"Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations."              
                  Sigmund Jahn
             German Cosmonaut
This Week's Items of Interest
November 4, 2015
People- Mode- Bike and Ped

Caltrans Launches Statewide Bike and Ped Plan   (10.29.2015)

Caltrans was very active at the summit, with various Caltrans employees giving presentations on bicycle safety goals within the Strategic Highway Safety Plan, new sustainability goals for the department, and the Active Transportation Program.
And at a rousing lunchtime speech on the last day of the summit, Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty announced the launch of the first statewide bicycle and pedestrian master plan.

People - Health and Transportation

The September-October 2015 edition of the TR News explores the interrelationships of public health and transportation. Articles cover health impact assessments and analyses, incorporating health into transportation planning and decision making, modeling the risk of infectious disease spread through the transportation system, transportation lessons learned from the Ebola epidemic, measuring the health impacts of walking and bicycling, innovative practices and research to assess active transportation and health, health-related findings from TRB-managed research projects, and more.
Prosperity - Business

Report: Millennials Key Drivers of Small Business Sustainability (11.03.2015)

Millennials will lead the way for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in future conversations and efforts around conservation, energy efficiency and environmental stewardship, according to a new survey by Cox Enterprises.
The second annual  Cox Conserves Sustainability Survey found that Millennials have a huge appetite for sustainability and will drive adoption of these practices. 
People - Mode - Health

New Online Tool Promotes Health Through Transportation   
(11.03.2015)
 
This tool provides a single site for transportation decision-makers, health officials, and the public to understand how state and local transportation options and performance affect health outcomes. 
People - Mode - Innovation  

People - Sustainability - Smart App
Sustainability Education

Would you like to find out more about sustainability and caring for the environment? Learn playing with IBERDROLA and take up the challenge!
Planet - Seminar   (11/06/2015)

Time: November 06, 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m
Location: 1605 Tilia Street, Room 1103, West Village
Speaker: Alberto Ayala, Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Planet - Carbon Reduction
Unique business initiative could deliver two-thirds of carbon reductions needed for UN climate change goal   (11.03.2015)

Today, the President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD) Peter Bakker launches an  analysisby PwC showing that the ambitions of WBCSD's Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative (LCTPi) could deliver 65% of the carbon emission reductions needed to keep the rise in global temperatures to under 2°C.
Planet - Carbon Quiz

Earth has many processes that regulate carbon, atmospheric carbon dioxide and its role in the carbon cycle and climate. How much do you know?
Planet - Electrical Vehicles

INFOGRAPHIC: The most popular (and expensive) electric cars around the world  (11.02.2015)

The  electric vehicle  market is booming around the world. While  Teslas  get the most attention at Inhabitat, they're far off from being the number one global best-seller.  Carleasingmadesimple.com  created a nifty infographic that examines the most popular electric cars around the world, the countries where those forward-thinking vehicles are most popular, and some interesting trivia along the way, including the prices of the most expensive electric cars on the market (hint: the most expensive car is a Rolls Royce).
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Prosperity- Biofuel


USDA announces plan to nearly double the number of biofuel pumps across the country with $100 million in grants to match state-level and private funding.US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said this week that the federal and state governments have gotten their hands on about $210 million to almost double the number of ethanol pumps throughout the country.
Prosperity - Sustainability - Business

How To Show Corporate Leadership In Sustainability  
 
(11.03.2015)

A new Ceres report published last week, " View from the Top: How Corporate Boards Can Engage on Sustainability Performance, " is therefore most timely and welcome. In it, insights from dozens of interviews with senior corporate leaders and corporate governance experts can all be boiled down into two clear guidelines. Firstly, sustainability needs to be integrated into board governance systems and processes. Secondly and crucially, sustainability needs to be integrated into board actions.
Prosperity - Infrastructure  (10.31.2015)

Self-healing concrete trial underway

The UK's first major trial of self-healing concrete is underway in Wales. It is being led by a team of researchers from Cardiff University, who are testing ways of automatically repairing concrete without human intervention.
The project, entitled 'Materials for Life (M4L), is piloting three separate concrete-healing technologies for the first time in real-world settings, with a view to incorporating them into a single system that could be used to automatically repair concrete in the built environment.
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