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Archive for the ‘Competitiveness’ Category

WPA 2.0 Design Competition Seeking Entries

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

If you have new ideas for infrastructural-system design, here’s a chance to put them into action! Drawing its acronym from the depression-era Works Progress Administration, the WPA 2.0 competition aims to discover and develop innovative and imaginative ideas for 21st century infrastructural systems.  This UCLA-based competition encourages entrants to explore the potential of infrastructure projects […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: David Walker, CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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David M. Walker is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the newly established Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan foundation “dedicated to increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of key economic challenges threatening America’s future.” Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. InfrastructureUSA recently spoke with him in New York City.

Excerpts from that conversation:

“The first three words of the constitution are the most important: ‘We the People.’ ‘We the People’ have a responsibility to be informed and involved, in order to let our elected representatives know what’s important to us,what we want, what we need, and what we’re willing to support. And quite frankly we’ve got a situation right now where there’s a big disconnect. And it’s threatening our future…”

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Re-Training America, Part 1

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

“The first of three installments of a documentary film done for a Political Science course at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, that examines the issue of transportation and energy usage, and promotes the diversification of the US transportation system through greater investment in rail and transit.”

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Electricity Outlook: Powering New York City’s Economic Future

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS
“A critical threshold looms for the years 2010-2015, when projected electric capacity requirements for New York City and Long Island could fall “substantially below” the Statewide criteria…”

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Reinventing Transit: American Communities Finding Smarter, Cleaner, Faster Transportation Solutions

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
“Lawmakers and authorities must seize the moment to support and expand upon the innovative transit investments already occurring that will reduce greenhouse gas pollution, create permanent new jobs and revitalize our national economy…”

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Building Minds, Minding Buildings: Turning Crumbling Schools into Environments for Learning

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
“Every weekday, millions of children and school staff spend the day in buildings that can make them sick, injure them or diminish their productivity…”

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Founder, Building America’s Future

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Governor Edward G. Rendell (D - PA)

InfrastructureUSA recently spoke with Governor Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania, about the urgent need for civic engagement on infrastructure. Governor Rendell, along with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, founded Building America’s Future, “a bipartisan coalition of elected officials dedicated to bringing about a new era of U.S. investment in infrastructure.”

Excerpts from that conversation:

“The infrastructure challenge comes at a very difficult time in our nation’s history, because the economy is flattened, because there’s been so much federal investment in the bailout of the financial institutions, the bailout of the mortgage institutions, because we built up significant debt, I think all necessary to turn the economy around. For infrastructure to come knocking on the door, saying we need to invest and the only way to do it is to build up significant debt and invest it in something valuable that has long — those long term assets — that’s a hard sell. It’s a hard sell in the Congress and it’s a hard sell with the President who’s taken on a number of enormously broad and ambitious challenges. And the only way I think we have a chance to make that sell successful is not to convince Washington first, but we have to convince hometown America first. We have to get the people involved in the dialogue, get them to understand and to buy into the need for infrastructure revitalization in this country, and let their representatives know that we’re with you on this one…”

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Energy and Climate Change

Friday, June 5th, 2009

AMERICA 2050/ REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION
“America’s response to the dual challenge of meeting its growing energy needs and responding to the threat of global climate change will define its ability to compete globally in the 21st century…”

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