Pearls-on-a-String: Sustainable Design and Transport

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Going Solar

Name

Stephen Ingrouille

Bio

Stephen Ingrouille has been working in the sustainability industry since 1976. He is the proprietor of Going Solar, a leading Australian renewable firm, and has co-founded a number of environment-focused community organisations. One such initiative is the Sustainable Living Foundation whose festival attracts 120,000 people to Melbourne each year. In 2004, he was a finalist in two categories of the Banksia Environmental Awards: Australians Working for a Sustainable Future and the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year. In August 2006 he won the Melbourne Award, which recognised thirty years of Contribution to Environment. Stephen specialises in sustainable design, renewable energy and sustainable transport options for a wide range of applications. Throughout November 2006 Stephen delivered a series of workshop presentations on sustainable buildings and renewable energy on the West Coast of North America. While he was there, he investigated their sustainable transport systems and infrastructure. In 2007 he was working on Ultra-Light Rail proposals for Hambantota and Siribopura in southern Sri Lanka and for Lilydale and Healesville in Victoria.

Going Solar sponsors a two-page Sustainable Transport Newsletter which can be accessed at www.goingsolar.com.au/transport For a free email subscription send your name and details to steve@goingsolar.com.au

Date

Sun 17th

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01/01/2006 - 3:00pm

Description

Many of us are addicted to our cars but their use adds to our health problems and for non-occupants these vehicles cause loss of amenity and intrusion into our social spaces. Victoria needs to substantially improve its public transport infrastructure particularly for the new fringe suburbs but also for the central core which in many ways is at capacity. There is a solution in Ultra-Light Rail particularly where it is combined with an urban design process known as ‘Pearls-on-a-String’. Ultra-Light Rail (or Light Tram) comprises of vehicles that are less expensive, weigh physically less, need less intensive track work and do not utilise an expensive overhead pantograph system. Stephen will speak on these issues and introduce some other innovative forms of sustainable transport

Email

steve@goingsolar.com.au

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01/01/2006 - 4:00pm