235) Dr. Jeralee Anderson: Realizing the future of green roads and transport infrastructure
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Dr. Jeralee Anderson is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Greenroads International, a nonprofit organization that advances sustainability education and initiatives for transportation infrastructure.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Anderson sheds light on the importance of considering the impacts of building transportation infrastructure, such as roads, and not just our modes of transport; what a gold standard green road might look like and entail; and more.
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| 1:49.4 | Even if you have a zero-emissions vehicle, your road still has a footprint. |
| 1:56.6 | Some of our research from the University of Washington has shown that one lane of road, one mile long, uses as much energy to build, which is about four terajoules, and that is as much energy as |
| 2:03.9 | 100 average American households use in a year. What we need to start thinking about is, yeah, |
| 2:09.6 | we've done green buildings now. So how do you get between two green buildings? This is probably |
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