Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Green Grass of Home

This series ended today...um...super predictable ending and not as exciting as Heart of Greed but it was a nice easy and entertaining watch. Christine Ng featured here is an interior designer, but on the final episode it seems like she was becoming more of an urban planner. The series was fairly realistic in its way to protect and preserve natural environments. It is not possible to stop all developments that require new land, so this series featured a three win solution. Christine proposes that the developer only use 5% of the land for low density residential and commercial development and leave the other 95% as green space. The developer must also invest in the green space. In the end, much of the natural environment is preserved, the developer sells the properties for more value, and the standard of living of the public is increased. Rather than just clearing off acres of land and paving concrete on top for development. Green development minimizes our ecological footprint by preserving the natural characteristics of the land and minimizes modifications.

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