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8/17/2019 PINE Presentation

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Savannah, Georgia, USA


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Preservation as a tool to reduce pover

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2015 report, 14.8% population falls below the poverty line.

This percentage equals 46.7 million people.

In the City of Savannah, Georgia more than 25% of the population fa

poverty threshold.

I would like to establish a program that would respond to an array of

concerns that directly contribute to the City’s dilemma.


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Georgia PINE Initiative


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Preservation as a tool for sustainability

Utilize preexisting and currently existing programs, developed by the

Savannah, the Federal Government, and the US Military to create a

network of various gardens to revitalize the city’s urban core.

Generate Universal Access Models for Urban Energy Gardens, Com

Gardens, Memory Gardens, Civic Gardens, and Trustees Gardens.

In creating a successful city model, local efforts provide opportunity t

and develop similar programs in other struggling cities throughout the

Strategically move forward in building a sustainable, prosperous futu

honoring and improving the ideas and successes of the past.


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Trustee’s Garden At the Northeast boundary of downtown Savannah’s Historic District lies the Truste

“At this site was located the first public agricultural experimental garden in A

Non Sibi, Sed Aliis “Not for self, but for others”


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City of Savannah Community Garden Initi • Improving the quality of life for people in the garden • Producing nutritious food • Beautifying neighb

• Creating a space for neighborhoods to congregate and encouraging community development • Utilizing

•Introducing residents, particularly children, to a variety of fruits and vegetables and encouraging healthy e

• Preserving green space • Conserving natural resources • Creating income opportunities and economic de

• Providing opportunities for residents to be outside and active • Reducing stormwater runoff and associate

• Creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy, and education • Reducing family food budgets

• Reducing city heat (heat island effect) from streets and parking lots • Reducing crime by converting empty

• Providing opportunities for intergenerational and cross-cultural connections • Encouraging self-reliance


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Emergency Conservation Work Act of 19

Executive Order 6101 Starting The Civilian Conservation Corps

"An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for oth

(1) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said Act Robert Fechner is hereby appointed Director of Em

Work

(2)The Secretary of War, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Labor ea

representative, and said representatives shall constitute an Advisory Council to the Director of Emergency Cons

(3)There is hereby established in the Treasury a fund of $10,000,000 by the transfer of an equal amount from the

of the appropriation for emergency construction of public buildings

(4)Subject to direction by the President, supplies and materials of the several departments or establishments sh

requisition of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work

(5)Reimbursement, if any, to the departments or establishments for other services rendered shall be made in acc

instructions of the President.


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Civilian Conservation CorpsProvided employment and vocational training for unemployed youths and, to a lesser extent, for war vethrough conservation and natural resources development work

Structural improvements: bridges, fire lookout towers, service buildings

Transportation: truck trails, minor roads, foot trails and airport landing fields

Erosion control: check dams, terracing and vegetable covering

Flood control: irrigation, drainage, dams, ditching, channel work, riprapping

Forest culture: planting trees and shrubs, timber stand improvement, seed collection, nursery work

Forest protection: fire prevention, fire pre-suppression, firefighting, insect and disease control

Landscape and recreation: public camp and picnic ground development, lake and pond site clearing

Range: stock driveways, elimination of predatory animals

Wildlife: stream improvement, fish stocking, food and cover planting

Miscellaneous: emergency work, surveys, mosquito control

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US Navy’s “Great Green Fleet”In 2009, Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus announced aggressive energy goals to reduce t

Navy’s consumption of energy, decrease its reliance on foreign sources of oil, and significantly increas

alternative energy. The DoN is set to be 50% sustainably operational by 2016.

Combat Capability: The mobility of our platforms depends on our efficient use of energy. Anything we

systems more efficient, afloat and ashore, enhances our ability to accomplish our mission.

Energy Security: Increasing our use of alternative energy will diversify our energy supply and protect

of energy prices and disruptions in supply.

Economy: Our Navy can help develop an alternative energy industry that is competitively priced as co

energy sources, and which can help drive economic growth.


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In 2015, the Navy implemented NEPTUNE (Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities fo

Excellence) a two-year pilot program providing funding to four universities, the U.S. Naval Academy an

Postgraduate School. Its goals are to help the Navy and Marine Corps discover ways to improve energ

generate renewable energy and implement energy-efficient technologies-while giving active-duty milita

and veterans the chance to immerse themselves in university-level research.

DLA-Energy will act as the contracting agent on behalf of the DON to procu

from new generation facilities.

“Strategically placed renewable energy can create reliable access to energy

installations and provide a myriad of benefits to the surrounding communitie


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Cuyler-Brownsville Historic Con

Starland Dairy/Thomas Square

Waters Avenue Revitalization C

Historic Benjamin Van Clark Ne

Beach Institute Neighborhood


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“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resourc

Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extrava

Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is our duty as preservationists to not only highlight the successes o

is our duty to ensure an equal opportunity for success in future gene

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