass-walled conference room overlooking a minimalist two-story office just across the street from Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus Rift, the space would fit any number of well-heeled startups in San Francisco.
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Prosperity
- Automation - Innovation
The City That Runs Itself: Mcity and the Future of Automated Transportation
Far away from the hills and hot weather of Silicon Valley, where
Google has made headlines with their driverless car testing, the University of Michigan is helping bring the national spotlight on the race to build driverless cars to the state.
On the University's North Campus there's a 32-acre urban environment with freeways, dirt roads, road signs and highway tunnels - known as "Mcity.
(3.30.16)
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