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Kate Orff on How Humans Can Rebuild Natural Systems

At a Distance

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New York City - D Paving Is a Big One

We need to get creative with removals and subtractions explosions, however violent. i feel like actively depaving, cutting severing some of these blocks in our water system an our water bodies is mission critical. We've changed the flushing river into essentially a lake by cutting it off. And then you're surprised when there's two feet of water in flushing bay i a heavy rainstorm. The idea of trying to just unlock dams where we can in n ar rivers. It's an incredible thing. Steel head were once massively abundant in this water body. So if you think of something that was historically as abundant as the steel head or the delta smelt, and you think that

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