State of the World 2007 Briefing - Panelist - Peter Newman

State of the World Briefing Program

Welcome: Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute President (Listen)

Introductory Remarks: Molly O’Meara Sheehan, State of the World 2007 Project Director (Listen)

Keynote Remarks: Jaime Lerner, Former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil (Listen)

State of the World 2007 Panel:
Peter Newman: Greening Urban Transportation
Janet Sawin: Energizing Cities (Listen)
Danielle Nierenberg: Farming the Cities (Listen)
Zoë Chafe: Reducing Natural Disaster Risk in Cities (Listen)
Janice Perlman: Fighting Poverty & Environmental Injustice in Cities (Listen)

Question & Answer Session (Listen)

Peter Newman
Professor of City Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Professor Newman and his colleague Jeffrey Kenworthy have compiled a set of transportation statistics in cities around the world, which they have used in Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence and other books. Peter has worked at all levels of government in Australia, and was made a Sustainability Commissioner in 2004, advising the government on planning issues. He has a Fulbright to work at University of Virginia in 2006-07, where he will be revising Sustainability and Cities.