Asphalt in example sentence

Porous asphalt, a material that we use now in most of the highways in the Netherlands, it has pores and water can just rain through it, so all the rainwater will flow away to the sides, and you have a road that's easy to drive on, so no splash water anymore.

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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 Andy and his team discovered that they were going to spend 200 million of those dollars on asphalt to surround the schools themselves.

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.

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