June 2011
At the end of the month, the MSRC will host "Clean Transportation Funding: The Road Ahead," a conference to reflect on more than 20 years of funding clean air projects in the South Coast Air Basin and to look forward to see how the MSRC can continue these successful projects in the future.
Tanya Love, the Vice Chair of the MSRC's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), didn't know how exciting a career in transportation could be when she first started as a consultant for the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) in the early 90s. Nearly two decades later, she's never looked in the rear-view mirror.
The movement to 'Go Green' has been sweeping school campuses in the Perris Union High School District (PUHSD.) It began with the students and their highly successful campaign to bring recycling to their schools, and has inspired the District to implement more environmentally sustainable practices with everything from cleaning supplies to how students are transported to school.
"Our students are really into the environment, and we are led by our students and official District leadership," said Anna Hamilton, the purchasing agent for PUHSD and the project coordinator for the District's new CNG facility. "Students started recycling projects in their schools, and the District wanted to take this environmental movement further. When we were buying new buses we thought, well, why aren't we trying to save the environment with that as well?"
