The Highway of the Future with The Ray’s Allie Kelly

Biophilic Solutions: Nature Has the Answers

This week on Biophilic Solutions, we’re talking all things highway transportation. Transportation infrastructure is one of the most damaging systems on the planet, both in terms of human safety and environmental impact. What solutions could we possibly employ to transform highways, making them safer, more efficient, and carbon neutral? It may seem like a pipe dream, but many solutions are right at our fingertips.

Our guest is Allie Kelly, Executive Director of The Ray, a stretch of highway in southern Georgia that acts as a living laboratory for some of the most innovative ideas in transportation. Imagine the impact of installing solar panels on unutilized right of ways, replacing resource-intensive turf grass with pollinator plants, or even being able to charge your electric vehicle by simply driving over pavement embedded with solar-powered cells? These examples barely scratch the surface of all the incredible work that’s happening at The Ray. Listen in and learn about how The Ray is revolutionizing a notoriously inefficient system to create a zero impact, zero waste, and zero death highway of the future.

Show Notes

• The Ray
• Allie Kelly, Executive Director of The Ray
• Technology: The Ray Today
• Technology: Launching Soon
• Technology: Down The Road
• How 3 Technologies will revolutionize roads and highways (TEDxAtlanta)
• Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Advances Expansion & Modernization of the Electric Grid (The White House)

Key Words: Transportation, Department of Transportation, Highway, Technology, Energy, Clean Energy, Solar, Solar Power, Right of Way Solar, Electric Vehicle, EV, biodiversity, pollinator, biophilia, nature, net zero, carbon neutral, climate change, climate solutions, carbon emissions, renewable energy, infrastructure, highway infrastructure