“We Spend 19% of Our Money On Cars”
Get your attention? I know it got mine.
That is the beauty of Pechakucha: 20 seconds per slide and only 20 slides is just 400 seconds to tell your story. Grab the audience’s attention early, move quickly, and be concise, and you will be successful.
Brian Malarkey, author of the “We spend 19% of our money on cars” quote, spent 400 seconds (6:40) making the case for a better approach to energy consumption. He feels that the future will require us to explore and support alternative transportation options, not just rely on cars.
Brian was among eight presenters who answered the question, “What does it mean to be a sustainable city?” as part of a themed Pechakucha (PK) event held in Herman Miller’s Houston showroom. From the built environment, to conserving the natural environment, to sustainability as a public-policy issue, everyone delivered a unique perspective on the theme
Sustainability is an important topic for Houston as it challenges itself to become a truly sustainable city. And for Herman Miller as well, as we move closer to our goal of zero waste by 2020.
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Photo: Ian Johnston
It is a pity that the passenger rail system in the U.S. has fallen into such disrepair. I actually took a look at traveling from Dallas to Colorado by train. It would cost over $1000 for two people! It would be cheaper to fly.
When I was a kid, my whole family took a train trip from Texas to Illinois and I imagine it wasn’t expensive (or my parents couldn’t have afforded it). Things have really changed.
One of the things that makes trains so cheap to run is that they aren’t constantly accelerating and decelerating. I read recently that a train can pull 1 ton of weight for 1000 miles on a gallon of diesel fuel because it just builds up momentum and can basically coast a lot of the time. It would be a good investment to get that infrastructure back in shape with fuel costs so high.
Daisy
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