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Arlington, VA (Vocus) December March 9, 2008
The Nature Conservancy has published a “green” economic stimulus package today, calling for funds to restore ecosystems, initiate construction of green infrastructure, and create needed jobs in the process. The package will be delivered to Capitol Hill lawmakers, agency personnel, and members of the president-elect’s transition team Obama.
“This week, Congress is currently considering how to develop and deploy technology, science and the work that will produce a sustainable long term,” said Mark Tercek, president and CEO of nature conservation. “Conservation offers one of the best opportunities to achieve this goal. By strengthening existing federal programs for the environment, we can create jobs immediately, and we can also take measures to address environmental threats at a time when they have never been more urgent. ”
The Nature Conservancy calls
that some stimulus funds to restore natural systems. Such investment provides human and ecological benefits. For example, freshwater marsh restoration can act as a natural dam, holding water during flood periods, water retention during drought and filter pollutants. Coastal marshes and oyster reefs are nursery areas for fish and land buffer against storms.
Recognizing that the impetus for a much needed investment in roads in the nation, bridges, railways, dams and levees, The Nature Conservancy is also a call to give priority to infrastructure projects that drive are compatible with nature. Invest in these “green infrastructure projects will ensure that investment recovery will minimize additional environmental damage.
environmental restoration and green infrastructure projects to create jobs for a table of Americans, including heavy equipment operators, surveyors, engineers, ecologists, landscape architects, hydrologists and even botanists working in nurseries that offer native plants and other specialized facilities for restoration.
For example:
U.S. roads are in need of repair – but instead of simply patching the old infrastructure, the government can modify the routes to reduce their environmental impact and create more jobs.
Jobs are available to watermen fishing Maryland blue crab, which was declared a commercial fishery failure earlier this fall. Now, federal aid and disaster state helps provide jobs for watermen affected more than 520, which uses them to make restoration of oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
Studies have shown that the proposed environmental restoration in Humboldt County in California has created a significant number of jobs as a result of road decommissioning and culvert replacement projects. The ecosystem restoration projects have been outsourced in large part to non-governmental entities, giving the private sector and small businesses can also benefit.
Large and small Army Corps of Engineers projects to restore ecosystems and resources engineering major construction and a sharp increase in the funding of these projects would create a variety of jobs.
“Restore our economy can and must include the restoration of our natural systems and prevent further damage to our most cherished national heritage,” said Robert Bendick, director of the Conservation of relations with the U.S. Government States. “Using conservation science and information, we can design projects spending so as to minimize impacts to important habitat and reduce the economic costs and environmental projects.”
For details on the proposals of The Nature Conservancy please visit http://www.nature.org/pressroom/news/news2930.html.
The Nature Conservancy is a conservation organization leading work across the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, conservation and more than one million members have been responsible for protecting over 18 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 117 million acres in Latin America Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. The visit to the Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.
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