[sustran] Our group nominations for the 2006 World Technology Environment Award

[Eric Britton (Paris)]

Dear Fair Transport Friends (hmm?),

 

Every year, as a past winner of the World Technology Environment Award
(Class of 2002), I and the other past nominees for this prestigious
international prize are kindly invited to nominate our candidates for
this year's award.  And as over the last three years, I would once again
like to invite you to share your thoughts and eventual nominations with
us for this year's nominations.  As you know here at The Commons we do
collective intelligence. ;-)

 

Over the last couple of years we have had a number of real successes
with our cooperative peer award process and backing, and have thus
managed to draw what we regard as a useful spotlight on the work of
people likes Hans Monderman and his wonderful street projects, Ken
Livingstone and his congestion charging project; the leaders of the
carsharing start-ups in Paris, Helsinki and Stockholm; Boris Berenfeld
for his innovative work involving young people, education and direct
environmental actions and the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable
Cities for its continuing contributions in the developing world; and
Mayor Lee Myung-Bak and the City of Seoul for their Regeneration
Technology project. 

 

There is one slight wrinkle in this award process that may not be
immediately clear to those of us who are accustomed to thinking in terms
of sustainable transport per se, and that is that the awards somehow
have to acknowledge technological components. In the case of things like
road pricing, carsharing and internet based peer support programs, that
is pretty evident. But last year we made a major stretch on this in
nominating Hans Monderman for his work and, as you may recall, made
(stretched?) the point that his entire approach was based on a form of
'technology minimization'. A stretch maybe, but it worked.

 

That's the past, but now the future. Who is it going to be this year? 

 

May I suggest that in a first instance you write me privately on this at
eric.britton at ecoplan.org - with copies to fekbritton at gmail.com sine I am
having terrible spam problems - and then later as appropriate I can
efficiently share with the others. Stay tuned.

 

FairTransport???

 

With all good wishes,

 

Eric Britton

 

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