Comments on: CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/09/cnu-summit-to-focus-on-reforming-transportation-planning-principles/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:45:01 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Mr. Kim Gyr http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/09/cnu-summit-to-focus-on-reforming-transportation-planning-principles/comment-page-1/#comment-44591 Mr. Kim Gyr Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:01:02 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=59521#comment-44591 As a designer with 31 years experience in England and Switzerland, I would like to refocus the debate on Transportation Oriented Development (TOD) to that of Food Oriented Development, which clearly includes transportation! Within 60 years we almost certainly will have access to a fraction of the petroleum that we currently use every day. As petroleum accounts for 95% of the energy input in current food production paradigms, what are planners doing about feeding our great grandchildren? My own thoughts appear on my website at www.greenmillennium.eu and I challenge you all to begin to plan for the post-petroleum world of the next 2,000 years, bearing in mind that THE LAST 2,000 YEARS ARE ONLY 20 TIMES THE 5 GENERATIONS, GRANDPARENTS TO GRANDCHILDREN, THAT WE HAVE MET IN OUR OWN FAMILIES (20 x 5 generations x 20 years/generation = 2,000 years!)! My heart stopped for 10 minutes (!) following a car accident in Kenya in 1980, depriving me of the abilities to walk, speak and remember, etc. In staggering, walking and jogging more than 330 miles to recover those abilities, I began to imagine a world without petroleum, back in 1981 - 82. Can you do better than my imaginings?! We must, if we expect our great great great great grandchildren to live with a fraction of the comfort that we take for granted! Thank you for your consideration! Yours sincerely, Kim Gyr As a designer with 31 years experience in England and Switzerland, I would like to refocus the debate on Transportation Oriented Development (TOD) to that of Food Oriented Development, which clearly includes transportation! Within 60 years we almost certainly will have access to a fraction of the petroleum that we currently use every day. As petroleum accounts for 95% of the energy input in current food production paradigms, what are planners doing about feeding our great grandchildren?

My own thoughts appear on my website at http://www.greenmillennium.eu and I challenge you all to begin to plan for the post-petroleum world of the next 2,000 years, bearing in mind that THE LAST 2,000 YEARS ARE ONLY 20 TIMES THE 5 GENERATIONS, GRANDPARENTS TO GRANDCHILDREN, THAT WE HAVE MET IN OUR OWN FAMILIES (20 x 5 generations x 20 years/generation = 2,000 years!)!

My heart stopped for 10 minutes (!) following a car accident in Kenya in 1980, depriving me of the abilities to walk, speak and remember, etc. In staggering, walking and jogging more than 330 miles to recover those abilities, I began to imagine a world without petroleum, back in 1981 - 82.

Can you do better than my imaginings?! We must, if we expect our great great great great grandchildren to live with a fraction of the comfort that we take for granted!

Thank you for your consideration!

Yours sincerely,

Kim Gyr

]]> By: mikesonn http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/09/cnu-summit-to-focus-on-reforming-transportation-planning-principles/comment-page-1/#comment-43851 mikesonn Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:40:50 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=59521#comment-43851 Thanks in advance for keeping us posted. Thanks in advance for keeping us posted.

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