[sustran] Re: Jan Gehl, Greenwheels named as finalists for this year'sWorld Technology Awards for Environment

[Sujit Patwardhan]

16 October 2006


Eric,
This is great news. I'm very happy as I can't think of anyone more deserving
than Jan Gehl for this honour.
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Sujit




On 10/16/06, Eric Britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:
>
>  Dear Friends,
>
>
>
> This is to share with you the good news that both Jan Gehl and the
> Greenwheels team have been named as finalists in this year's World
> Technology Award for Environment, for which the formal award ceremony is to
> take place in San Francisco on 2-3 Novemenber. You can see all about it at
>
>
> http://wtn.net/2006/summit/shortlisted.html.
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>
>
> Jan Gehl has also been named a Fellow of the World Technology Network,
> while Greenwheels has been named a WTN Corporate member. This last is I
> think a tribute that is to be born in mind by those of us who care about the
> New Mobility Agenda and better and softer (and cheaper) ways of getting
> around in our daily lives, indicating as it does that Greenwheels and with
> it the carsharing movement more generally are now seen by many as socially
> and environmentally useful services which nonetheless need to be organized
> and run on sound business principles. That is not the only way to make
> carsharing work as we are seeing at World Carshare, but it is certainly one
> of the models which are fast reshaping the industry, and with it carsharing
> contributions to sustainable mobility and sustainable cities and lives.
>
>
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> And to give you an idea of the company that Jan now enters as a Fellow,
> here is a selection of the close to one thousand world innovators who have
> been named to this honor: Manuell Castells, Anil Gupta, Jaime Lerner, Hans
> Monderman, Tim Berners-Lee, Amory Lovins, Ezio Manzin, Achim Steiner, Martin
> Wachs, Robert Ayres, Sushmita Ghosh, Michael Walsh, Priyadarshini Karve, Ken
> Livingstone, Bill Gates, Steven Case, Jerry Yang, Muhammad Yunus, Richard
> Dawkins. Among others.
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>
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> Once again, I am pleased to express my personal thanks to all of you who
> have got behind our nominations for this year's awards, and I am sure that
> this recognition will not only be useful for them in their work but also for
> all of us who are concerned with sustainable mobility, sustainable cities
> and sustainable lives. What more could we ask for?
>
>
>
> Eric Britton
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