Progress In Nature Everywhere [PINE]

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Advocacy Report

HIPR 313 - Preservation Law

SCAD

FALL 2015

Paul M. Fritz


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Paul M. Fritz Georgia PINE Initiative HIPR 313

It is our duty as preservationists to not only highlight the successes

of our past, it is our duty to ensure an equal opportunity for success of

future generations. In communities throughout the United States we suffer

tremendously from falling educational standards, poverty, unemployment,

and inaccessibility to fresh food and water. As a developed nation that

much of the existing world looks to for leadership, aid and guidance, it is

our duty to provide communities a viable option to succeed and to self-

sustain.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2015 report, 14.8% of

the national population falls below the poverty line. This percentage equals

46.7 million people. In the City of Savannah, Georgia more than 25% of1

the population fall below the poverty threshold. When the number of2

individuals who suffer from poverty reaches this magnitude, entire

communities are impacted by the consequences. The effects of minimal or

nonexistent employment, lack of education, and restricted access to food

and water do not conform to traditional hierarchical boundaries of class.

As a result, these alarming poverty rates cause communities to experience

an increase in crime rates, increased incarceration rates, increased areas

"Poverty." Data. Accessed November 10, 2015. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/1

poverty/data/.

"Our Work - Step Up Savannah." Step Up Savannah. Accessed November 10, 2015. http://2

stepupsavannah.org/works/.

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of urban blight, and an overall sense of neglect throughout the populous. In

Savannah, we frequently recognize these effects.

In an effort to reduce urban blight, decrease crime and

incarcerations, and reestablish a sense of community I would like to

establish a program that would respond to an array of community

concerns, “The Georgia PINE Initiative.” Progress In Nature

Everywhere(PINE) will utilize preexisting and currently existing

programs, developed by the City of Savannah, the Federal Government,

and the US Military to create a city-wide network of various gardens to

revitalize the city’s urban core. Implementation of this collaborative

program will redevelop the relationship between passionate public

servants and the diverse citizens in the communities that build this city. In

creating a successful city model, local efforts provide opportunity to

advance and develop similar programs in other struggling cities

throughout the nation.

In 2012 the City of Savannah approved a Community Garden

Initiative, inviting citizens as individuals and/or groups, to use City-owned

property in establishing a community garden. The purpose of these

gardens by definition from the city is: “The City of Savannah recognizes

community gardens as valuable recreational and educational activities

that can contribute to community development, environmental awareness,

positive social interaction and community education. The City will

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collaborate with interested groups in assisting with the development of

community gardens on City-owned property.“3

Creating an organized network of education, training, and

employment for interdisciplinary methods and practices of nontraditional

agriculture and technological development would provide greater

independence for the citizens and governments of the nation. Progress In

Nature Everywhere [PINE] is a program to generate Universal Access

Models for Urban Energy Gardens, Community Gardens, Memory Gardens,

Civic Gardens, and Trustees Gardens. These gardens will mobilize the

rapid progression of technological and agricultural developments as they

begin to coincide with sustainable and renewable energy practices.

Utilization of historic preservation laws, methods, and practices

provide a unique opportunity for diverse communities to help our nation

strategically move forward in building a sustainable, prosperous future

while honoring and improving the ideas and successes of the past.

Throughout our recorded history we have boasted tremendous natural

resources and produced scores of innovative techniques and programs to

harness them. In order to successfully initiate a functional multi-platform

model, we must look to the solutions of our forefathers and improve upon

the notions they endured.

"Live Edit." Savannah, GA. Accessed November 10, 2015. http://www.savannahga.gov/3

garden.

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By systematically developing a networking program for

nontraditional agricultural practices and technological development, the

redevelopment of our nations most dynamic and longstanding resources,

its citizens and its land become the catalyst for further development and

use of sustainable and renewable energy and resources on local, regional,

national, and global platforms.

Savannah, Georgia provides a consequential opportunity for the

interpretation of the city as America’s first experimental garden. The4

implementation of PINE, developing a garden network, creates an homage

to the original settlers of this region. By expanding upon the ideas and

methods that helped them thrive, we acknowledge their hardships and

exemplify their successes. Non sib sed aliis, the motto of Georgia meaning,

“Not for self, but for others” embellishes an empathetic woe that sparked

innovative change for a population in need of assistance. The5

humanitarian efforts that ensured Georgia’s initial survival ultimately

developed the state as one of the nation’s most productive agricultural and

technological archetypes. Ultimately, Savannah provides an ideal starting

ground for demonstrating the use of the Georgia PINE Initiative.

"The Trustees' Garden." Title Marker. Accessed November 11, 2015. http://4

lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/MarkerDetail.cfm?KeyID=025-2&MarkerTitle=The

Trustees' Garden&CountyNameKey=Chatham.

"Georgia Historical Society." New Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed November 10, 2015.5

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-historical-

society.

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The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 is a grossly

underrepresented benchmark in the evolution of historic preservation.

The law focused on conservation of natural resources by

interdepartmental collaboration within government to educate, train, and

employ citizens. Our National Parks are one of the most longstanding and6

recognizable accomplishments of the ECW. In creating and mobilizing the

Civilian Conservation Corps, the EWC gave millions of unemployed,

impoverished citizens the opportunity to become educated, trained, and

employed, preserving our Nation’s richest natural resources. By7

improving upon CCC methods we know to be of tremendous success and

applying them to current technologies and agricultural standards; we

provide citizens with disciplined training that will secure employment in

local, regional, national, and global workforce leadership positions.

Currently, The US Navy in collaboration with the Defense Logistics

Agency are working towards sustainable operation of our National defense

system. By integrating developing federal workforces, founded in8

sustainable practices, with private sector workforces our government has

"Civilian Conservation Corps: History Articles." Civilian Conservation Corps: History6

Articles. Accessed November 10, 2015. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24899.

"CCC Brief History." Ccclegacy. Accessed November 9, 2015. http://www.ccclegacy.org/7

CCC_Brief_History.html.

"Navy.mil Home Page." DON Ushers in the New Year with More Renewable Energy.86

December 19, 2014. Accessed November 10, 2015. http://www.navy.mil/submit/

display.asp?story_id=84989.

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provided an invaluable platform to regenerate our nation’s most valuable

natural resources. Following the lead of our federal government, the

Georgia PINE Initiative allows us to educate, train, and employ citizens

providing them opportunity to succeed, and the means to self-sustain.

Fundamentally, the PINE program will strengthen the communities of the

nation’s public and reconnect them with the nation’s public servants by

providing them an equally beneficial blueprint for success.

In developing an educational program, citizens begin to gain

understanding of nature and the built environment. The impact we have on

our own environment and the effects that occur from our own existence

become more than an involuntary byproduct. By educating our people in

basic agricultural methods and advancing technological concepts, we

empower our citizens to provide themselves readily available resources to

self-sustain.

In developing a training program, citizens are guided by their innate

strengths and skills to apply methods and practices of stewardship to the

communities that strengthen this nation. By training our people in current

technological applications and sustainable agricultural practices, we

empower our citizens to generate and advance practical use of

technological and natural resources.

In developing employment programs, citizens are invited to join a

united collaborative workforce to stimulate the local, state, regional and

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national economies. By employing educated, trained, and willing

individuals and families, we empower our citizens to expand and sustain a

prosperous and fair marketplace.

During one the most tumultuous times in America’s history,

President Franklin Roosevelt said, “No country, however rich, can afford

the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast

unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest

menace to our social order.” With these words in mind, It is our duty as

preservationists to not only highlight the successes of our past, it is our

duty to ensure an equal opportunity for success of future generations.

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