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ECONOMIC DEVELOMENT DISTRICTI6 GREEN CHALLENGE GRANT PROGRAM Commercial and industrial billions waste about $60 billion per year in energy, but owners resist investing in energy efficiency technology because they don’t believe it works. The i6 Green Challengeis a multi-agency initiative to prove to commercial building owners that this technology works and help boost the companies and people who invent, install and operate energy efficiency technology. grant is for $1.3 million, split among five partners: Prosperity Partnership, Innovate Washington, South Seattle Community College’s Energy Efficiency Technology Training Program, and the Clean Tech Open Mentoring Program. The partners are piloting technology in real buildings and South Seattle College has developed a Bachelors of Applied Science that trains mid-career construction and other trades people to run these new smart buildings. The Seattle Community College’s Energy Efficiency Technology Training Program’s aim is to create an affordable educational pathway for individuals currently working in industry.
An opportunity to plug into this process is for advocacy organizations to help recruit non-traditional students or students from communities of need for South Seattle Community College’s new BAS program. Specifically, this program targets individuals currently working in the construction or building industries who are looking for an affordable educational pathway for career advancement. SSC also has a wide variety of apprenticeship programs that can eventually lead to four year university degrees. (Expand area as needed to provide feedback) HEALTH AND EQUITY PARTNERS INPUT: CULTURAL ACCESS FUNDS Arts, science, and cultural organizations provide significant economic impact to the region, and offer numerous educational and inspirational benefits. The Prosperity Partnership and a coalition of organizations from across the state have developed a proposal to allow counties to create publicly funded Cultural Access Funds. These special funds would be used to expand access for students, families and individuals to attend, participate and experience cultural organizations—from arts organizations to zoos and aquariums.
Cultural Access Washington is a coalition of 35 arts, cultural, science and heritage institutions. David Fischer (Broadway Center for the Performing Arts) and Deborah Jensen (Woodland Park Zoo) co-chair the coalition. Interested parties should contact these co-chairs. In addition, support Cultural Access Washington by signing a letter of support. (Expand area as needed to provide feedback) HEALTH AND EQUITY PARTNERS INPUT: DATA AND ANALYSISSURVEYS PSRC’s data analysis for health and equity examine how land use and the transportation system impact the amount of walking and bicycling in the region. PSRC has conducted household travel surveys in 2006 and 2014 that show walking and biking rates. The household survey asks people about all the travel they performed in a day. The survey design included oversample in areas with high rates of both low income households and walking and biking to work, according to the ACS. Interested parties will be able request data from the 2014 travel survey in November 2014, and the 2006 data is currently available. MODELING The PSRC trip-based travel model called 4k includes walk and bicycle modes to capture amounts of walking and biking by geography, trip purpose, and household vehicle ownership. Data about walking and biking rates and distances is currently available for the 4k model upon request. In addition to the 4k model, PSRC data staff has been developing a bike model that includes all local roads. This model is being worked developed along with partners from the civil engineering department at the University of Idaho. This is work that will ultimately be incorporated into the new activity based model being developed called SoundCast. SoundCast is the new model under development which will allow for greater understanding of walking and biking. SoundCast models the individual travel choices of synthetic people with characteristics like income, gender, and home location. SoundCast is parcel-based; this means it allows us to examine a finer geographic detail which is important for non-motorized travel behavior. Using the results of SoundCast, we hope to build a model that links transportation projects and land use scenarios to improvements in public health. In this way, we could measure health benefits of projects, in addition to the usual measurement of travel time changes. If time and budget allow, we will build this health impact tool, which may be similar to Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modelling Tool (ITHIM). SoundCast will be in use by Summer 2015. NEXT STRATEGIC ENTRY POINT: Interested parties could learn more about surveys, data and SoundCast along with modeling of transportation in Spring 2015. Outreach for data and modeling tools is conducted through three PSRC committees, the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) which has two sub-committees: the Model Users Group (MUG) which addresses current travel forecasting projects and meets on the morning of the RTF and the Land Use Technical Advisory Committee (LUTAC) which discusses land use forecasting and demographics and meets on an ad hoc basis. Sign up to receive Regional Technical Forum agendas and materials. (Expand area as needed to provide feedback) HEALTH AND EQUITY PARTNERS INPUT: MAPS PSRC is developing a set of web-based maps to make regional data better accessible and visible for PSRC members and the general public. One example of a data relevant to this report that is currently being finalized is the collision data. Another data set under development is to demonstrate pedestrian. STRATEGIC ENTRY POINT: (Expand area as needed to provide feedback) Suggestions welcome for additional data sets that would be of use to regional partners. An opportunity is to work with public health partners to develop regional data sets. HEALTH AND EQUITY PARTNERS INPUT: Directory: assets assets -> Northern territory of australia assets -> Number: caveat in the [Will/Will and Codicil/Estate of] assets -> Invitation for Bid Calact/mbta for Standard Floor and Low Floor Rural Duty Vehicles ifb no. 12-03 November 14, 2012 assets -> 12 Step Retreats For Everyone in Twelve Step Recovery Ratner Fellowship assets -> 12 Step Retreats For Everyone in Twelve Step Recovery Ratner Fellowship assets -> Sigaccess annual Report assets -> Central Government is expected to ask the seventh pay commission to consider merging 50% dearness allowance assets -> List of accessible executive records assets -> Emergency telephone numbers Call toll-free from anywhere in France Download 150.42 Kb. Share with your friends:
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