Asphalt
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And Andy and his team discovered that they were going to spend 200 million of those dollars on
asphalt
to surround the schools themselves.
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Now most environmentalists don't say growth is good, because, in our lexicon,
asphalt
is two words: assigning blame.
But if we look at
asphalt
as our growth, then we realize that all we're doing is destroying the planetary's fundamental underlying operating system.
And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that
asphalt
with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.
So ultimately, 20 million square feet of
asphalt
was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools system employees as well.
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