I Want Your Vote: The Real Campaign Continues
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My Fellow Citizens, my name is Restoration Ecologist, and I'm running for office! I'm the perfect candidate for you and the public issues that are most important to you!
I'll keep taxes low!
Tired of expensive infrastructure and public works that have been consistently used as engineering solutions? Tired of high labor costs for grounds maintenance and for old-style erosion control practices? Let me install natural habitats and bioengineering to do the job! Done right, they minimize public landscape construction costs and keep that tax rate down. Let my new habitats help maintain and clean the groundwater, instead of building another water filtration plant. Let me help cool and clean the air, cutting your air conditioning needs. A green roof means green in your pocket as well as green over your head. Let my new woodlots shade your homes and public buildings, saving even more on energy costs as well as giving beauty. Let my meadows increase pollinator populations to advance agricultural production, lowering farm subsidies and increasing yield margins for farmers. Long-lived, low-maintenance habitats in our communities can allow us to cut tax rates or use the saved funds for other critical social needs. Restoration is more than habitats. It's also restoration of a sane fiscal policy.
I'll keep health costs down!
Too many sick kids, too many struggling seniors! We need a healthier environment! The huge numbers of public health problems in our cities are amplified by heat load, ozone, and dirty air. Let my Green Streets programs improve the air column and cut back on these health menaces. My green spaces and small neighborhood parks lead to stress reduction and better mental health for our communities. Tense at the workplace, intense at home? Hard to concentrate at school? Take a walk on the wild side; calm down, thanks to Restoration Ecology, your partner for a happier day at the office and at school. A healthy family is a happier family, and it starts with our local environment; I'm there to help!
I'm good for business, Wall Street AND Main Street!
Let's keep those corporate profit margins up by cutting down on facilities maintenance costs. Money saved on landscape operating costs can be fed into innovation initiatives and expanding market share, building our companies. Restore tidal wetlands and vegetated dunes and your upscale coastal developments will be better protected from storms like Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy. Your new construction of marinas, coastal resorts, and residential areas will go up in value with increased protection. Your insurance policy costs will go down. I'm the capitalists' best friend. Small businesses will profit too. Shoppers prefer retail zones that are green and lovely, that welcome people tired of the rush and crowds and cookie-cutter feel of big malls in downtown concrete business districts. Pedestrian malls all over our great country are models of successful business practices. Add bioswales with babbling brooks and leafy shade and watch those shoppers move in. Restore your community's natural beauty, then listen to those cash registers jingle as the birds sing!
I'm for social justice!
Former industrial areas, abandoned old downtowns, boarded-up storefronts: these are the areas where our at-risk populations huddle, hopeless, often ignored, and lacking any real chance of social mobility. Try a green solution: community supported agriculture, pocket parks, neighborhood greening using young people trained with salable environmental skills. Adding relatively low-cost landscape rather than new high cost construction at community centers with low occupancy can change the fate of our poor neighborhoods. Let's make them appealing again to folks wanting to come back to our old city centers and build population density where there has been blight. The pollution of the past can be remediated and replaced with modern restoration techniques. Instead of watching those decaying and empty parking lots crack and crack each year, let's plant them up and add value to our poorest inner-cities. I'm Restoration Ecologist, and I'm for urban areas too, not just the country side.
