[sustran] Earth Car Free Day/Sustainable Development Conferences sysnergies

[ecopl at n.adsl]

Dear Colleagues,

April 19th, only 99 days from today, is the date for Earth Car Free Day, and
if you would like to see the state of play in preparations for it, we invite
you to visit us at www.carfreeday.com.  As you will note, it's a wide open
project and there is a huge amount of room for people and groups to try and
demonstrate ideas and concepts about sustainable transportation and more
sustainable lives.

But the reason for this note today is to ask if any of you might know about
sustainable transport conferences of any sort that might be taking place on
or close to that date.  We are hoping to see if we can create some
interesting synergies.  We are already in contact with the Institute for
Transportation and Development Policy, who are taking a lead role in the
United Nations meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development that
week, and they are in the process of organizing a high visibility public
bike ride in support of the concept.  But what about other places?  And in
the Third World?

Finally, let me mention that our friends in Bogotá are hard at work in
laying the base for their second car-free day, which is going to take place
on Thursday, the 1st of February.  There are several interesting wrinkles on
that which we should like to share with you.  The first is that it is also
serving as a test bed for a number of the concepts that we plan to push
further in Earth Car Free Day.  The second is that the new mayor of Bogotá,
Antanas Mockus, is inviting the mayors of all the Latin American capitals to
come to Bogotá and observe their day.  We think this is a terrific
initiative and look forward to following it closely and learning from it.
To follow it, we propose that you keep an eye on the Earth Car Free Day
site.

Kind thanks for your ideas and suggestions on all this.

With all good wishes,

Eric Britton

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