Timely work by Dubai's RTA to support healthy sustainable transport options-- way to go..... Soft Mobility Project to cover 3 Dubai areas this March tinyurl.com/tpdtn6h via Dubai Media Office

You Can't Build Your Way Out of Traffic Congestion. Or Can You? citylab.com/transportation…

#GDP is broken. We need a new measure for the growth of individual income (democratic), not average income (plutocratic). SFI's Ole Peters of LML offers up the math for #DDP, a revolutionary lens for #economics: ergodicityeconomics.com/2020/02/26/dem… #wealth #math #inequality

Cities need to change for people to thrive amid a changing climate grn.bz/Gdh via Green Biz

BBC News - Climate change: New rules could spell end of 'throwaway culture' bbc.com/news/science-e…

Avrupa'da Koronavirüs ile mücadelede en büyük başarısızlık: #Liderlik. Silah sanayinde güçlü görünen devletlerin konu halkın sağlığı olunca birer kağıttan kaplan olduklarını ve tek tek döküldüklerine şahit oluyoruz. politico.eu/article/corona…

Can the private sector make it a super year for nature? grn.bz/Gmc via Green Biz

Our New Historical Divide: B.C. and A.C. — the World Before Corona and the World After nyti.ms/3d9Z0UD

“why deadly diseases new to humans were emerging from biodiversity “hotspots”” gu.com/p/ddzv4/stw

You Can Help Break the Chain of Transmission nyti.ms/2x6NHw4

What You Can Do About Coronavirus Right Now nyti.ms/2wEH6cf

There are lessons in history; here is a timely one... How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic on.natgeo.com/2UIEnGH via National Geographic

"The #coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed", writes Uri Friedman in The Atlantic. Notes Jacinda Ardern "approach has been paired with policies that have produced real, world-leading results." #Covid19 theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

As public transport loses its attractiveness, Italian cities are facing two distinct scenarios. Decisio quantified them: 1️⃣Doing nothing: Rise in car use COSTS €10-20 billion/year. 2️⃣Intervening: Rise in active travel SAVES €9-20 billion/year. bit.ly/2STxgLQ

"What an astonishing thing a book is... one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person... Across the millennia,...speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you... Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic."

A clean transportation system is the prescription my patients need bostonglobe.com/2020/05/25/opi…

On belonging... "Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet."(Astronaut M. Jameson)

“In the same way as men cannot for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaninglessness in their individual lives, so they cannot for long accept a society in which power, privilege, and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria.”(I. Kristol)

جرأة الخيال في التعليم - الإمارات اليوم emaratalyoum.com/local-section/…

A conference like no other.......It is not too later to join! International Conference on Transport and Health (ICTH 2021), virtual, June 14-30th. tphlink.com/icth-2021---vi…