Brownsville Herald
"Brownsville is among six cities nationwide to be selected for technical assistance with “sustainable design strategies” through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2016 Greening America’s Communities program.
In Brownsville, the program’s focus will be to help the city add green infrastructure along the International Boulevard corridor between I-69E and the Gateway International Bridge, resulting in improved storm water management and a more walkable street with plants and shade, according to the city.
The aim is to create a more “walkable, bikeable and vibrant neighborhood,” the city said.
Greening America’s Communities was created to help towns and cities develop an “implementable vision of environmentally friendly neighborhoods using innovative green infrastructure and other sustainable design strategies,” with the hope that local and state leaders will pursue similar projects on their own, according to EPA.
The program will also assist Brownsville in sprucing up its border corridor, connecting the Gateway International Bridge to existing improvements on the city’s west and east sides, supporting the small business community that uses the bridge on a daily basis, and boosting downtown’s marketability."
Now, we know that the city has made noises about implementing neighborhood recycling trash pickups, banning plastic bags at local grocery stores, baning smoking in public places, picking up cigarette butts, spent millions convincing the public to use bicycles, and partnering with local health advocates to cut down the consumption of greasy, sugary, and fattening foods.
Well, no one has to tell that man above that recycling is good. Over the weekend, we're sure that he has accumulated enough aluminum cans to stop bauxite mining in Jamaica, never mind contributing to the elimination of these artifacts of debauchery from local dumpsters.
All he needed to be the poster child for Brownsville "going green" would be if he got hold of a bicycle to take his aluminum trove over to Wilkinson Steel on 14th Street.
3 comments:
Ho hum story, Juan. We expect trash in Brownsville. It's what sets us apart from other cities in Texas!
Agree with commenter at 1:40 p.m.
"I love the citywide smell of sperm in the morning," Jerry McHale, 1982
Recycling can only take place when the citizens of Brownsville support the program....and that will not happen. Welfare communities want benefits, but don't feel it necessary to contribute of change their habits. Welfare communities don't care about taxes....they don't pay any. Recycling is a program for concerned and caring citizens....but we have few here. An ignorant public is not an environmentally concerned public.
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