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LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY
This guide focuses on clean energy financing options for school administrators, facility managers, and other K-12 school decision makers who are considering investments in high performance school projects. This guide explicitly focuses on comprehensive energy upgrades, those that involve multiple measures and are targeted toward achieving significant energy savings.
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Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But [...]
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Once every four years, America’s civil engineers provide a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s major infrastructure categories in ASCE’s Report Card for America’s Infrastructure (Report Card). Using a simple A to F school report card format, the Report Card provides a comprehensive assessment of current infrastructure conditions and needs, both assigning grades and making recommendations for how to raise the grades. An Advisory Council of ASCE members assigns the grades according to the following eight criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation. Since 1998, the grades have been near failing, averaging only Ds, due to delayed maintenance and underinvestment across most categories.
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SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The 2012 Transportation Action Agenda outlines policies, actions, and performance measures for SDOT over a two-year period. It is organized around five core principles.
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Gas lines are still frighteningly long in New York and New Jersey This tool created by Franklin High School Students in Somerset, New Jersey could help you find out where to get gas amidst the the long lines and low fuel supply
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AAA FOUNDATION FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY Introduction Teenage drivers are involved in more crashes per mile driven than drivers of any other age group; drivers aged 16-17 are involved in about seven times as many crashes per mile driven as drivers in their forties, fifties, or sixties (General Estimates System, 2012; National Household Travel Survey, 2011). [...]
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Keeping our schools in our neighborhoods is an important first step. Designing them to be neighborhood friendly is the critical second step. One example in Powell, WY, leaves a lot to be desired. -strongtowns on YouTube.
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Welcome to Michigan! Join Billy Magic and The Kid as they journey through the University of Michigan to learn about the transportation system. The Michigan Transportation Musical features and was entirely produced by U-M students. Shot over 3 days in May of 2012, it airs at New Student Orientation for incoming students each summer. STARRING:The [...]
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