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Carbon-Free Communities: Pairing Land Use and Mobility

Carbon-Free Communities: Pairing Land Use and Mobility. Mary Bell Austin Green To Do Carbon Free Mobility conference Oakland, CA March 6, 2009. High Expectations. Vibrant, healthy communities What role does transportation play? Can we work together? Beyond sustainability.

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Carbon-Free Communities: Pairing Land Use and Mobility

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  1. Carbon-Free Communities:Pairing Land Use and Mobility Mary Bell Austin Green To Do Carbon Free Mobility conference Oakland, CA March 6, 2009

  2. High Expectations • Vibrant, healthy communities • What role does transportation play? • Can we work together? • Beyond sustainability

  3. My Challenge to Us All • Apply Ecological Thinking • Connect the dots • Play well together • Integrate solutions • Care Enough to Take Risks • Know your discipline • Listen to others • Seek to collaborate • Dare to dream big

  4. The Challenges Before Us • Climate Change • Short window of opportunity • 80% reduction of GHG by 2050 • Peak Everything • Oil, water, seafood, farmland . . . • Restoring Ecological Capital • Air, water, soil – natural systems • Revitalizing Communities • Clean, safe, human scale, connected

  5. How Did We Get Here? • Cheap oil, cheap travel • Gobbling natural resources • Becoming too mobile • Building everywhere, anywhere • Sprawling infrastructure • Roads • Housing • Water • Ignoring distance • Food • Work • Goods • Travel

  6. The High Cost of Auto-Centrism • Motor Vehicles as dominant mode • 95% vehicle miles traveled • 90% passenger miles • Environmental Costs • Air quality - emissions • Infrastructure (roads, parking) • Wildlife killed and habitat impaired • Vehicle lifecycle costs • Ties to climate change

  7. California’s Greenhouse Gas Sources2004 GHG emissions by Sector (Gross emissions: 484.4 MMT CO2e) -CA ARB

  8. Post-Peak Transportation

  9. Finding Solutions • Start with Communities • What does livability look like? • Quiet, and green space • Local jobs, shops, schools, play • Local food, clean air, safe water • Neighborliness - interaction • Human-scale movement • Where does transportation fit in?

  10. Pairing Mobility and Land Use • Changing the paradigm • Can you give up your car? • Connecting systems / modes • Can you get from A to B without gaps? • Choosing good technology • Clean, safe, affordable, efficient • Prioritizing the best modes for scaled needs • Walking, biking • Great transit • Accessories – automobiles, ships, planes, etc

  11. Continuing the Discussion • Questions deferred • Dinners tonight • Contact me: • marybellaustin@gmail.com • www.greentodo.com

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