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From the Highlands of New Jersey and New York to the North
Jersey shore extends a unified ecosystem that many citizens
do not realize exists. On this program, four-time Emmy Award-winning
host Steve Adubato talks with environmental experts about
the importance of this region, and the dangers it faces.
This unified ecosystem, extends from the Highlands region
of New Jersey and New York to the North Jersey shore, and
includes New York Harbor, the Hudson/Raritan Estuary, three
other major rivers, 60 streams, and numerous islands and
watershed lands in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,
the most densely settled part of North America.
For the last few years, a group of planners, environmentalists,
and economic leaders have been working towards a new way
to conceptualize this region. The H2O Project is based upon
the proposition that, in the words of author Tony Hiss,
"the underlying structure of the region has been shaped
and nurtured by an immense, intensely vital, water-based
and water-linked bio-system that's part saltwater and part
freshwater."
The H20 project involves these fundamental goals: to help
people see this region in a new way, based upon centrality
of water in a unified, interdependent eco-system; to promote
a new understanding of the relationship between the regional
eco-system and prevailing socioeconomic, racial, and educational
issues; to help preserve and restore the streambanks through
the cities and suburbs of this region, and help protect
and provide public access to marshes, shorelines, and watershed
lands; and to take appropriate actions that could promote
ecological activities in this highly urbanized region while
protecting and restoring environmental health. The focus
of these two television programs is to educate the public
about The H2O Project and these goals.
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