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1st Annual
Houston Tomorrow Golf Tournament:
A Long Walk for Sustainable Urbanism
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Hermann Park Golf Course

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My Houston 2040
A meeting of the minds

Houston City Council Member Sue Lovell reflecting on 6 years of working for the people of Houston.

Neighborhood Centers President & CEO Angela Blanchard on her vision for the Houston region in 2040.

Co-hosted by Houston Tomorrow, Citizens' Transportation Coalition, & Air Alliance Houston.

Thurs, August 11, 5-6:45 pm
Rudyard's Upstairs
2010 Waugh Drive (map)
Free & open to the public.
Food & drinks available.

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Blue Gold:
World Water Wars
Houston Green Film Series
August 09, 2011
6:30 - 9:30pm

Following the movie will be a presentation on Houston based non-profit, Living Water International, that currently works on solving world-wide water issue.

Rice Universtiy Media Center
2030 University
$5 Suggested Donation, light dinner by Jazz "E" Catering

Downtown/EaDo Livable Centers Study Public Meeting
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
6 pm -8:00 pm
Incarnate Word Academy Auditorium
609 Crawford Street

1st Annual Architecture Center Houston Film Festival
August 11,  7pm
Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe
August 12,  7pm
VDL Research House: Richard Neutra's Studio and Residence
August 13,  7pm
Citizen Architect

All movies $10 or $20 / Free for ArCH Member

Registration
Website

14th Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Summit Featuring the 4th Annual Global High-Speed Rail Forum
Aug. 9-12, 2011
Irving, Texas

Second Semi-Annual Seed Swap
August 20, 2-4pm
Radical Eats
3903 Fulton Ave

Trade your seeds and plants with other local growers.

Admission: Bring seeds and plants to share and/or a small donation. Please bring information about the seed.

USGBC Texas Gulf Coast Chapter Energy Summit
Thursday, August 23
The Houstonian
111 North Post Oak Lane

Tickets to the summit are $150 per person. More information, including registration, is available online or call the USGBC Texas Gulf Coast Chapter at 281-506-3867
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August 3, 2011
NOTABLE QUOTES
"Every family in Houston will pay an additional $1,060 per year because of a declining transportation system. With a modest national investment of $94 billion, the US could increase economic output by $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. In the City of Houston, that would mean additional economic output of more than $22 billion, and in the Houston region that number would be nearly $60 billion.”
 - Wayne Klotz, president of Klotz Associates and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on decaying US infrastructure.

TOMORROW MAGAZINE
Announcing the release of Houston Tomorrow's TOMORROW Magazine Issue #4, focused on envisioning a jobs and people centric transit system for the future of the Houston region as well as the importance of equitable, efficient transit-oriented development in Houston's 65 emerging light rail neighborhoods.

Individual copies are available upon request and bulk copies are available for all Houston area educators, governments, and others seeking to expand the amount of Houstonians meaningfully involved with invisioning the future of transit in the region and in your neighborhood.  All elected officials in the region should find a copy in their mailbox soon.  Please contact Jay Blazek Crossley to request copies or distribution at your retail/local food establishment.

REGIONAL NOTES
Decaying infrastructure will cost
Houston households money
Long-term transportation needs, decaying roads, bridges, railroads and transit systems are costing the United States billions, and Houston households are paying.

Three contracts let for road across Katy Prairie
The Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) recently awarded three of four contracts for the toll road, Segment E of State Highway 99.

Metro’s Greanias suspended for a week
Metro CEO George Greanias has been suspended for a week for accessing "adult" websites on Metro Internet system.

MEGAREGIONAL NOTES
Aquifers dropping at ‘alarming’ rate
The Texas drought is causing the state aquifers to drop at an alarming rate.

COMMENTARY

David Crossley
It's hot. It's dry. What now?


Brendan Smith
The sustainable seafood myth


David Alpert
Stop distorting the cost of living
with anti-urban subsidies
 
Joseph Romm
Be unprepared:
the GOP war against climate adaptation
 
Todd Litman
Integrated planning
for community health and safety

NOTES FROM OTHER PLACES
Automakers agree to 54.5 mpg standard by 2025
Twelve major automakers have come to a historic agreement with President Obama to increase fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks.

Denver to get $1.03 billion for commuter rail
Denver's Regional Transportation Disrtrict was awarded $1.03 billion from the FTA for its FasTracks program to construct two commuter rail lines.

Unprecedented risk of marine extinction is high
The world's ocean is at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history, according to a new international report.

Public-private partnerships favor roads, not evenly spread
Use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) may be leading to uneven project development patterns in cities, favoring roads over transit, according to new study.

Comprehensive strategies for addressing food deserts
Communities can most effectively address food deserts working with big and small stores, farmers' markets, & direct farm to consumers, according to new report.

FAA remains partially shut down
Due to the US Congress not passing legislation to continue its funding, the Federal Aviation Administration partially shuts down, closing some airports & jobs.

Prepared by Jay Blazek Crossley. News and commentary are published daily on the Houston Tomorrow website. This newsletter is published on Tuesday evenings and is a compilation of items published earlier. To stay abreast of the news as it is published, check the website at houstontomorrow.org, and/or subscribe to our rss feed or get the news as we report it on Twitter.
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