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BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN BACKGROUND EDUCATION MISSOURI SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Graduated May 2007 B.A. in Journalism with minors in Sociology and Spanish 3.78 G.P.A. on 4.0 scale WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY SCENIC DECORATOR COURT 13 NEW ORLEANS, LA / APRIL - AUG. 2010
DESIGN ASSOCIATE PUBLIC INTEREST GRAPHICS PHILADELPHIA, PA JUNE 2008 - MARCH 2009 MEDIA LITERACY VOLUNTEER LA CASA NUEVA SANTIAGO, CHILE / JAN. - APRIL 2008 ESL INSTRUCTOR NEW ORLEANS ARCHDIOCESE NEW ORLEANS, LA / AUG. - DEC. 2007
COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST ADELANTE! COLUMBIA, MO / AUG. - DEC. 2006 GALLERY INTERN PUMP PROJECT GALLERY AUSTIN, TX / MAY - SEPT. 2006 COPY EDITING INTERN CANTANKER MAGAZINE AUSTIN, TX MAY - SEPT. 2006
AFTER SCHOOL ARTS SPECIALIST VALLEY FORGE SCHOOL FEB. - APRIL 2010, AUG. - OCT. 2010
CAMPAIGN ASSISTANT UNITED WAY NEW ORLEANS, LA / JUNE - DEC. 2007
VOLUNTEER DISPLAY ARTIST FREE PEOPLE PHILADELPHIA, PA SEPT. 2009 - APRIL 2010
INTERVIEWER CENTER FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL RESEARCH COLUMBIA, MO / MAY 2004 - MAY 2007
WRITER + TRANSLATOR EL VICENT + REEFVIEWS.COM ALICANTE, SPAIN / SEPT. - MAY 2005
GRAPHIC DESIGNER COMMONWEALTH PROPER PHILADELPHIA, PA MARCH - AUG. 2009
GALLERY ASSISTANT MUSEUM OF ART & ARCHAEOLOGY COLUMBIA, MO AUG. - MAY 2007
STUDIO ASSISTANT DAVID EAST COLUMBIA, MO AUG. 2003 - MAY 2004
COMMUNICATIONS INTERN COEPA ALICANTE, SPAIN FEB. - JULY 2005
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN CONTENTS PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY NON-FICTION JOURNALISTIC ARTISTIC FI NE FINE ARTART PAINTING ARTWORK DRAWING PAINTING ILLUSTRATION DESIGN DRAWING PERSONAL ILLUSTRATION CORPORATE SUPPLEMENTS DESIGN DESIGN PERSONAL PENNENVIRONMENT PENNPIRG IDENTITY CORPORATE SUPPLEMENTS
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Santiago’s De La Vega market is an open public space by day that turns to a makeshift domicile for the homeless by night. One resident named Cristian was born 27 years ago in the Atacama desert in Arica--“A city so dry they must make paper flowers for the dead,” he says. “But we have the most curious flowers on the graves of our dead--blue ones, even green ones,” he says as he cracks a smile. He moved to Santiago as a 15year-old who didn’t belong. “It was hard for my parents and small town to accept a boy who was more a little girl than anything.”
NUESTRA CASA 1/2 2008 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN He decided to move to Santiago, with little money and less experience. In less than four months he was on hard times, into drugs and dabbling with prostitution to make rent. Two years later he was diagnosed with HIV. “Times,” he says, “were very black.” It was his creativity that allowed him to be the vibrant person he is now, ten years later. He lives in the slums, but feels no shame. “We have fought to be here,” he acknowledged the rest of the crowd with a twist of his neck. “I strive to enjoy my life. Most of us around here do too. I sew in the morning, I sing and paint in the day. At night I spend time with friends, going out. I really can’t imagine a better life.”
NUESTRA CASA 2/2 2008 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Second lines trace their roots back to the 19th century in New Orleans. These processions are the work of crewes, or fraternal societies and neighborhood organizations that collectively provided burial services to members. The crewe is the official “main line” of the funeral and the impromptu “second line” can be joined freely by anyone who feels inspired to do so. August 29 marked the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent City. As part of a celebration of New Orleans, the Treme Crewe performed to honor those who perished in the storm.
TREME SECOND LINE 1/4 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN In recent months the raucousness associated with the second lines has attracted more attention from the New Orleans Police Department. In an attempt to control the crowds, the NOPD has started citing crewes as well as individuals participating in second lines for parading without a permit issued by the city. Lifelong Treme resident Louis Curry 65, shown ,center in photo, is one who believes that permits should not be required for the neighborhood memorial parades. Despite a failing leg, Curry made it to the procession’s start. “I need to be here, to show my support for our heritage,” he said.
TREME SECOND LINE 2/4 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN “For a century,” he said, that heritage has included impromptu second-line parades for musicians who die, “from the day they pass until the day they’re put in the ground.” Those memorial processions still occur with regularity, without permits, as is the tradition. But, increasingly, NOPD officers have been halting them, citing complaints from neighbors and incidents of violence at similar gatherings. The August 29th parade was without incident. It was peacefully escorted by the New Orleans Police Department, thanks to a newly issued permit, the result of lengthy meetings between community groups and police officials.
TREME SECOND LINE 3/4 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN The focus on celebrating the value of New Orleans’ unique musical culture has sometimes drawn attention away from other pressing issues—such as the exploitation of musicians and other low-wage workers, the conversion of public housing into mixed-use developments, or the way in which those with the power to change these situations choose to look the other way and maintain centuries of backward thinking. As we contemplate the city’s renewal two years after Katrina, we should understand the importance of tradition to residents and allow them to have an active voice in deciding how this city will reconstruct itself.
TREME SECOND LINE 4/4 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Maria and Norberto Garina met when Norberto was hospitalized after a car accident as a young man. Maria was his nurse. “I remember waking up one day, and seeing this pretty girl moving around my room,” said Norberto. “She looked a me and I knew that I’d better not get well too soon.” They were married one year later. “It’s best to be close but also stay out of each other’s way,” said Maria when I asker her what the secret to their relationship. “When he used to teach, I used to get so jealous of his books,” she said. “I also realized that if he gave them up, he would not be the man I loved.” She patted Norberto’s leg and winked.
TODO ENVEJECERÁ 1/2 2004 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Ramon and Nieves Ferrer have been together for 52 years. They attended to secondary school together in Aspe, Spain and were married shortly after graduation. Ramon worked on their farm and Nieves stayed at home with their three children and taught herself to paint. I asked them the secret to a longlasting relationship. “He is fun to be with,” said Nieves. “But I have fun on my own too sometimes” “We really like each other and always have,” said Ramon when I asked him how they had stayed together all these years. He looked at Nieves hopefully as if to seek validation that they did, indeed like one another.
TODO ENVEJECERÁ 2/2 2004 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Since Hurricane Katrina, numerous relief and non-profit organizations have flooded the Gulf Coast to help with the volume of work that must be done for the city to return to its pre-Katrina state. These volunteers have helped with everything from gutting houses to distributing resources. Many welcome the volunteers with open arms, others are wary of their motives. This photo project follows an AmeriCorps group from Montana that had come to assist revegetation efforts headed by The Green Project, a non-profit that works to strategically plant and care for plants in certain hard hit and at-risk areas in New Orleans.
VOLUNTOURISM 1/3 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN The group of Montanans, aged 20-41 years, worked each day of the month-long service project. The first day they planted trees in New Orleans East, one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Even now, only 1 in 6 homes is occupied. Piles of debris remain in the place of houses. This particular project was devised by the Green Project to provide protection from floodwaters and storm winds, as well as beautify the neighborhood. Residents noticed the activity outside and recognized the familiar AmeriCorps insignia on the shirts of the volunteers. Residents came out, not only to greet the volunteer, but also chipped in.
VOLUNTOURISM 1/3 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Artist spaces opened after the storm in abandoned warehouses in New Orleans East. The AmeriCorps volunteers cleared debris from the grounds of the now-defunct American Beauty Creamery which now serves as artists’ studio space. Volunteers also built and planted gardens. The Green Project’s Hilary Strobel, a San Francisco transplant, maintained that the goal of this project lies in attracting young and vibrant individuals to the city and keep them there. “ Young people moving here, spending money here, dedicating their time and talents to improve this city is exactly what is necessary for this city to overcome the effects of Katrina.”
VOLUNTOURISM 3/3 2007 Photo Story
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN In this more creative photo project, I focused on the inevitable memory decay that happens as we reminisce. We know our specific memories are changing even as we reflect upon them, but we rarely think of places decaying with time in the same way our memories do. I chose to make a set of my old house as I would imagine it would have decayed in the 12 years since I had lived there.
TACIT DECAY 1/4, 2/4 2007 Artistic Photo Project
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN These are toys I actually played with as a child mixed with familiar detritus. This set is in my childhood bedroom.
TACIT DECAY 3/4 2008 Artistic Photo Project
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN I trod through the back door of our house thousands of times. I placed my favorite pair of shoes as though they were stepping through the entrance.
TACIT DECAY 4/4 2008 Artistic Photo Project
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN The following photos were taken as I experimented with my Nikon FM-10 Film Camera. I played with crossprocessing C-41 film as E-6 film in the lab. When necessary, I changed the color balance in Adobe Lightroom.
EL BOLSON 2007
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FAILURE 2007
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UNTITLED 2007
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APPROACHING 2007
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This is the first of two pieces created for someone’s home. The two works are displayed as a diptych placed one above the other. The color palette was predetermined by the client, but composition was left to me.
COMISSIONED WORK 1 2009 oil on canvas 4’ x 3’
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN These paintings were intended to be placed n a room with two adjacent floor to ceiling windows overlooking a forest and the hills to the west. I chose the color palette to compliment the seasonal shades of the trees and those of the western sunset.
COMISSIONED WORK 2 2009 oil on canvas 4’ x 3’
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN I spent a month in my childhood home in 2008. The work that came from this experience coalesced around the idea that we learn a great deal from revisiting not only places, but ideas and memories. This was a map that represented the area where I grew up. The wood was salvaged from my grandfather’s barn and the colors I selected were chose to invoke a vivid nostalgia.
UNTITLED 2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 10’ x 7’
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This is another piece from the Revisitation collection. It represents the ways in which the sense of comfort we interpret as mundane in our adolescence fosters feelings of hope and excitement for the future.
UNTITLED 2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 5’ x 4’
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Installed for the show “gone but not lost” at the Tiburina Museum in Philadelphia, PA.
ANYWAY 2008 acrylic on salvaged wood 7’ x 20’
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN The first of three drawings based on the way human language not only represents ideas at face value but also represents invisible layers of meaning that are often more complex than can be understood at face value. This drawing is an homage to Ferdinand de Sassure’s description of a language’s dualistic process in which no word is inherently meaningful.
SIGNIFIER / SIGNIFIED 2010 pen on paper 20” x 16”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This is the second of the three drawings. Hegel wrote of the Master Slave Dialectic as an encounter between two self-conscious individuals who engage in a struggle to the death to enslave one another and the subsequent upset that ensues once this goal is reached. This drawing represents the how the struggle is manifested in the way humans wield language.
MASTER/SLAVE 2009 ink on paper 20” x 16”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This is the second of the three drawings based on semiotic processes. The title comes from an essay by Derrida that describes the often suppressed insight that the living present is always already marked by difference.
THE VOICE THAT KEEPS SILENCE 2009 ink on paper 20” x 16”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Illustration for a story co-written by my 10-year-old brother. The story is a rendition of the fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” that ends with the boy being 9/10 eaten by the wolf but remaining alive while the wolf dies. The boy has to wear he wolf carcass around forever as if it were a costume to show the world that both people and wolves cannot be trusted.
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF 2009 acrylic on wood panel 4” x 11”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN A physical rendering of important figures in Russian history for a history lesson I taught my younger brother.
RUSSIAN HISTORY 2009 acrylic on wood panel 5” x 10”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Illustration for a children’s story in which the land is living and sacred. Beings can make a great deal of profit from stealing small bits of land. This is a scene of one such heist that happens in the dead of night while the hills are sleeping.
STOLEN 2009 acrylic on wood panel 6” x 7”
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ESCAPE 2009 acrylic on wood panel 4” x 11”
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Commonwealth proper is a Philadelphia-based men’s clothing company that offers both custom and traditional garments. I worked on a freelance and volunteer basis with them in 2009 to revamp their image. This included a new website design, messaging strategies and event coordination. The website was designed to be simple, yet classic, with prominent eye catching visuals. Commonwealth Proper selected the color palette and told me that they would like to have a new photo or a video to display on the home page each week. This design was implemented by the web developer and ran for a few months in 2009.
COMMONWEALTH PROPER WEBSITE DESIGN 2009
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Ms. Hicks asked that I make a simple website for her to feature her artwork. She asked that the background be a painting of hers indicative of her style. I designed this for her in 2007, but she has since let it expire.
KARA HICKS WEBSITE 2008
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This is a small batch t-shirt design comissioned by KCOU radio.
MIDWESTEES T-shirt Design KCOU Radio
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN This T-shirt design was conceptualized for Commonwealth Proper’s line of branding tshirts to go into production once the line established a reputation in casual wear.
COMMONWEALTH PROPER 2009 T-shirt Design
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PENNENVIRONMENT 2008 Newsletter
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MORE ONLINE To view more of PennEnvironment’s work to secure a cleaner energy future, visit our Web site at: PennEnvironment.org/energy PennEnvironment staff meet with Pennsylvania State Sen. Pat Browne on clean energy issues.
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PennEnvironment was one of my eight clients while I worked for Public Interest Graphics in 2008. I designed quarterly newsletters for the clients to send to their members. A full copy of the newsletter can be found in the supplement section at the end of the portfolio.
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Because of chronic budget deďŹ cits, SEPTA has been shrinking since 1980. Now, with soaring oil prices generating new interest in public transportation, our state has the chance to move ahead with building new rail lines and improving speed and service on existing rail lines. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suburbs need more transit, and cities like Allentown, Scranton, and Reading, which used to have passenger rail service, need to be reconnected.
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This new route, running on existing track, would facilitate travel between Scranton and Hoboken, NJ by connecting northeastern Pennsylvania to the transit system of New Jersey. The new service would run 18 train trips per day, carrying up to 6,700 passenger trips each weekday, and diverting 2,700 car trips from the road. Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia
The Lehigh Valley saw its last SEPTA train depart in 1979 as service was phased out. Restoring service as far as Quakertown, 13 miles south of Allentown, would vastly extend SEPTA’s reach and greatly reduce congestion in the Lehigh Valley. Schuylkill Valley Metro
The Schuylkill Valley Metro, which connected Reading to Philadelphia until 1981, has received renewed interest lately for passenger service. Once built, the line would carry an estimated 42,000 to 68,000 passenger trips each weekday, of which 47 percent would be new to transit. Roosevelt Blvd. Metro
A new rail line would share the Broad Street subway line’s express tracks from Center City, eventually branching off to the Northeast in a bored tunnel under Roosevelt Boulevard. The line would mostly stay below ground until passing Blue Grass Road, after which it would be raised above street level on an elevated platform. Because the area is well-suited to such a transit improvement, ridership would be expected to rival Philadelphia’s other major subway lines at 124,500 daily boardings, replacing 83,300 daily car trips and saving 12,900 hours of wasted time each day from reduced
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congestion and faster travel. The congestion beneďŹ ts would extend beyond Roosevelt Boulevard itself onto I-95 and other nearby roads. Cross County Metro
This new line would connect Thorndale to Trenton via a SEPTA line that would traverse Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties north of downtown Philadelphia. Currently, all of SEPTA’s major transit lines feed into downtown Philadelphia; the Cross County Metro would connect many of the northern lines together, making it possible to move between outlying areas more quickly. Expanding PATCO
The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) is considering expanding its South Jersey to downtown Philadelphia service to include a line running along the Delaware River on the city’s waterfront. Ridership for the ďŹ rst phase of the project was estimated at 7,900 daily trips, at a cost of approximately $1 billion. Stops along the waterfront would greatly enhance the ability to visit waterfront attractions and employments using public transit, since the only existing service to those areas is slower bus routes. Extending the Fox Chase Line to Newtown
This would restore rail service from Fox Chase to Newtown, connecting that city to downtown Philadelphia and the rest of the SEPTA network. Extending the Elwyn line to Sylmar
This line would pass through several towns including Wawa, Chadds Ford, and Oxford, allowing them easy access to Philadelphia and the entire SEPTA network.
I developed this transit map for PennPIRG director to distribute to legislators to visually explain his proposal for a new system of transit to be implemented in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. A full copy can be found at the end of the portfolio.
BRITTANY PARIS PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY / ART / DESIGN Progress Florida came into existence in 2008 and they became my client. I worked with the director to develop identity materials such as this business card as well as canvass materials.
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MORE ONLINE To view more of PennEnvironment’s work to secure a cleaner energy future, visit our Web site at: PennEnvironment.org/energy PennEnvironment staff meet with Pennsylvania State Sen. Pat Browne on clean energy issues.
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'REAT ,AKES PROTECTION PASSED ! CRITICAL PROPOSAL TO PROTECT THE 'REAT ,AKESˆINCLUDING 0ENNSYLVANIA S ,AKE %RIEˆPASSED THE STATE ,EGISLATURE AND WAS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR THIS SUMMER 4HE PROPOSAL IS 0ENNSYLVANIA S EFFORT TO RATIFY THE 'REAT ,AKES #OMPACT WHICH WAS DEVELOPED TO ADDRESS WATER WITHDRAWALS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES h4HE 'REAT ,AKES ARE ONE OF !MERICA S GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCES AND ,AKE %RIE IS ONE OF 0ENNSYLVANIA S GREATEST NATURAL ASSETS v SAID 0ENN%NVIRONMENT $IRECTOR $AVID -ASUR h)T S IMPORTANT THAT OUR ELECTED OFl CIALS ARE TAKING THE NECESSARY STEPS TO PROTECT THIS CRITICAL PART OF OUR NATURAL HERITAGE v 4HE #OMPACT NEEDS FEDERAL APPROVAL SO 0ENN%NVIRONMENT S FEDERAL LOBBY OFl CE IN 7ASHINGTON $ # ˆ%NVIRONMENT !MERICAˆWILL BE ADVOCATING THE PASSAGE OF THE #OMPACT AS IT WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH #ONGRESS
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0ENN%NVIRONMENT GRADES 0ENNSYLVANIA S POLITICIANS 0ENN%NVIRONMENT RELEASED ITS ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD FOR BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFl CIALS THIS SUMMER AS PART OF THE ONGOING EFFORT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND HOLD ELECTED OFl CIALS ACCOUNT ABLE FOR THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL VOTES h)N ORDER TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE 0ENN SYLVANIA S ENVIRONMENT WE NEED OUR ELECTED OFl CIALS VOTING FOR THE STRONGEST ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS POSSIBLE v SAID 0ENN%NVIRONMENT $IRECTOR $AVID -ASUR h4HESE SCORECARDS ALLOW US TO DETAIL THE ENVIRONMENTAL VOTING RECORDS OF OUR ELECTED OFl CIALS v 5NFORTUNATELY ONLY TWO OF 0ENNSYLVA NIA S STATE SENATORS AND OF THE STATE REPRESENTATIVES RECEIVED AN ENVI RONMENTAL SCORE OF PERCENT 4HE SCORECARD INCLUDED VOTES ON MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION TAKEN UP BY THE STATE ,EGISLATURE INCLUDING THE FUNDING OF 0ENNSYLVANIA S CONSERVA TION PROGRAMS PROMOTING ENERGY EFl CIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY PROTECTING 0ENNSYLVANIA S OPEN SPACES AND FUNDING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 0ENN%NVIRONMENT HAS DISTRIBUTED ITS ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARDS TO MORE THAN HOUSEHOLDS IN 0ENNSYLVANIA 4HE SCORECARD AND FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VOTES MAY BE FOUND ON OUR 7EB SITE AT WWW 0ENN%NVIRONMENT ORG SCORECARD
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#HAMPIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT The following elected officials scored 100% on PennEnvironment’s 2008 Environmental Scorecard
#ONGRESSIONAL $ELEGATION Rep. Jason Altmire Rep. Chris Carney Rep. Patrick Murphy Rep. Joe Sestak U.S. Sen. Robert Casey Jr.
0ENNSYLVANIA 3TATE 3ENATE Andrew Dinniman Vincent Fumo
0ENNSYLVANIA 3TATE (OUSE Lisa Bennington Babette Josephs Daylin Leach Phyllis Mundy Steve Samuelson Rick Taylor Don Walko
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'LOBAL WARMING ADVISORY COMMITTEE 0ENN%NVIRONMENT S EXTENSIVE GLOBAL WARMING RESEARCH AND POLICY EXPERTISE WAS ACKNOWLEDGED THIS SUMMER WITH THE ORGANIZATION S APPOINTMENT TO A STATEWIDE GLOBAL ADVISORY WARMING COMMITTEE 4HE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS CREATED BY THE ,EGISLATURE AND 'OV 2ENDELL TO OUTLINE THE THREATS THAT GLOBAL WARMING POSES TO 0ENNSYLVANIA AND PROPOSE POLICY SOLUTIONS TO HELP REDUCE THE STATE S GLOBAL WARM ING POLLUTION LEVELS 0ENN%NVIRONMENT WAS ONE OF JUST STAKEHOLDERS APPOINTED TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FROM THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL AND ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC 0ENN%NVIRONMENT S .ATHAN 7ILLCOX WILL BE WORKING TO ENSURE THAT THE COMMITTEE TAKES CONCRETE STEPS TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES THAT WILL REDUCE 0ENNSYLVANIA S GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION LEVELS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE
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Because of chronic budget deďŹ cits, SEPTA has been shrinking since 1980. Now, with soaring oil prices generating new interest in public transportation, our state has the chance to move ahead with building new rail lines and improving speed and service on existing rail lines. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suburbs need more transit, and cities like Allentown, Scranton, and Reading, which used to have passenger rail service, need to be reconnected.
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This new route, running on existing track, would facilitate travel between Scranton and Hoboken, NJ by connecting northeastern Pennsylvania to the transit system of New Jersey. The new service would run 18 train trips per day, carrying up to 6,700 passenger trips each weekday, and diverting 2,700 car trips from the road. Lehigh Valley to Philadelphia
The Lehigh Valley saw its last SEPTA train depart in 1979 as service was phased out. Restoring service as far as Quakertown, 13 miles south of Allentown, would vastly extend SEPTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reach and greatly reduce congestion in the Lehigh Valley. Schuylkill Valley Metro
The Schuylkill Valley Metro, which connected Reading to Philadelphia until 1981, has received renewed interest lately for passenger service. Once built, the line would carry an estimated 42,000 to 68,000 passenger trips each weekday, of which 47 percent would be new to transit. Roosevelt Blvd. Metro
A new rail line would share the Broad Street subway lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s express tracks from Center City, eventually branching off to the Northeast in a bored tunnel under Roosevelt Boulevard. The line would mostly stay below ground until passing Blue Grass Road, after which it would be raised above street level on an elevated platform. Because the area is well-suited to such a transit improvement, ridership would be expected to rival Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other major subway lines at 124,500 daily boardings, replacing 83,300 daily car trips and saving 12,900 hours of wasted time each day from reduced
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congestion and faster travel. The congestion beneďŹ ts would extend beyond Roosevelt Boulevard itself onto I-95 and other nearby roads.
Cross County Metro
This new line would connect Thorndale to Trenton via a SEPTA line that would traverse Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties north of downtown Philadelphia. Currently, all of SEPTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major transit lines feed into downtown Philadelphia; the Cross County Metro would connect many of the northern lines together, making it possible to move between outlying areas more quickly.
Expanding PATCO
The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) is considering expanding its South Jersey to downtown Philadelphia service to include a line running along the Delaware River on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterfront. Ridership for the ďŹ rst phase of the project was estimated at 7,900 daily trips, at a cost of approximately $1 billion. Stops along the waterfront would greatly enhance the ability to visit waterfront attractions and employments using public transit, since the only existing service to those areas is slower bus routes.
Extending the Fox Chase Line to Newtown
This would restore rail service from Fox Chase to Newtown, connecting that city to downtown Philadelphia and the rest of the SEPTA network.
Extending the Elwyn line to Sylmar
This line would pass through several towns including Wawa, Chadds Ford, and Oxford, allowing them easy access to Philadelphia and the entire SEPTA network.
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The recently completed high-speed line between Philadelphia and Harrisburg increased top train speeds to 110, cutting half an hour off express routes between the two cities. Modernizing the route all the way to Pittsburgh would be even more useful, since passengers could travel across the state in high-speed trains.
Allegheny Valley Line
This new line would follow the southern shore of the Allegheny River over 18 miles, either from 11th Street or the Strip District in Pittsburgh, to Lawrenceville, Verona, Oakmont, New Kensington, and ďŹ nally to Arnold. One option of this plan would be to include a secondary spur to Oakland, another important center of employment.
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The Spine Line
The Spine Line Light Rail would involve creating a new light rail line that would connect downtown Pittsburgh with Oakland and continue on to either Wilkinsburg or Homestead. The system would reduce travel time to Oakland between 29 and 45 percent, depending on the alternative chosen, and provide a direct link between the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest centers of employment, education and culture. Pittisburgh to Latrobe
The Norfolk Southern Commuter Rail would start at the Amtrak Station in downtown Pittsburgh and end 31 miles away in Latrobe of Westmoreland County, after passing through the busy Route 30 corridor. Travel from Greensburg to downtown Pittsburgh would take only 49 minutes, saving 15 minutes relative to a car and over half an hour compared with the 1F bus route.
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