What’s with all the electric scooters, skateboards and bicycles? Scooter bros suddenly seem to be everywhere in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Seattle and other cities. Some think they’re cool,

What’s with all the electric scooters, skateboards and bicycles? Scooter bros suddenly seem to be everywhere in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Seattle and other cities. Some think they’re cool, some tweet angrily about #Scootersbehavingbadly. Ride-hailing companies are also moving to two wheels. Uber bought the bike sharing company Jump and Lyft followed suit by scooping up Motivate, which operates bike sharing services in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, New York and other cities. Is an electric skateboard company next? As companies jockey to offer a suite of transportation options what is the future of urban mobility? Are these new urban toys really solving the notorious first-mile and last-mile problem? Join us for a conversation with Stuart Cohen, Sanjay Dastoor and Megan Rose Dickey about new wheels in town and what they mean for getting around town and cutting carbon emissions Dockless Bike Share 5:16 Electric Scooters 9:00 Why Scooters Now? 16:41 Zombie Cars? 20:37 Lightning Round! 21:53

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Rose is a 17 year old from Minnesota who is fighting the Line 3 Pipeline, which is proposed to go through Minnesota and indigenous territories and will threaten the way of life of the Anishinaabe and

Rose is a 17 year old from Minnesota who is fighting the Line 3 Pipeline, which is proposed to go through Minnesota and indigenous territories and will threaten the way of life of the Anishinaabe and Dakota people. As an indigenous organizer from the Isanti Dakota and Ho-Chunk Nations, Rose has been speaking publicly at high schools and colleges, as well as organizing local events to speak out and raise awareness of the dangers of the pipeline. She is also one of the Youth Climate intervenors, a group of 13 that gained full legal status and intervenorship in the legal permitting process for the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline. Her work is not limited to the pipeline in Minnesota, and she was very active in the fight at Standing Rock to fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline among many other battles.

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