The Alabama Experience; Natural Assets

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alabama to every kind of green wetlands we have the gulf coast and desolate place peaches in the world as never think the tragedy of it is that we don't all realize what we have is we don't over the jumble of the moment we obviously need jobs we obviously need economic progress but we need to really the economics for the foundational of being with his latest planet earth well you know as bad for you

it's a silent dance hundreds of mount vinson the lecithin a multitude of economic terrorism to sheep and that's a result of that albanian from phone while madden than inflation and grief it felt more there's a rumor the family of business is actually small towns more interested in but within a stone store warehouse oh we're really the woods you

know well like with liberty and i would throw a lot of i would take their adventures of view or more thirty years ago last box love of nature inspired him to began creating a botanical garden on his farm near the bank at national parks your shoes and ballrooms ill let him lead role in a church have clearly fears of color of course you know a ward and we will move on the xbox never had the luxury of much farmers who is assembled a leading of regional plan testimony to alabama's natural riches the state's very geological ingredients that made it home to a dizzying array of plant and animal species in fact alabama rounds in the time that

states for biological diversity i remember you might say wow alibaba lose your confession of the devil job today and what it was there that sober to being hurt that our new home in the whole huge home when they really know over half of our lady the nature conservancy as they were her life that they've made sure that we have talent they were alive but take a role model like her alabama as a significant number of people living below

it's hard sometimes to reconcile or explain why it's important that we put so much emphasis on some of your concern and efforts into preserving the metal components of our world our state if we mr hughes up our resources there were going to start this weekend helped anyone create jobs by being conscious oval across racial issues caroline home they only thing to reducing family and the reason we've invested in local gangster was so when people think about organic farming they think of it as not easy but it's way more than they are the most important thing we do is working with the soul song and we try

to keep it right this will make sure the plant attracts here in any more likely to hire only ousted in other things like making sure that we keep things out there that are trapped and inefficient that nature's and i really good sister going in there and we can not interfere with that emerged oh we should be able to grow vegetables this plant is part of a growing movement known as community supported agriculture or csa weeks of class consumers with fresh local produce and provide secure markets for small family fall is this is a family farm this is the farm that i grew up on the way it works is that the consumers purchased a share of the gardens production

in advance even planting their production so that well if they have a really good year of crops that year and everybody benefits but if it's not such a good year then it doesn't just walloped the farmer they all get you know one or two less lettuces than they had expected or something like that each week csa shareholders faith turned them into the fall to help solomon watched the week's hottest and liberate other than just full of the flowing season shareholders receive dozens of varieties of chemical free flow of his liver to their donors gave them a few hours of talks at eliminating long distance shipping this system has the added benefit of reducing energy use and pollution conventional farming is degrading the environment and

i have no doubt in their beer is a lot a capsule last alabama their whales in alabama that actually contaminated to drink from me that's the main reason that we're not willing to grow that way maureen hearing she'd focus on this group of people together as a community are taking a tangible step to protect one family farm for either one little piece at least this one little piece they can take care of near the heroine whose brain cells have been

waiting since nineteen eighteen and this episode of the human demonstrators in harmony with nature so what happens now that's right saleem or twenty acres of old farmland in a swamp that was overrun with invasive plants and hardly any wildlife and we want to see if we could be store bought whole twenty acres to the way it was originally this area now flowers and phrases as breath this week that the pitcher plant bog area were starting to restore back injury the plants and i've seen that at this point we just got this workshop greenhouse butterfly house building but their

plans war i museum and assembly teaching through kandahar province is red's an architect and sylvia we're here at the nature center and several cottages that people can rent get away this is a private endeavor nobody's helping us financing instrument that we do have a nonprofit organization by through nature association we have a hundred fifty members and they're you know in a very modestly ourselves we just want to get this thing go and that means much to us very much we've gone to a point now where the beach is really developed travis important for various services native about the beach that's what we need to be chosen how important is he and do we don't need the beach mats one of each mouse mills the dunes without the beach no thermo seal its the beach mouse just like a squirrel pfizer seeing there

isn't a certain depth on a beach mats can do that and sea oats hold the sand in place the beach man says one of nearly a hundred animal and plant species in alabama whose survival is in danger of loss of may the habitat at a cafe in a just and the south seas show visitors how to preserve natural ecosystems around them home a similar measure a half dozen native plant landscapes twenty acres of people living and working and playing in a natural environment we are human beings we need a lot of space too but why not share some of the space with wildlife scientists moved out an actor saying from california davis a fifty foot sailboat will say i grew up in california but i guess my fondest

memories in life our summers in alabama in prattville in the country at my grandmother's house in the woods and that was my disney and so this is one place we wanted to visit so if you're a business and most of the ministers and the vatican because because all that land on the right way over their best that last passover here is undeveloped it's fifty miles of undeveloped show i'm only in alabama and it's full of top gear coyote events are the alligators and five what we've done with the nature center it's just trying to promote a preservation

of our native wildlife and we think that her one way to do that is to get people involved and excited about enjoying what alabama nature has to offer the word cia oceania means the love that human beings feel for other living things i think two of the main characteristic about being human are our ability to love beyond ourselves beyond our own little genetic family of beyond her own species and the ability to reason and to think about the impact of things we do in the future and it's something that should be considered until we decide how to make a living on how to go about the way we already making a living it's sad

often they sought shallots i mean economic developments damage the natural resources of that person in nineteen seventy nine the carson founded servants in faith in technology r c fat to promote more humane development strategies and sea actions were a campus in randolph county our people from around the world of nine ways to help the pull improve their standard of living without complicated and brilliant technologies we've chosen to do not throw the baby out with about what we've chosen say that technology is viable that technology should be i use for good it's really an instrument homeless of what we need to see technology you've connected to flatter connected to nature fuel shortages caused by the fire station creating hardships for many of the world's poor there's

an extensive solo and so these human palate to pass it which are readily available to both of the pack god and their families and through that food supply that agricultural chemical solution we call these are so distraught because almost every actor who has had it so then drag out of a straw has put his finger over the end of the straw and promptly i broke through the top of the strong will as bob operates on exactly the same principle i think the service of thrones is not to deny people the benefit of more sophisticated technologies instead it allows them to control their own course of developed through technology's if they can immediately afford an

understanding and which address them will say to me the values that we hold makes the difference of the choices of the technologies which used to accept and were there the technology's there polluting our whether the technologies that are destructive of the spirit of human beings say that draws inspiration from the late great economist in cuba and his nineteen seventy three book smollet beautiful economics as if people mad she uses it is based on pit road for you to fill in the title appropriate technology an advanced so called first world setting would be different that an appropriate technology from what a view of the third world it's not anyone in the technology

but it is a way if it in the background i can see clothes on a clothesline we have camera will follow yes we have an electric your clothes dryer but when the sun shining which is a close ally of the principles of sustainability in recognition of chattanooga tennessee isn't a sustainable leading to dramatic citizen it's a sustainable development not only for third world countries it sustainable development for new york city or four birmingham alabama or for randolph county alabama appropriate technology to be appropriate for alibaba has to take into account the specific assets that we have this date's abundance of natural isaf is encouraging from the things that are relatively new

industry eco tourism caters to the public's growing interest in nature and outdoor recreation alabama is in a position probably better than any other state to really excelled in this area the good tourism because we have just been blessed with resources like like like no other state he won clemency this is not between communities who are really pretty i mean you can see here are part of ongoing training and in real israel as

part of the state of the scenic vistas glorious abuse and other landowners looking to link atlanta ga ga land so for a single a somewhat will have a hiking biking rollerblading trial will go from jacksonville of mastery to atlanta is covered with a fitted to the entire israel from project no doubt this drawing people from all over the southeast and in the country already for a new set of reasons that has to do with the environment and ecology and that's why the term eco tourism comes into play one smaller town i believe it was in florida they have found an extra i was almost three hundred thousand dollars in new money injected into the local economy directly as a result of a trial like this place a veteran women's rights you will win in rainy chilly a celebration and so in his trial has not been that

long that there have been substantial economic benefits to the area sales have increased not dramatically but look markedly lower and some of the local stores me and there's talk about a bed and breakfasts opening of understand that there's a new camp ground that are reopening i voted for president and over the weekend we got interested in it in pennsylvania where we have a lot of real tales and on i go with my family all over the place to find new ones that i'm lighting of the family of and it's and their games it's not too high because of a recent survey for kids to do you think there's a lot of interesting things to say clearly our resources have value sometimes they have more value when we don't use them a project like this if the area remains pretty undisturbed this is a sustainable industry that will continue to bring in money for ever today

i greatly enjoyed loves fake bank than weight manson best line tapping her me i'm brave mandarin i walk mandarin i mean run nine not good name in cycling clothes from election lawyer believe that all people coming out the lotteries but one of the reasons which is something that we need to develop more undoubtedly is is this just the transportation by providing an alternative to the automotive mail trail saying roman and reduce pollution

and that changing transportation problems regular trails campground just ring them since and there have been studies that have shown another council of storefronts that have been vacant for years are now one hundred percent occupied just because people are being injected into these old downtown areas primarily because the railroads used to go through those old downtown areas now we hope that people will as they're running through a walking jogging through the stop and get something to eat and rediscover how nice and some some of these old smaller towns are this trial has this pop rock the whole community that sell the night murtha that hadn't sour in five or six years right here in her name yet only surprise is this one is

it and many communities are our law and an industry common but not industry at any price and history that is so sensitive to the environment in industry the sensitive people it's often our value system has centered and on the dollar equation along one of the ancient that we have for sustainable development is a balance of factors we've been able to make it ok living farming this way but we're so much doing what we want to do it it's worth a lot of cash does not have to be doing a whole lot of other things for a living it's buffeted by us orange county who wrote into our sewer

there's great pleasure in preserving nature and it has a lot to get back to his besides keeping us alive as common as like heavy of independence self reliance and a mail by mail you fall preserve environment air is also preserve a way of life that we all treasure the wheels but he's going for the major your hand out to a family with an oily and the gunner these

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