Bayou Preservation Association is pleased to announce the second year of The Reliant EcoShareSM, a way that Texans can support Bayou Preservation Association and offset their own carbon production at the same time. Reliant and EarthShare of Texas have launched a program that allows Reliant customers to help reduce their carbon footprints through the purchase of carbon offsets. And for each customer-purchased offset, Reliant will make a contribution to EarthShare of Texas and its participating organizations. As an EarthShare of Texas participating organization, Bayou Preservation Association benefit from this program. For more information, follow this link to the EarthShare of Texas website http://www.earthshare-texas.org/2012/02/the-reliant-ecosharesm-program-supports-texas.html or go directly to reliant.com/ecoshare.
The Bayou Preservation Association is a citizens' group whose mission is to "protect and restore the richness and diversity of our waterways". BPA facilitates collaborative projects and public awareness about the region's streams and bayous in order to foster watershed management, conservation, and recreation along Houston's defining natural resource.
Houston calls itself the Bayou City. With over 2,500 miles of waterways, protecting and transforming the bayous into "beautiful ribbons of green" makes good sense. If properly managed, they can provide recreational opportunities close to neighborhoods, scenic views to offset the stress of city living, and reduce flooding by maintaining the water-absorbing qualities of the floodplain.
Since the 1950s many of the natural streams of Harris County have been converted into single-purpose storm sewers. Many streams were "channelized" (sides dug out and uniformly sloped) and lined with concrete to increase the flow of water through them. Trees and habitats were destroyed to "improve" our naturally occurring drainage systems. Concrete bayous were constructed with no concern for aesthetics. Unfortunately, this is the image of a bayou that many Houstonians have.
BPA advocates a "watershed management" approach to flood control, which controls flooding by managing the amount of water leaving a watershed and also balances the needs for storage, conveyance, habitat, recreation and aesthetics.
From tree plantings to town meetings to policy review, BPA is working to effect responsible management of our bayous and put nature back into our stream corridors.
You can make an online donation to the Bayou Preservation Association through Network for Good non-profit organization. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of all contributions go back to the BPA.
For information regarding the security of the transaction, read this page from the Network For Good website.
BPA is a member of EarthShare of Texas. Though a payroll deduction program, EarthShare of Texas offers employers and employees interested in environmental issues the opportunity to support the BPA. Click on the EarthShare of Texas link to find out more.
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"Protecting and restoring the richness and diversity of our waterways"
Bayou Preservation Association 3201 Allen Parkway, Suite 200 PO Box 131563 Houston, Texas 77219-1563 Telephone 713.529.6443 Fax 713.529.6481 email: bpa@hic.net
