加载中…驱动美国国家公园前进
(2012-06-25 13:52:41)
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鉴于每年有2.75亿游客驾车或乘坐旅游巴士游览美国国家公园，如何在保持这些地方的空气质量是一项艰巨任务。请来了解美国能源部与美国国家公园管理局伙伴合作关系如何帮助解决这个问题。
当游客来到怀俄明州大提顿国家公园(Grand Teton National Park)（上图）时，他们希望看到蔚蓝的天空、原始的山景和清澈的湖泊。但是，每年驾车或乘坐旅游巴士游览美国国家公园的人数达2.75亿，如何在这些弥足珍贵的地方保持空气质量是一项艰巨的任务。
美国能源部（U.S. Department of Energy)与美国国家公园管理局（U.S. National Park Service）伙伴合作关系项目提供了十分可行的解决办法——提高全国各地国家公园内的公共交通工具的能效并使用替代燃料。
美国能源部通过其车辆技术计划中的清洁城市项目（Vehicle Technologies Program’s Clean Cities project），与大提顿国家公园、猛玛洞穴国家公园(Mammoth Cave National Park)和黄石国家公园（Yellowstone National Park）合作，鼓励使用先进技术车辆，并实施措施，减少当地空气污染、温室气体排放、降低燃料费用和减少对进口石油的依赖。这一合作不仅减少了公园工作人员的环境足迹，而且还为游客提供了抵达公园各景点的“更符合绿色环保”的交通模式，减少了游客自己驾车的必要。
6月19日，美国能源部宣布另有五个公园设施加入这一伙伴关系：谢南多厄（仙纳度）国家公园（Shenandoah National Park）、蓝岭公园道（Blue Ridge Parkway）、圣安东尼奥教会国家历史公园（San Antonio Missions National Historic Park）、金门国家游乐区（Golden Gate National Recreation Area）和梅萨维德国家公园（Mesa Verde National Park）。每个公园都与当地的清洁城市联盟（Clean Cities coalition）合作，使各自车队采用最清洁的技术。
能源部表示，电动车、替代燃料和减少车辆空转等各种做法“与公园本身一样，十分多元化”。
历史学家华莱士•斯特格纳（Wallace Stegner）过去曾把美国的国家公园形容为“我们拿出的最好设想”。能源部与国家公园管理局的合作伙伴关系会有助于确保让美国这一最好设想更上一层楼。
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/chinese/inbrief/2012/06/201206217862.html#ixzz1ymWOQTGF
Driving U.S. National Parks Forward
With 275 million tourists visiting U.S. national parks each year in cars and tour buses, maintaining air quality in these treasured places is a major challenge. Learn how a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Park Service is helping to address the problem.
When visitors come to Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park (seen here), they want to enjoy blue skies, pristine mountain vistas and crystalline lakes. But with 275 million tourists visiting U.S. national parks each year in cars and tour buses, maintaining air quality in these treasured places has become a real challenge.
One promising solution is the U.S. Energy Department’s partnership with the U.S. National Park Service to increase the efficiency and alternative-fuel use of vehicle fleets at national parks throughout the country.
Through its Vehicle Technologies Program’s Clean Cities project, the Energy Department is working with Grand Teton National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park and Yellowstone National Park to encourage the use of advanced-technology vehicles and to implement other measures that reduce local air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, fuel costs and reliance on foreign oil. The partnership not only reduces the environmental footprint of park rangers, but also offers visitors a “greener” mode of transport to the parks’ attractions, thus reducing visitors’ reliance on their own cars.
On June 19, the Energy Department announced that five additional parks have joined the partnership: Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, San Antonio Missions National Historic Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Mesa Verde National Park. Each is collaborating with a local Clean Cities coalition to choose the best clean options for its vehicle fleet.
These choices, which include electric-drive vehicles, alternative fuels and vehicle-idling reduction, “are as diverse as the parks themselves,” said the Energy Department.
Historian Wallace Stegner once described America’s national parks as “the best idea we ever had,” and the Energy Department’s partnership with the National Park Service can help ensure that America’s best idea keeps getting better.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/inbrief/2012/06/201206207775.html#ixzz1ymWPc3PU
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