[sustran] Re: 2006 World Technology Environment Awards - Join us inseconding nominations of Jan Gehl and Greenwheels

Walter Hook whook at itdp.org
Tue May 23 22:30:41 JST 2006


We will support the jan gehl nomination.  Richly deserved. 

 

w. 

 

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Subject: [sustran] 2006 World Technology Environment Awards - Join us
inseconding nominations of Jan Gehl and Greenwheels

 

Dear Friends,

 

This year, after a number of emails and calls to discuss many great ideas,
we are finally nominating two outstanding innovators for the 2006 World
Technology Environment Awards, one an individual pioneer and one group
showing the way.  Our group nominees this year are the redoubtable Dane Jan
Geld and the Greenwheels carsharing organization in the Netherlands (the
fastest growing such group in the world).

 

This is as many of you will recall a group effort each year, and you are as
always invited cordially to anticipate and make sure that our nominees
receive the international recognition that they so richly deserve. The path
to do this is short and simple: all you have to do is click to the New
Mobility Agenda at www.newmobility.org <http://www.newmobility.org/>  and
from there click 2006 Awards on the top menu. At that point you will see the
first draft of our nominations, together with everything you need to quickly
join us in this fine group effort.

 

I would remind you that we have a 100% hit ratio for our nominations over
the last three years, the reason being not only the exceptional
contributions of people and teams like: Hans Monderman for his reducing one
technology (the motor car) to it rightful (rather modest) pace in
residential streets; and the Seoul :Restoration Technology" car control
project in their city;  in 2004 Ken Livingstone for leading Congestion
Charging project  in London, and the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable
Cities program; and back in 2003 a trio of outstanding carsharing project
each trying to push the envelope in terms of the emerging city/car agenda:
Caisse Commune in Paris, City Car Club in Helsinki, and Statoil Bilpool in
Stockholm - but also the way that we have got behind them to make sure that
the judges and many others as well understand the importance of their
contributions.

 

Last year we have more than fifty of our international colleagues join us in
the nominations, and this year we hope to do at least as well. It is
important to get the message out, and to do it right require that we all
join in.

 

We need to go for every chance we run across. Only in that way will we make
the progress that is so badly needed.

 

My sincere thanks for joining us to support Jan and the Greenwheels teams.
And indeed all our work.

 

Eric Britton

 

 

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