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Standing Up for the Roan Plateau
In a recent Men’s Journal article, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar described the Roan Plateau in Colorado as "one of those treasured landscapes of America," and "a place where we have fish and wildlife resources, beautiful streams." Yet unfortunately, the previous administration opted to lease the last untouched piece of...[read more]
A New Response to Climate Change: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
Barbara Boxer, Senator from California and chair of the Senate committee on the environment and public works, kicked off three days of hearings on the latest version of the Kerry-Boxer climate change legislation. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood, and E.P.A. Administrator Lisa...[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”