Last week the President unveiled his “Strategy for American Innovation” which details his approach to jumpstarting the American economy by investing in important areas such as clean energy, health care technology, and education. This week he hits to road in an effort to get folks excited about modernizing our infrastructure. As a climate champ, this all sounds great to us. More mass transit, more science, more education, healthier people, more clean energy—bring it on! Yet, the President’s approach misses an opportunity to highlight a critical aspect to our economic and social wellbeing. To my surprise, the word “ecosystem” appears at least twice in the Strategy’s Executive Summary! Yet, despite even using this rather green word to describe his vision for both information technology and entrepreneurial development goals, the President failed to highlight the need to invest on our real, natural ecosystems.
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