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News clippings related to transit, mobility and quality of life
MoveNews #93 for the week of March 21, 2010
MoveSD News
Attend MoveSD Mixer this Wednesday!
Please attend our first Move San Diego Mixer of 2010!
Wednesday, March 24th, from 5:00-8:00pm
Altitude Sky Lounge (on top of Marriott Gaslamp Hotel)
660 K Street, San Diego 92101
RSVP: ELowe@movesandiego.org
Our Mixer, open to members and friends, will highlight some of our members innovative and exciting ideas for smart growth in the region. This is a great opportunity to enjoy sweeping views of Downtown and San Diego Bay at sunset, meet other Move San Diego supporters, and help build a strong voice for smart growth, transit options in San Diego. Please bring friends, family and co-workers. Join us for hosted appetizers and no-host $5 cocktail specials. There is no fee to attend but the suggested donation is $10.00 at the door.
Take the Orange Trolley Line to the Gaslamp Quarter Trolley Station (one block away) or use the Petco parking garage across the street from the Marriott Gaslamp Hotel.
Regional
Leaders move toward setting vehicle emissions limits
North County Times, March 12, 2010
Local planners met with civic leaders Friday to map out their strategy for reducing car and truck emissions in order to meet the goals of Senate Bill 375, a legislative bombshell that requires all urban regions in the state to cut emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020.
Planners told elected representatives from San Diego County, and from each of its 17 cities, that they plan to create "target" levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that would represent about a 10 percent cut over the next decade.
San Diego County is the first urban county in the state to have to deal with the new global warming mandate because it is the first to have to update its "regional transportation plan" a document that governs how roads are funded in the region.
National
Road Transportation Is the Greatest Culprit in Global Warming
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, February 18, 2010
A new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has identified on-road transportation as the most significant overall source contributing to global warming. Power generation, while having the greatest total impact, also includes a large number of compounds that increase cloud reflectivity and provide other effects to offset some of the warming they are responsible for. The study looks at the range of gases and aerosols that are released by each of 13 sectors of the economy, and finds that on-road transportation has the greatest overall effect on global warming. The paper was published online on Feb. 3 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Federal Climate Service Created
New York Times, February 9, 2010
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is creating a new climate change office, to be known as the NOAA Climate Service, to gather and provide data to governments, industry and academia as part of a broad federal effort to prepare for long-term changes to the planet. The agency has also created a Web site, www.climate.gov, to make it easier for people to find government climate change data and analysis. Jane Lubchenco, administrator of NOAA, said that as the realities of climate change become more obvious to more people, farmers, businesses, government agencies and public health officials are going to be turning to us for credible, useful and relevant information.
Shifting trips from private cars to BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lowers regional vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and reduces total fuel consumption.
Source: Center for Urban Transportation Research
MoveNews #93 was edited by Carolyn Chase and published by Move San Diego, Inc. as a service to our members. You may subscribe, unsubscribe, or send article suggestions by sending an email request to: info@movesandiego.org
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