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Green Ways to Move the Mail: A Challenge for the New Century

The Panel Discussion

















Thursday, March 20, 2008

This discussion with expert panelists from the National Postal Museum, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the Ford Motor Company focused on the environmental challenges of moving the mail. With a fleet of over 200,000 vehicles driving more than 1.2 billion miles each year, the USPS is poised to make changes that will have a dramatic impact on the environment. Panelists topics and subsequent discussion focused on practical and immediate solutions.

Panelists
Nancy A. Pope  

Nancy A. Pope Historian & Curator
Smithsonian National Postal Museum

"Charged Up: A Shocking History of Postal Trucks”

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Dr. Bert Drake  

Dr. Bert Drake Senior Scientist
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

“Can we reverse the trend of increasing atmospheric
CO2 and avert climate catastrophe?”

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Gerald Koss  

Gerald Koss Marketing Manager
Ford Motor Company's North America Fleet Operations

“From current to future technologies, you will hear what technologies may be delivering the mail in the future”

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Wayne Corey  

Wayne Corey Vehicle Operations Manager
United States Postal Service

“Learn from the past and face the challenges of the
future: the USPS point of view”

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Questions
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Answers

 

Questions & Answers

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Ford
This program is generously sponsored by
Ford Motor Company Fund








Contact:

For further information please email Program Coordinator
Aurelie Henry
at: henrya@si.edu


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