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This Week's Items of Interest
October 7, 2015
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People - Livability - Safety
SACRAMENTO - Caltrans' "Be Work Zone Alert" campaign has received national recognition as a winner of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Award.
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People - Mode - Car Free Day
While people around the world are become more environmentally conscious, Paris is truly taking eco-friendly matters into its own hands. The City of Romance
recently held its first-ever "day without cars" on September 27th
as part of an effort to help clean up the city's air quality. During this day, the 30% of the city's roads were off-limits to vehicles. Paris managed to cut down pollution-and noise-levels significantly. According to The Guardian, these car-free parts of Paris registered 40% less nitrogen dioxide, the chemical composition that produces smog. On Avenue des Champs-Élysées-the city's busiest and most used street- alone, nitrogen dioxide levels were cut by 30%.
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People - Mode - Transit
BART, Muni stations get their report cards in new study on transit (10.6.2015)
The Bay Area's two main transit systems, Muni and BART, have been graded by a new report studying transportation - and both ranked surprisingly high.
The
report prepared for public policy nonprofit Next 10 by the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law, gave BART an overall B- grade, while Muni got a solid B.
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People - Mode - Air
Teamwork, innovation and industry unity for a sustainable future
(10.5.2015)
GENEVA - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) co-signed an open letter calling on governments to act to help the industry reduce its carbon footprint. The letter was organized by the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG), which brings together all the major players in the aviation sector (airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers, and air navigation service providers) with the aim of responsibly dealing with industry issues such as managing aviation's climate change impact.
In the letter, signed at the ATAG Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva, the aviation industry reaffirmed its commitment to its three environment goals:
- 1.5% fuel efficiency improvement per year to 2020
- Stabilizing net carbon emissions through carbon-neutral growth from 2020
- Halving net carbon emissions by 2050 compared to 2005.
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People - Mode - Research Study
A Longitudinal Analysis of Cars, Transit, and Employment Outcomes (9.30.2015)
Access to cars and transit can influence individuals' ability to reach opportunities such as jobs, health care, and other important activities. While access to cars and public transit varies considerably across time, space, and across populations, most research portrays car access as a snapshot in time; some people have a car and others do not. But does this snapshot approach mask variation in car ownership over time? And how does access to particular types of transportation resources influence individuals' economic outcomes?
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People - Mode - Future Transportation Video
(10.5.2015)
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People, Planet, Prosperity - Webinar
The Vital Role of Operations and Maintenance in Supporting and Enhancing Sustainability
(10.15.2015)
TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET that will highlight the contribution of transportation to a sustainable society, the importance of maintenance and operations in transportation, and ways that maintenance and operations may support a sustainable transportation program. Presenters will review a goal-oriented, performance-based approach toward sustainability.
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Planet - Energy App
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smart home energy automator OhmConnect, announced today its breakthrough method for enabling smart home devices, such as wifi thermostats, smart plugs, home automation systems, and electric vehicle chargers to generate recurring revenue streams by intelligently controlling devices' charging and operating schedules. Specifically, wifi thermostat owners can directly recoup their device's cost within one to three years using OhmConnect. -
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Planet - Carbon Footprint - Challenge
University of California launches systemwide competition to make UC locations carbon neutral by 2025.
(10.6.2015)
Each week during the 10-week competition, the Cool Campus Challenge will highlight a theme related to sustainability, including such areas as transportation, lighting and food waste. To earn points for their locations, participants will make pledges and take actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions directly or raise awareness about climate change, and then record their actions on the challenge website.
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Planet - Air Quality - GHG Dashboard
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Prosperity - Energy - Battery
Discovery about new battery overturns decades of false assumptions
(10.6.2015)
New findings at Oregon State University have overturned a scientific dogma that stood for decades, by showing that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery - a discovery that could pose a challenge and sustainable alternative to the widely-used lithium-ion battery.
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Prosperity- Energy - Solar Quiz
Think you know PV from CSP? Put your brainpower to the test with our solar energy quiz!
(6.18.2015)
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