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Adriana Trujillo

Paris Will Stop All Traffic, Literally, For One Day in September - ForbesLife - 0 views

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    On September 27, 2015, Paris will go car-free for the first time in the city's history to raise consciousness of its pollution problem and encourage sustainable transportation. City officials worked with the environmental nonprofit Paris Sans Voiture to announce "A Day Without Car," which will turn the French capital into a "pedestrian and bicycle paradise."
Adriana Trujillo

Neste Oil Produces Fuel from Recycled Lubricants · Environmental Management &... - 0 views

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    Neste Oil has produced its first batch of traffic fuel from recycled lubricants, the petroleum products and biofuel company says.
Adriana Trujillo

How Biking Improves Employee Productivity - 0 views

  • Exercising before work raises an employee’s productivity by an average of 15 percent.
  • we should consider the difference between an expense and an investment
  • that seven of the top ten causes of death are related to transportation.
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  • a UK Traffic Advisory Unit found that organizations that implemented cycling strategies received a return of between $1.33 and $6.50 for every $1 spent in cycle promotion, resulting from increased productivity.
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    Exercising before work raises an employee's productivity by an average of 15 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

New Disney Facility in Santa Clarita Faces Hurdles - The Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

  • removal of 158 oak trees
  • Planning and the Environment
  • We’re considering our options.”
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  • The Ranch, which will take up 58 acres of Golden Oak Ranch
  • an 890-acre piece of land owned by Disney that already hosts about 300 days of production each year.
  • six soundstage buildings
  • 2,854 people and contribute $533 million in annual economic activity throughout Los Angeles County.
  • Full build-out, though, could take years, even after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project during a vote Tuesday. Still ahead are meetings with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • SCOPE and other environmental groups have been addressed
  • plant 1,600 new oak trees in the area, and argues that 637 acres of Golden Oak Ranch will remain a natural backdrop area. Disney also touted several “green design features” for reducing energy consumption, traffic and storm-water runoff.
  • Plambeck, though, isn't satisfied,
  • "to a voluntary project condition that places a conservation easement over the remaining undeveloped portions of the Golden Oak Ranch as a condition precedent to any permit issuance."
  • not develop 637 acres,
  • but if that's the case, why won't they put it into a conservation easement to assure everybody of their intentions?"
  • The Sierra Club, for example, has taken a neutral position on the
  • SCOPE
  • Santa Clarita Organization
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    A local environmental group slams the plan for the just-approved 58-acre facility, which will eventually employ 2,800 people but faces months of hearings before breaking ground
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