Here is a link to an electronic print program describing the event and

Here is a link to an electronic print program describing the event and panelists: https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/2021%20Finance%20Summit%20Program_FINAL%20%2806.10%29.pdf Transportation policymakers face two overlapping, once-in-a-generation opportunities: electrifying the nation’s vehicle fleet and re-establishing a stable source of federal and state revenue for transportation. As states and the Biden administration begin a push to rapidly electrify the U.S. fleet for climate reasons, policymakers are under increasing pressure to rethink how states and the federal government fund transportation infrastructure and services. For decades, motor fuel taxes have generated the majority of state and federal funds spent on transportation, even if recently these taxes have been losing their purchasing power. However, a shift to electric vehicles will require a new transportation funding model. The speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities with such options as mileage fees, carbon taxes, higher vehicle registration fees, or a shift entirely away from user-generated revenue. NOTES This program is supported by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University. SPEAKERS Just added: Special Guest, The Honorable Pete Buttigieg U.S. Secretary of Transportation Karen Philbrick Ph.D., Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute—Program Emcee Opening Remarks: U.S. Senator Alex Padilla U.S. Senator (D-CA); Former California Secretary of State Keynote: Toks Omishakin Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Event Moderator: Therese McMillan Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Ph.D. Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center Carl Guardino Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy, Bloom Energy Carlos Braceras, P.E. Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation Dan Sperling, Ph.D. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.  Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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Transportation policymakers face two overlapping, once-in-a-generation opportunities: electrifying the nation’s vehicle fleet and re-establishing a stable source of federal and state revenue for

Transportation policymakers face two overlapping, once-in-a-generation opportunities: electrifying the nation’s vehicle fleet and re-establishing a stable source of federal and state revenue for transportation. As states and the Biden administration begin a push to rapidly electrify the U.S. fleet for climate reasons, policymakers are under increasing pressure to rethink how states and the federal government fund transportation infrastructure and services. For decades, motor fuel taxes have generated the majority of state and federal funds spent on transportation, even if recently these taxes have been losing their purchasing power. However, a shift to electric vehicles will require a new transportation funding model. The speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities with such options as mileage fees, carbon taxes, higher vehicle registration fees, or a shift entirely away from user-generated revenue. NOTES This program is supported by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University. SPEAKERS Just added: Special Guest, The Honorable Pete Buttigieg U.S. Secretary of Transportation Karen Philbrick Ph.D., Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute—Program Emcee Opening Remarks: U.S. Senator Alex Padilla U.S. Senator (D-CA); Former California Secretary of State Keynote: Toks Omishakin Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Event Moderator: Therese McMillan Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Ph.D. Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center Carl Guardino Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy, Bloom Energy Carlos Braceras, P.E. Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation Dan Sperling, Ph.D. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained. Check out Climate Town here: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 In this special Our Changing Climate video, I showcase Rollie at

Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained. Check out Climate Town here: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 In this special Our Changing Climate video, I showcase Rollie at Climate Town's video all about why your carbon footprint is a scam. Through this carbon footprint video, Rollie reveals how and why the BP oil created the idea of the carbon footprint. Over the course of multiple decades, BP used the idea of a carbon footprint to push the responsibility and the burden of carbon emissions onto the individual and away from their own practices. Essentially BP created the carbon footprint as an elaborate victim-blaming scheme. Your carbon footprint matters, but the reason why you have a carbon footprint in the first place is that fossil fuel companies like BP have fought tooth and nail against any kind of transition away from oil and gas. Make sure to follow Climate Town via these links: Climate Town YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 Climate Town on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@climatetown Climate Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/climatetown/ Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: http://bit.ly/2iz4lIV Email List: https://www.subscribepage.com/ourchangingclimate Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/ Check out other Climate YouTubers: zentouro: https://www.youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRM8LE1g6UXrVZKwgw5oEA Levi Hildebrand: https://www.youtube.com/user/The100LH Simon Clark: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys Sarah Karver: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw Sweet Soul Whisper ASMR: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWMO64iyRbXQCq5fT4BlBw ClimateTown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Jack Harries: https://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap Just Have a Think: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRBwLPbXGsI2cJe9W1zfSjQ Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ I use Epidemic Sound for some of my music: http://epidemicsound.com/creator _______________________ Resources and Further Reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AKR2j4CymosDtmfEoDt2geSCtk9QoyyXBb2QdBj4jkE/edit?usp=sharing #CarbonFootprint #CarbonOffset #ClimateChange

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Visit http://oceana.org/FishStories to learn more about seafood traceability It seems like a simple concept—knowing where your food comes from. But unfortunately, seafood lovers rarely know how

Visit http://oceana.org/FishStories to learn more about seafood traceability It seems like a simple concept—knowing where your food comes from. But unfortunately, seafood lovers rarely know how the fish got to their dinner plate. This knowledge is important, because a complex and opaque seafood supply chain opens the door to illegal and irresponsible fishing practices, seafood fraud, public health risks, and even human trafficking, forced labor and organized crime. These problems threaten the oceans and consumer’s wallets, and unfairly undermine honest fishermen and businesses that play by the rules. But these are fixable problems. The first step in ensuring that seafood is safe, legally caught, and honestly labeled, is traceability. Traceability increases transparency and accountability in the seafood supply chain by ensuring that information such as how, when and where fish are caught or farmed follows the fish from boat to plate. The ability to share information along the seafood supply chain reduces the risk of seafood fraud and helps prevent illegally caught product from entering the market. Music by Adam Lindquist: http://adamlindquist.com/ Sounds via Freesound.org, by the following users: cfork, batch, mich3d, adbicycle, pagancow, traveler, pushtobreak, corsica-s, roscoetoon, the-bizness, freqman, digifishmusic, bennychico, rewired, ekuseru, florian-reinke, xtyl33, ludvique, soundstack, gynation, metamorphmuses, cgeffex, acekasbo, stereostereo, primejunt, susychristiansen, j-zazvurek, lolamadeus, music-boy, ptentjello, tambascot, 7778, ballistiq85, iberian-runa, szybki16, simosco, speedygonzo, klankbeeld, martialway47, gowlermusic, aldenroth2, theta4

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Take a journey with Director Jerome Osentowski, Commissioner Jill Ryan, and Environmental Policy Planner Adam Palmer through the luscious forest garden at the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute in Basalt, Colorado located at a cool 7,200 ft. in the Rockies. Jerome, a 40-year permaculture specialist living in a sustainable active and passive solar home will discuss permaculture design, forest gardens, edible landscaping, subterranean heating and cooling systems (SHCS)/climate batteries, soil building, nitrogen fixers, leveraging thermal mass, and much more. Published on Nov 13, 2013

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Updated from our previous version to reflect the growing support. As of posting, more than 100 coastal communities have stood up to Big Oil! The Obama Administration is proposing to open the

Updated from our previous version to reflect the growing support. As of posting, more than 100 coastal communities have stood up to Big Oil! The Obama Administration is proposing to open the Southeast coast to offshore drilling, threatening jobs and tourism up and down the coast and putting the region at risk of devastating oil spills like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed plan would open the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to offshore drilling. As communities, elected leaders, and impacted industries along the Southeast coast unite in opposition to this major shift in federal policy, the Obama Administration is currently reexamining and revising its proposed leasing plan and is expected to release a new draft plan in early 2016. Find out more about the potentially devastating effects of this proposal by clicking the link above. Learn more about the grassroots opposition to offshore development at http://usa.oceana.org/seismic-airgun-... Music by Adam Lindquist http://adamlindquist.com/ Sounds via Freesound.org, by the following users: nicStage, patchen, fedexico, soundmary, Corsica_S, and Loremonger, under the Attribution license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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http://www.protectourcoastnow.com/ The Obama Administration is proposing to open the Southeast coast to offshore drilling, threatening jobs and tourism up and down the coast and putting the region

http://www.protectourcoastnow.com/ The Obama Administration is proposing to open the Southeast coast to offshore drilling, threatening jobs and tourism up and down the coast and putting the region at risk of devastating oil spills like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed plan would open the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to offshore drilling. As communities, elected leaders, and impacted industries along the Southeast coast unite in opposition to this major shift in federal policy, the Obama Administration is currently reexamining and revising its proposed leasing plan and is expected to release a new draft plan in early 2016. Find out more about the potentially devastating effects of this proposal by clicking the link above. Learn more about the grassroots opposition to offshore development at http://usa.oceana.org/seismic-airgun-testing/grassroots-opposition-atlantic-drilling Music by Adam Lindquist http://adamlindquist.com/ Sounds via Freesound.org, by the following users: nicStage, patchen, fedexico, soundmary, Corsica_S, and Loremonger, under the Attribution license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

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Climate One is actively changing the conversation around energy, economy, and the environment. We invite you to make Climate One a part of your story by joining us at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.Published on Sep 9, 2015

David Crane, CEO, NRG; Steve Schmidt, Advisor, McCane for President, 2008; Brian Fagan, Author, The Attacking Ocean; Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education; Joe Romm, Founding Editor, Climate Progress; Lisa Jackson, VP, Apple, Environmental Initiatives; Jane Lubchenko, NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy; Adam Lowry, Co-Founder, Method Products; Daniel Goleman, Author, Ecological Intelligence; Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Joshua Freedman, CEO, Six Seconds; and Gina McCarthy, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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The ability to create and destroy friction in different circumstances is what defines an organizational genius. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►

The ability to create and destroy friction in different circumstances is what defines an organizational genius. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Want to be a CEO? Become a master of paradox | Adam Bryant for Big Think+ ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Q_-gIZIps When a customer, an employee, or a senior leader has set their sights on a certain course of action and then runs into obstacles that make it slower, harder, more frustrating, we call this organizational friction. Many times, that can be a bad thing, but best-selling author and organizational psychologist Bob Sutton argues that we can actually harness it to benefit us. One thing that Sutton emphasizes in his book The Friction Project is that you should first ask yourself if your course of action is the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ thing to do. If it's the right thing to do, it should happen fast and be relatively frictionless. The ‘wrong’ thing to do is often full of friction, but the right thing, although it may have some ‘constructive friction,’ is often able to push forward and make progress without harsh obstacles. Here are 2 easy tricks to solve any problem and make friction your secret weapon. Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/bob-sutton-friction/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit First Hour: Plenary Panel Flowing Capital to a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Yale Alumni in the Impact Investing Arena Panelists Tom Hodgman,

Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit First Hour: Plenary Panel Flowing Capital to a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Yale Alumni in the Impact Investing Arena Panelists Tom Hodgman, Senior Director, NatureVest Jeff Possick, Managing Director, MissionPoint Partners Shelby Semmes, Consultant, Intervale Advisors Adam Wolfensohn, Co-Managing Partner, Encourage Capital Moderator | Terry Kellogg, Managing Director, Helios Capital Ventures Second Hour: Closing Plenary Panel Moving Ahead: Change Making, Sound Science, and the Rule of Law Panelists Paul Anastas, Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment Tom McHenry, President and Dean, Vermont Law School William K. Reilly, Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund; Former Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency Moderator | Ingrid C. Burke, Dean of F&ES

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