Sustainability
Watch me & many others at Greening Greater Washington
If you're awake this morning, you can watch the webcast of my keynote address at a Smithsonian Institution seminar, "Greening Greater Washington." My talk will go from 9:55 to 10:20.
After I speak, the event will continue with a series of great panels throughout the day, featuring such GGW friends as Stewart Schwartz of the Coalition for Smarter Growth, Arlington County Board Chairman Chris Zimmerman, DC and Montgomery County planning directors Harriet Tregoning and Rollin Stanley, Brookings scholar and author Christopher Leinberger, and Councilmember Tommy Wells.
The above video will show the live stream from the seminar all day. Afterward, the Smithsonian will create an archived video, and I'll post it in place of the stream.
 | David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington and Greater Greater Education. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He loves the area which is, in many ways, greater than those others, and wants to see it become even greater.   |
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by Jazzy on Sep 10, 2011 11:12 am • link • report
Next time you do an event like this you should screen the 1975 WMATA produced promotional film "Metro Here and Now" for historical perspective. The film is in the Rebecca Bean papers of the Smithsonian Archive (Box 16).
Cody Phanstiehl's personal secretary was the primary character in the film. Primary shooting was done on two separate days at Rhode Island Avenue and Metro Center. Last time I saw the film was in 1977. I have no idea if WMATA still has a copy in their record archive. I would love to have someone make a digital copy of it and post it on the internet. I and a friend of mine were extras in the film.
by San Box John on Sep 11, 2011 3:10 am • link • report
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