so what's interesting is if you look at our greenhouse gas he mission -- so here's my wonk slide. so this is looking at the transportation sector, so transportation alone is 46% of our emissions, and so that's a huge amount of co2 emissions coming out of the transportation sector. the red on this chart is vehicles. so while b.a.r.t. is about 5%, caltrain is about 2%, really what we're going to have to do is tackle cars and trucks. so in order to tackle the car part of cars and trucks, we need to get pea people out of their cars. and in fact, our department, the department of the environment works very hard on this issue. we are a small but mighty team in the commission on the environment. we support our agencies in another wonky term which is called transportation demand management, so transportation demand, we're managing the demand for transportation and hoping to do mode shift. so you're going to hear tonight about how we do mode shift, how we get people out of their cars. as we heard in one of the awards, one way you get people out of their car social security to make them fee

patrick: what they call rewards, or what loyalty wonks call rewards.ood didn't come around until the 1990's. marriott was always sort of known for a company that was good at executing on the business plan. starwood was always known as a creative company. julie: the integration of these programs two years after the acquisition is finally about to happen. marriott has already made some concessions like the late checkout. you have an anecdote at the end of your story involving an spger who books a lot of travel over the course of the year who was upset that he was not going to get a concession. tell us that story in brief because i think that is an interesting window into this whole process. patrick: as part of the integration, marriott created a special type of lifetime status. in other words, if you spend 10 years as a platinum member of the marriott rewards program, which is what they called their old loyalty program, you would get lifetime status. you don't have to spend 75 nights with marriott every year anymore. you still get a lot of the benefits w

sends a signal, especially to young up-and-coming trump-friendly republican political operatives and wonks. if you're a republican and you're thinking about take a job in the white house, you probably want to wait until after november because -- >> that's interesting. >> -- going through these investigations can be incredibly costly from a legal perspective. just paying an attorney or a team of attorneys to help you prepare for one, two, or three-hour testimony before a congressional committee can cost tens of thousands of dollars because washington attorneys are really expensive. and while many people in the trump administration are extraordinarily wealthy, many of them aren't. if you're in your mid 20s and you're looking at your second or third job and you have to face the prospect that you may have to testify before the committee chaired by elijah cummings or maxine waters and it could out you $20,000 to $40,000, that's going to make you think twice about potentially taking a position in the white house. >> you know, today was also just another reminder of just how much they are just te

one thing the current administration has not done is keep good data because as any data wonks know, if you don't track the data, you don't know what you're doing well or not as good so we're going to make sure we track data so we know what we're doing and we're going to make it public so we can evaluate it, analyze it and so that outside organizations can do the same because again ten years from now we're going to find new research that leads us in different directions that are going to keep st. louis county safer and help people and we have to be open minded but we have to track data nord to make sure what we're doing is effective. >> you've said justice is about consistency. >> absolutely. >> where do you think it's been lacking up to this point? >> well, i think wherever you look at the justice system, when you start changing the rules or changing the policies in particular cases, you know, that makes people start to question the process and so we're going to create policies that will be ready and available to the public on day one. we'll make sure that everyone knows what the score

bruce is one of the principals -- if you're a policy wonk, you know, as the mythical wag group. who knows about the wags here? oh, there's not-- oh, all right. so, those of you who don't, need to google it. sometime in the mid 1990's, a huge percentage of the -- i would say principal science policy individuals in the country formed a group. and i assume driven by the insight, the same one that brings us here together today, which is that we need better discussions and better input into science technology policies. raj works at the american geo physical union one of the largest societies in the united states where he runs a thriving earth exchange which is very much in the spirit that we cspo embrace, focused on making the earth a more sustainable place, and i'll talk about the articles and then open it up to conversation with you guys. so, thanks for coming. [applaus [applause] >> thank you. if i put this here, does that work better? i'm not much of a microphone holder. thank you. i assume everybody can hear me. i'm not shy and withdrawing at all. first, the drill is, i'm going

i wrote for my mother so my mother could read it, but also for policy wonks and academics because i think we all need access to this information. we want to trust the medicines we take. those medicines that can mean the difference between life and death. we need to know where do our medicines come from? why are we dependent increasingly on a single country? one of the risks and what can we do about it. i was going to bring my smart phone and my medicine bottles. one of the questions i get asked the most is how come i didn't know about this. how come i didn't know that there is growing dependence of the united states on china for so many of our medicines. if you take a look at your smart phone and you look on the back, at least mine says designed in california and assembled in china. if you've ever gotten those amber colored plastic bottles with white caps that tells you how to take your medicine, what the doses, but it doesn't tell you where comes from. there's no reason we should kno know. let me tell you about what this dramatic shift in where medicines come from looks like. one of the

first of all, as a constitutional wonk, it's the most exciting thing i ever experienced. there are 80 clauses the constitution. i teach this stuff. it is the interactive constitution in the app store or online. and the college board, i'm doing my plugs here but it's so exciting. the college board agreed to work with us to create a two week course on the first amendment that they're going to require of all five million ap students and then the next goal is to bring it not just to ap students but to every citizen in america. but the federalist society and the american constitution society love working with each other and the scholars, remarkably, this is another extraordinary thing, were able to agree on their 1,000 word statements quickly. there are only a couple cases where they had a lot of back and forth. and that's because it turns out that there is much more about the constitution than united states us than divides us. so we have this great role to play. we can fight the polarization. >> we have to move on. a quick comment? >> quick comment. the whole issue about info

it's the most exciting thing i have experienced as a constitutional wonk.ch this stuff and i don't know. it's the interactive constitution in the app store. i'm doing plugs here. but the college board agreed to work with us to create a two-week course on the first amendment they'll require of all a.p. students. the goal is to bring it to every citizen in america. i think what it shows is an incredibly exciting substantive civic project. the federalist society and american constitutional society love working together. this was another extraordinary thing. they were able to agree on the thousand-word statements quickly. only a couple of cases did they have a lot of back and forth. it turns out there is more about the constitution that unites than divides us. we have a great role to play. >> quick comment? >> quick comment. this issue about information and access, there is a faustian bargain being made here. i'm a troglodyte still trying to program my dvd. but the older presidential libraries had it right. fdr was absolutely right. he understood whether you we

this room of community organizers, union members, educators, activists, public interests, and policy wonks to go out there each and every day and take on the predatory profit quares who would tear down our democracy and public institutions for their personal gain. ot on our watch. my name is helen and i'm an at-large city council member in the great city of philadelphia. i'm also vice chair of local progress, which is a network of local elected in small towns and big cities all over this great nation that is going out there and taking on the big issues and restoring our faith in government and politics. but i come to you first and foremost as a mom of three kids that i raised in the philadelphia public schools, a daughter of immigrants, a former teacher, and a 20-year community organizer in a city that still labors mightly for racial and economic justice. we're the poorest big city in this nation but we know that poverty and e inequality don't happen by didn't. they happen when our legislature fails to fund our public schools equitablely. when we have mass incarceration that start at the e