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Visions Of Green

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
2 March 2001 - 7:00am

An ambitious private fund-raising effort aims to transform metro Detroit into a region of natural with the help of a strategic plan for linking green corridors throughout the seven-county region.

"[T]he Community Foundation is unveiling its GreenWays Initiative, an ambitious 5-year effort intended as a catalyst to assist communities in financing development of their natural and recreational resources. Distinguishing the GreenWays Initiative from other ecological efforts around the region are two new ingredients: an unprecedented sum of money -- being raised from private sources -- and a strategic plan for linking green corridors throughout the seven-county region, from rural St. Clair County to the industrial heart of Detroit and as far south as Monroe.

Full Story: Visions of Green
Source: The Detroit Free Press, March 1, 2001
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