<div dir="ltr">The Ministry for Earth Committee will be hosting a Transportation Forum at LCUUC on Sunday April 22 (Earth Day).  The forum will include a presentation by Ash 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Narayanan, Director of Transportation Policy of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We will be discussing needed changes in our current system and how to incorporate </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><i>sustainability</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><i>economy</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><i>inclusiveness</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> into our future transportation system.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Roboto, sans-serif">An event flyer is attached please feel free to distribute copies of the forum fly to others that may be interested.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><b>Forum Speaker:</b></font><br><section class="gmail-article-body-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin-bottom:50px;width:555px;float:left;margin-right:30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-body-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:30px;margin-top:0px"><section class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><div class="gmail-spb_content_element gmail-col-sm-12 gmail-spb_text_column" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;width:585px;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-spb_wrapper gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:none"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:22px">Ashwat Narayanan is Director of Transportation Policy of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin. He works on several transportation policy issues including state and federal funding, context sensitive highway design, climate change solutions and sustainable transportation strategies.  He has over 7 years of professional experience, including four years managing infrastructure projects at Atkins, Inc. Ashwat is a nationally recognized expert on transportation and land use issues and has spoken widely at conferences and on television and radio. He studied transportation engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p></div></div></section></div></section><section class="gmail-article-body-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin-bottom:50px;width:555px;float:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-left:30px"><div class="gmail-body-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:30px;margin-top:0px"><section class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><div class="gmail-spb_content_element gmail-col-sm-12 gmail-spb_text_column" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;width:585px;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-spb_wrapper gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:none"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:22px">Thank you for sharing this event notice.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:22px">Ray Grosch, LCUUC MFE Committee<br></p></div></div></section></div></section><section class="gmail-article-body-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin-bottom:50px;width:555px;float:left;margin-right:30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-body-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:30px;margin-top:0px"><ul class="gmail-member-contact" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;list-style:none;padding:10px 0px 0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:5px"><br><i class="gmail-ss-mail" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:-3px;margin-right:10px;display:inline-block;height:14px;margin-top:4px"></i></li></ul></div></section>

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