From the University Partnerships Clearinghouse: “To encourage a new generation of urban policymakers and to promote early career research, USAID’s Urban Programs Team, International Housing Coalition (IHC), World Bank, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project (CUSP), and Cities Alliance are co-sponsoring a third annual paper competition. The competition seeks paper submissions for an upcomingRead… Read more »
From the University Partnerships Clearinghouse: “To encourage a new generation of urban policymakers and to promote early career research, USAID’s Urban Programs Team, International Housing Coalition (IHC), World Bank, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project (CUSP), and Cities Alliance are co-sponsoring a third annual paper competition. The competition seeks paper submissions for an upcomingRead… Read more »
Those Montel Williams commercials for Money Mutual really annoy me. It has nothing to do with predatory lending or anything like that, though it certainly is a field worthy of disdain. It has to do with Montel’s shoulders. His shoulders. I looked for the commercial on YouTube but I can’t find it. If you reallyRead… Read more »
(Clockwise, from top left: concentrated solar in red and wind; concentrated solar, wind and biomass in green; hydro in purple and geothermal; PVs and wave energy.) It’s easy to spend a lot of time adding and removing layers from NREL’s RE Atlas tool. It’s easy to use, and provides a wealth of information. Recently, whileRead… Read more »
STOCK ACT SET FOR VOTE. Roll Call. “The Senate is set to vote on taking up legislation Monday that would explicitly ban federal lawmakers and their staff from trading on insider information.” ROMNEY TO REVISE. Story here. “Mitt Romney could face new questions about his overseas investments after a campaign official acknowledged to NBC NewsRead… Read more »
The Transportation Research Board’s 91st Annual Meeting is over, and like many of the conference’s record-breaking 11,000 attendees, I returned home brimming with enthusiasm and new ideas for The Transit Wire and my consulting work. It’s impossible to summarize the meeting with a handful of tweets, but here are ten that touch upon TRB’s combinationRead… Read more »
The MBTA has taken some of the mystery out of ground transportation at Logan Airport with a new countdown sign for the Silver Line BRT at Terminal C. Original post
Ottawa transit commissioners plan to recommend releasing OC Transpo’s bus-location data as soon as possible, despite the GM’s advice to the contrary Original post
In Lancaster California (population 157,000) Mayor R. Rex Parris has installed 70 speakers along a half mile stretch of a city street and for the past 10 months has played bird songs blended with mellow synthesizer tones, five hours a day. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the Mayor believes the birdRead… Read more »
The Google Analytics URL Builder is a simple tool that helps you track traffic statistics for specific campaign related links. The tool works by adding parameters to a link from a page on your site that you then track using Google Analytics. When running an advertising or social media campaign, this is incredibly handy forRead… Read more »