Archive for March, 2010
It's time we all started taking our turn
This week my good friend Dave sent me this amazing and hilarious video about a new road sign. In the video the trade-off between safety and efficiency (carbon footprint) is discussed. Although it seems a little far fetched, I’m sure we’ll see something like it in the future.
Posted: March 13th, 2010 under Driver Safety, environment, fuel efficiency, road.
Tags: driving, environment, fuel efficiency, highway, Safety, traffic
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Green Beer: Eco-Friendly meets St Paddy's Day
On March 17th Blue Mountain Resort is hosting it’s Keep Winter Cool Campaign. Keep Winter Cool aims to raise awareness about the potential effects of climate change and encourage skiers and snowboarders to start taking steps to reduce their own environmental impact. I’ll be there with the My Sustainable Canada team hopefully enjoying another epic [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Climate Change, environment, sustainability.
Tags: Climate Change, environment, sustainability
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How Climate will Change Transportation: Part 2
To continue from the other day, our warming climate will drastically change how we design highway infrastructure. Cindy Burbank then took over the presentation. Her presentation highlighted 5 main topics Climate change science, sources and trends The importance of climate change to the state DOTs Strategies to reduce GHG emissions from transportation Climate adaptation for [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under environment, highway, infrastructure, sustainability.
Tags: driving, environment, highways, infrastructure, sustainability, Transportation
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How Climate will Change Transportation: Part 1
Last week I sat in on a webinar jointly hosted by AASHTO/FHWA/FTA on climate change and transportation; Climate Change 101: An Overview of Climate Change for State DOTS – An overview of climate change science, linkages to energy security, greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction strategies for Surface Transportation and risk-based adaptation to climate change. This presentation [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2010 under environment, infrastructure, Sustainable Infrastructure.
Tags: environment, highway, Sustainable Infrastructure, Transportation
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