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tom mohan

PLANYC 2030 - Transportation - 0 views

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energy project

shared by tom mohan on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • Seek to fund five projects that eliminate capacity constraints
  • tom mohan on 24 May 09
     
    Here is the website with NYC plan to go green by 2030. This is the transporation plan page
Katrina Johnston Schultz

Clean Cities Program to Fuel Clean Vehicles and Alternative Fueling Infrastructure - 0 views

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green infrastructure

shared by Katrina Johnston Schultz on 21 May 09 - Cached
  • Vice President Joe Biden today announced $300 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for state and local governments and transit authorities to expand fleets of clean vehicles and the fueling infrastructure necessary to support them.
  • The Clean Cities program offers $300 million to support at least 30 alternative fuels or advanced vehicles projects and requires a 50 percent participant cost share. Technologies eligible to be funded include a number of different light and heavy-duty vehicles, including hybrid, plug-in electric hybrid, hydraulic hybrid, electric, fuel cell, and compressed natural gas vehicles. In addition, projects can support refueling infrastructure for alternative fuels, including biofuels and natural gas. Other efforts eligible for funds include public awareness campaigns and training programs on alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles and infrastructure.
tom mohan

UNRISD: Publications | Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in th... - 0 views

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shared by tom mohan on 16 May 09 - Cached
  • Environmental racism refers to any policy, practice or directive that differentially affects or disadvantages (whether intended or unintended) individuals, groups or communities based on race or colour.
  • Environmental decision making often mirrors the power arrangements of the dominant society and its institutions. It disadvantages people of colour while providing advantages or privileges for corporations and individuals in the upper echelons of society. The question of who pays and who benefits from environmental and industrial policies is central to this analysis of environmental racism.
  • stratification of people
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  • nstitutionalizes unequal enforcement, trades human health for profit, places the burden of proof on the “victims” rather than the polluters, legitimizes human exposure to harmful chemicals, pesticides and hazardous substances, promotes “risky” technologies, exploits the vulnerability of economically and politically disenfranchised communities, subsidizes ecological destruction, creates an industry around risk assessment, delays cleanup actions and fails to develop pollution prevention and precaution processes as the overarching and dominant strategy
  • Environmental racism is also evident at the global level
  • Endangered people of colour in the industrialized countries of the North have much in common with populations in developing countries that are also threatened by industrial polluters
  • A disproportionately large share of the workers who suffer under substandard occupational and safety conditions are immigrants, women and people of colour.
  • tom mohan on 16 May 09
     
    A possible article to use for our project
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