Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22 No. 27 With its vote on September 21, the Senate Appropriations Committee ended the rail boosters’ hopes of getting a meaningful appropriation for high-speed rail in the new (FY 2012) fiscal year. It probably also dealt a decisive death blow to President Obama’s loopy goal of “giving 80 percent of Americans […]
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For High-Speed Rail It Looks Like the End of the Line
Monday, October 3rd, 2011November 6th-8th: High-Speed Rail 2011, New York City
Thursday, September 29th, 2011From the US High-Speed Rail Association: Don’t miss this exciting high speed rail event of the year – High Speed Rail 2011! The Big Apple is the place to be November 6-8. Business and political leaders will come together with the world’s top experts to bring high speed rail to America. High speed rail is […]
View this complete post...The American Jobs Act
Monday, September 19th, 2011
THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
The American people understand that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades. That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis – we need to rebuild the economy the American way, based on balance, fairness, and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street.
Plano, Texas: Environmental Education Center Construction
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Plano’s Environmental Education Center is open but here’s a look back at its construction in early 2010. – cityofplanotexas on YouTube
View this complete post...Economic Expansion, Energy Independence and Environmental Efficiency: Renewables in the South
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
SOUTHERN LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
As states emerge from the Great Recession the deepest broadest and sharpest economic downturn experienced in the United States since the Great Depression state policymakers confront an unenviable set of obstacles. Beyond the multiplicity of short-term challenges associated with balancing their states’ budgets as a result of the steep drop in revenues, policymakers also are struggling with a more structural weakness in our economy: the rapidly eroding manufacturing sector in the United States.
View this complete post...Tacoma, Washington: Time Lapse of Schatz Lab Construction
Friday, September 9th, 2011A time-lapse video composed of photographs taken between the start of construction in February 2009 and the completion of landscaping in August 2011. – SchatzLab on YouTube “At the Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) on California’s North Coast, we are working to establish clean energy technologies in our society. We specialize in renewable energy, energy […]
View this complete post...October 11th-13th: 3rd Annual North America Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum
Friday, September 9th, 2011
From CG/LA Infrastructure On October 11-13, 2011, over 500 executives from the public and private sector will gather in Washington, DC for the 3rd Annual North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum. The Forum is a dynamic 2.5 day conference, focused on infrastructure development in North America, designed to facilitate business and promote projects across the […]
View this complete post...Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Empire
Monday, September 5th, 2011
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Broadband and information communication technologies have the potential of revolutionizing energy management and economic development. With less than five percent of the world’s population, the United States accounts for about a quarter of the world’s energy consumption. A poor communications infrastructure underlies much of our wasted energy use. In order to reduce energy, new communication technologies can be an important tool to better monitor and more effectively use natural resources. Advanced communications, including a more robust wired and wireless web, will play an essential role in facilitating and integrating these technologies.
View this complete post...What is the Smart Grid?
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Whether we want it or not, the “smart grid” is on its way. In this animated guide we show you the essential features. – SciAmerican on YouTube
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard G. Luthy, Director of Engineering, Research Center for Re-Inventing Water Infrastructure
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Richard Luthy is the Director of Engineering for the Research Center for Re-Inventing America’s Water Infrastructure. He is also the Silas H. Palmer Professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is […]
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