All the Principal Voices of 2006, each one a world-renowned expert in their respective area, is submitting a White Paper to the Web site outlining their views in detail.
The White Papers will be printed over the course of the coming weeks.
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Geetam Tiwari, associate professor of transport planning at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, explains how too much of India's urban transport ignores the needs of the poor, who remain reliant on getting around by foot and bicycle.
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Bill Reinert, national manager of advanced technologies for Toyota USA, discusses how urbanization can bring traffic gridlock and pollution and how cars of the future could help solve this by being emission-free - and even able to drive and park automatically.
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Gordon Feller, CEO of the California-based Urban Age Institute think tank, discusses how civic leaders can learn from each other to tackle the problems caused by large-scale urbanization.
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Ricky Burdett, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics, explains how architecture and planning directly affects the lives of city-dwellers worldwide.
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Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and winner for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, explains how everyone has a role to play in environmental protection efforts.
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David Hales, president of the ecology-centered College of the Atlantic, argues that we have a duty to future generations to fundamentally change the way that we live.
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Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and head of the UN Millennium Project, argues that continued global poverty is by no means inevitable.
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Rodrigo Baggio, founder of the Committee for Democracy in Information Technology, explains how his network of non-profit computer schools has helped the lives of many thousands of disadvantaged young people in Brazil.
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Jeffrey Swartz, president and CEO of footwear and clothing company Timberland, argues that business has a responsibility to the community which should be measured in results, not just intentions.
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Victoria Hale, founder of OneWorld Health, argues that activists need to adopt the acumen and methods of the traditional business world to help tackle global health problems.
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