Wednesday’s story from National Public Radio week long series on High Speed Rail focused on so-called multimodal design or transportation. This idea goes beyond the rail system and into what happens when riders get off the rail. A major concern for commuters and rail riders is the complete public transportation equation. Once riders arrive at [...]
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Recap of Wednesday’s NPR Series on High Speed Rail
September 5th, 2009 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation 
Tags: Bus, High Speed Rail, Mass Transit, Portland-Oregon, Saint Louis Missouri, Stimulus Bill, Trains 
No Comments »Recap of Tuesday’s NPR Story on High Speed Rail
September 3rd, 2009 Eric Wilson NPR reported on Tuesday, as part of their week long series on high speed rail in the United States, that the federal government has already received 278 proposal for rail projects from 40 states and Washington DC. These proposals are competing for the $8 billion (US) made available in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, President Obama, Transportation Tags: High Speed Rail, Portland-Oregon, Stimulus Bill, Trains, Washington DC No Comments »Top 10 Bike Friendly Cities Around The World
July 4th, 2009 Eric Wilson Travel and Leisure magazine recently released a top ten list of bike friendly cities (in no particular order). Several American cities, including Minneapolis, Minnesota, made the list. Both Portland (discussed here in a recent series) and Seattle were also recognized. Only two cities in the Southern hemisphere, Bogotá, Columbia and Perth, Australia were among the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Bike Sharing, Minnesota, Portland-Oregon, Travel and Leisure No Comments »Five Friday Facts
July 3rd, 2009 Justin Manger The five “greenest” cities in the U.S., according to Popular Science: 1) Portland, OR 2) San Francisco, CA 3) Boston, MA 4) Oakland, CA 5) Eugene, OR Americans buy 28 billion single-serving plastic water bottles every year, and 80% of those end up in landfills, according to the Container Recycling Institute. Recycling one ton (2000 [...]
Portland’s Burgeoning Green Building Community
July 2nd, 2009 Eric Wilson In the final post on Oregon companies that were featured in the documentary Passion for Sustainability, the future of buildings takes center stage. If Americans are to play major a role in a sustainable future, they can lead the way with the buildings they construct. As mentioned in an earlier post on businesses in Oregon, [...]
Timber’s Future: Sustainably Managed Forests
July 1st, 2009 Eric Wilson As mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post on Carleton Hart Architects and the Tualatin Valley Water District, today’s subject deals with another facet of Oregon’s Natural Step movement. Timber, at the heart of America’s expansion in the 19th century, represents a major opportunity in sustainable development. Although wood is a renewable resource, it has [...]
