Smart Green Infrastructure: How to Grow Sustainable Cities (EnviroSpeak.tv) - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Jul 09
  

  Yule Heibel

  QUOTE:
  Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople's six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1" in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.
  UNQUOTE
  Great stuff here - fascinating to see how "silo-think" works against solving problems.

  environment ecological_urbanism los_angeles envirospeak.tv green_technologies urban_renewal

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