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🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Laura Schewel is the CEO of StreetLight Data which provides data to help mold and monitor transportation systems to be more environmentally friendly. Check out the links below to some of the resources that Schewel mentions in this episode.
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Dream Cities by Wade Graham
Track your own transportation data: The Miles App
Driversnote Mileage Tracker
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0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:16.2 | This is Solvable. I'm Ronald Young, Jr. |
0:19.2 | We are trying to push people towards decisions that are less carbon intensive, so create less climate emissions from transportation. |
0:26.4 | Also better for expenditures of tax dollars being more wise, as well as improving safety outcomes in transportation. |
0:33.2 | For Laura Schuil, making greener decisions isn't a matter of juggling 100 little choices like |
0:38.5 | when to unplug appliances, eat less meat, or swap out incandescent bulbs for LEDs. |
0:44.7 | Choose a car that gets 50 MPG over 40 MPG. You don't have to think about it as much. So, |
0:49.4 | like, think about the big decisions that matter and, like, stop freaking out if you forget your |
0:52.9 | cloth grocery bags once. |
0:55.0 | As CEO of Streetlight Data, Shul has the data to back this stuff up. But you won't find |
1:02.0 | her post-alitizing yet. So I have a fundamental belief that informed decisions will arc towards |
1:10.0 | changes that I want to see in the world. |
1:11.6 | But we, as data providers, we have to be neutral because we're a source of truth. |
1:16.6 | Streetlight Data is a transportation analytics company, and Laura Schuel thinks how we move can be changed for the better. |
1:24.6 | My name is Laura Shul. I'm the CEO of Streetlight Data. |
1:29.2 | How to monitor and mold our transportation systems into smart and environmentally friendly |
1:33.6 | systems is a solvable problem. |
1:42.6 | I recently watched Mission of Possible Three, and Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, is a part of the |
1:48.0 | Impossible Mission Force. |
1:49.2 | And this one, he's actually getting married. |
1:51.7 | And as a result, his cover for working for the Impossible Mission Force is that he works for |
1:56.8 | the Bureau of Transportation. |
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