Create a WPA for green jobs and green infrastructure instead of just handing money over to the private sector without any demand on return such as with business tax credits, which, if extended, will cost the U.S. Treasury $890 billion between 2013 and 2022.
The argument about the use of green infrastructure instead of gray infrastructure in many aspects of DRR raises an important question: under what circumstances is green infrastructure more desirable?
The Mac application had been unavailable for nearly a year, following the shutdown of Google Reader, because it was built on top of the search giant's infrastructure instead of its own.
Memo to Griffin: #Mandela steered the armed faction of the ANC towards sabotage against government infrastructure instead of violence.
The idea of building a vast industrial infrastructure to offset the effects of another vast industrial infrastructure (instead of shifting to renewable energy) only highlights our unwillingness to confront the deeper causes of global warming — the power of the fossil-fuel lobby and the reluctance of wealthy consumers to make even small sacrifices.
Edward Glaeser, a Harvard economist who has studied Buffalo's problems, said politicians, generally speaking, were focused on the wrong priorities by pouring money into infrastructure instead of education.
"The House should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure instead of attacking women's access to health care," they said.
We saw that here in New York during the effort to meet water quality standards with green infrastructure instead of traditional concrete and steel water pollution control construction.
In a case study, a transit agency saves money in the long term by using stimulus money to buy CNG infrastructure instead of purchasing only new buses.
