<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> 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@ecoplan.org – with copies to fekbritton@gmail.com sine I am having terrible spam problems – and then later as appropriate I can efficiently share with the others. 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