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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The Great Leap
</SPAN></B><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">China</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> Car Free Days Idea
Factory<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Outline draft proposal for an open
brainstorm<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kindly preserve Subject line in
future posts;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It’s soon 2007 and we have now
accumulated a dozen years of international experience with Car Free Days of many
sorts in many places. Against this background the goal of this proposed group
thinking exercise is to see what we might get out of it if we launch an open
group brainstorm on how the best of this experience and past lessons may be put
to work in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">China</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> in the months and years immediately
ahead. Caution: We are certainly not talking here about anything like some
direct “transfer of experience”, not least because in fact the overall record of
accomplishment of the Car Free Days movement internationally is, despite
occasional successes, hardly what one might call a model of success. But there
are in all this some germs of ideas, and the goal of this group think and talk
exercise will be to see if we can scratch together and come up with something
that might have some uses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eric
Britton. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<DIV
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I. The Three Great Truths . . .
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>of
</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">China</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, Cars and the
Future.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=1>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">They are going
to be more and more cars coming onto the streets and roads of
</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">China</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> -- and coming
at rates never seen anywhere in the world in the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And these cars will be used.
Ineluctably. And there is nothing that anyone else can do about it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is thus not only an ‘all-China’
problem, but it is also an ‘only-China’ problem when it comes to addressing
and solving it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There are at
least three basic reasons why this challenge truly needs to be met, as a huge
priority: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=a>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For the
country and its citizens, its environment and its future;
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For the rest
of the world in terms of the potential for huge world wide negative
environmental and climate impacts; and <o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For a world
badly in need of new models of behaviour and collective problem solving in
areas such as these.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI></OL>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On the positive
side of the ledger, the Chinese elephant is just about unique in the world, in
that it is one which can turn on a dime, when it decides to. This means, for
better or worse, that once the political decisions have been made at the
appropriate level, the country can embrace entirely new patterns of
behaviour.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 3pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI></OL>
<DIV
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<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">II.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
Challenge<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=1>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">These very very
large numbers of cars are going to have enormous environmental, social and
economic impacts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Much of this is
going to be very negative indeed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The absorption
capacity of almost all Chinese cities and towns for these large numbers of new
cars are very very limited.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There are
however choices – though it would seem that these are not very clear to those
who are making the decisions (or really much anyone else) these
days.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The ‘time
locks”: There are two that come to mind: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI></OL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">a.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Most important,
the environmental and other impacts which are already underway and which
threaten the country both in specific places and indeed as a whole.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">b.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the coming great events, including
the 2008 Olympics in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Beijing</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and the 2010
World’s Fair in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Shanghai</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It may be that
for various reasons it will be the concerns about the latter which drive the
move toward a pattern break.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm" type=1 start=6>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The country is
keen to innovate and to demonstrate new patterns in the
process.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI></OL>
<DIV
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">III. First Great Leap
Brainstorm<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Use all the
available distance and group work tools to somehow get together with Chinese
experts, politicians, the media and civil society to have a look at one specific
idea.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Specifically to
see what might be done if they were to build on the dozen plus years of
experimentation and lessons learned in the Car Free Days movement in many other
places.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">a.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To concentrate
entirely on the challenges of cars in towns and cities. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">b.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NOT to accept any
of the existing Car Free Day models, but rather to search and innovate one that
just might open the door to new thinking and new practices which can possibly
lead to a major “pattern break” and a new model, both for China and for the
world. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To carry out this
idea search in a way that those of us who are not Chinese understand fully that
our role if any is simply to try to lend a hand on the understanding that the
ultimate decisions and solutions will be entirely of their doing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Put in other terms our goal is to put
our experience and a certain number or raw materials into their hands for them
to work with. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">4.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Here are four
possibly useful examples that I propose we start by looking over and discussing
to see what if any useful lessons can be derived from them. (This is my
personal<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>shopping list on this and
I put it forth her just to get the ball rolling. You will most probably have
ideas of your own. I would hope.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">a.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The, I would like
to call them, Enrique Penalosa Car Free Days in Bogotá. (I will be pleased to
discuss why I chose to call them as such.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">b.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Italian
Ecological Sundays – (<SPAN class=testograssetto>Domeniche
Ecologiche)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">c.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The South African
national Car Free Days program<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3"><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">d.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
self-organized Car Free Day events in </SPAN></SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pasto</SPAN></SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
</SPAN></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Colombia</SPAN></SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"><SPAN
class=testograssetto><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Again the goal
here is not to select some sort of ‘top ten’ projects as in a beauty contest,
but to see if we can open up the exchanges with a first handful of real world
examples that differ from each other and might possibly have application
potential in the activities that we would like to help make happen
there.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">5.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One idea that I
would like to see receiving some attention from the beginning, is not so much
that of a uniform national program along the lines that the French and EC have
pushed, but rather perhaps a <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cities
Program</I>, even some sort of cooperative competition in which specific cities
carve out a particular idea that they are ready to run with, and to this in
public and as a contribution not only to their own citizens but also to other
cities and groups across China who are looking for ideas that can make a
difference <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">6.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How to develop
and advance these ideas:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">a.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Through exchanges
if possible focusing on a single main collector site –I suggest the Lots Less
Cars Idea Factory at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LotsLessCars/
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">b.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On the other hand
this will have to outreach to bring in the many people and programs who have
expertise and competence in these areas. This is quite a long list and perhaps
at a next stage we can begin to scope it out as well. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-list: Ignore">c.<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some group work
tools that we might want to think about using in addition to the
above:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>i.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some kind of
dynamic Wiki(pedia) group work project <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>ii.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Google Documents
(This note is posted as an open document which you can rewrite as you wish at
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9b63x7_28g7dpc3.)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN>iii.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Also
posted to The New Mobility Group Blog at <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2006/12/great-leap-china-car-free-days-idea.html"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2006/12/great-leap-china-car-free-days-idea.html</SPAN></A>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>where comments are invited.
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">7.<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And
now it’s your turn!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML>