Talk Notes:
- Hunts point riverside park
- Took 10,000 seed grant and took it into a three million dollar park
- Defines environmental justice as: no community should have no more burdens or benefits than any other. Sadly race and poverty correlates with poor environmental conditions.
- Talks about poor government decisions or rather lack thereof - building highways, burning buildings in red lining in creating the poor conditions.
- Physical improvements inform public policy.. we need a bottom-up approach.
- She doesn't expect the govt or corporations to do things because they're moral. She says she knows that it's the bottom line that gets people to do stuff in the end. She's concerned about the triple bottom line: govt, developer, community.
- Uses Bogota as an example: don't need to cut what we already use, just tailor what is excess in correspondance to our cars, our resources. If we don't need a parking lot, get rid of it. Etc.
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