Tag Archives: Advocacy

Transportation for America: Townhall meeting at Google

A few months ago, you may have noticed the “Transportation for America” badge that appeared in the sidebar of the Trillium Solutions blog. Transportation for America is a coalition advocacy effort aimed at improving US transportation policy to create equitable, … Continue reading

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Two years after: Google Transit for Humboldt County

Last Saturday, I presented at the Wheels of Change conference in Humboldt County, CA by video conference. Trillium client Humboldt County was roughly the 17th area in North America to join Google Transit. Since that time, the main transit agency, … Continue reading

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How can transit ride America’s latest craze for change?

There are too many good stories on transportation, energy, climate change, the economy, how they are related, and how to intelligently connect them in new U.S. policies swirling around on the web to pretend to offer much of an inventory, … Continue reading

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Thoughts on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of organizing without organizations”

By now most people know about Wikipedia, the collaboratively-written encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Isn’t that great and impressive that millions of people who don’t know each other can create such a useful and comprehensive resource? There are many other … Continue reading

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Transit wins big in elections! (and Trillium plays a part)

It was great to see U.S. voters come out in support of transit in a big way in the 2008 election. Here in California, some notable victories included Proposition 1A, a $10 billion bond measure for California high-speed rail, Measure … Continue reading

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