[WC.TC] Fwd: [SCPEL] for listserv posting, a May 22nd event

[Jacob Cabrera]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Caitlin Brune" <cmbrune at gmail.com>
> Date: May 19, 2008 11:52:56 AM PDT
> To: scpel at panna.org
> Subject: [SCPEL] for listserv posting, a May 22nd event
>
> The Santa Cruz Progressive Email List (SCPEL)
> -----------------------------------------------
> An event co-sponsored by People Power, IF, and the Campaign for  
> Sensible Transportation.
>
>
>>> The social inequity consequences of our past land use development  
>>> (sprawl) are becoming more severe as gas prices go up and up.  
>>> This forum represents a convergence of social justice folks with  
>>> the folks who have worked on growth and environmental issues. The  
>>> latter are now coming to the conclusion that the people who work  
>>> in our urban centers need to live there. That means affordable  
>>> housing is on the environmentalist agenda.
>>> Best,
>>> Rick
>>>
>>> Designs for a Green Future: The Transportation---Land Use  
>>> Connection.
>>>>> Thursday, May 22. 6:45 refreshments, 7:05-9 Forum
>>>>> @ Live Oak Grange Hall, 1900 17th Ave.,  corner of Capitola Rd.
>>>
>>> Global Climate Change and Peak Oil provide compelling urgency to  
>>> transform society's dependency on automobile transportation. To  
>>> do that, we need to transform our land use planning to create  
>>> communities where people live close to work, school, shopping and  
>>> recreation.
>>> These speakers will outline the principles of land-use design  
>>> that make for walk-able and transit-friendly communities. They  
>>> will describe what communities like ours are already doing to  
>>> create a sustainable and socially equitable future.
>>>
>>> Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California  
>>> Transportation Center and Co-Director of the Global Metropolitan  
>>> Studies Program at UC Berkeley. She has authored many books and  
>>> articles, including Equity and Environmental Justice in  
>>> Sustainable Transportation
>>> Amanda Eaken is on staff with the Natural Resources Defense  
>>> Council, working to enact SB 375 in the state legislature. SB 375  
>>> is designed to implement California's landmark Global Warming  
>>> Solutions Act. It would require that state transportation funding  
>>> be limited to projects that are consistent with plans to reduce  
>>> automobile dependency.
>>> Moderator, Tom Burns, Planning Director for Santa Cruz County
>>> unconfirmed: a speaker from Transportation and Land Use Coalition  
>>> of the Bay Area
>>> unconfirmed: Joe DiStefano, a planner with Calthorpe Associates
>>>
>>>
>>> Initiators: The Campaign for Sensible Transportation,http:// 
>>> sensibletransportation.org/ and People Power of Santa Cruz  
>>> County, http://www.peoplepowersc.org/.
>>> Contact:
>>> People Power: Micah Posner, micah at peoplepowersc.org, 831 425-8665
>>> Rick Longinotti  longinotti at baymoon.com 425-0341
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> Caitlin Brune
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