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"There’s a direct connection between what we’re doing to enhance the environment and what we’re doing to enhance economic opportunity.” 
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Most people associate economic growth with expansion of the human built environment. Constructing more roads and more commercial and residential developments—“gray infrastructure”—means more jobs and a healthier overall economy.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While I am often hesitant to post stories from Forbes (they often get paid to run favorable stories about industry), this one is notable for its tone given the often anti-environmental bent of most Forbes stories.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 7:51 PM
While I am often hesitant to post stories from Forbes (they often get paid to run favorable stories about industry), this one is notable for its tone given the often anti-environmental bent of most Forbes stories. |
The report, published Wednesday by the Center for American Progress and Oxfam America, looked at three coastal restoration projects on different coasts in the U.S. and found that, for every $1 invested in coastal restoration projects, $15 in net economic benefits was created. These benefits include improved fish stocks, due to the fact that 75 percent of the U.S.’s most important commercial fish species rely on coastal environments at some point in their life cycle.
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