With support from Houston Endowment, EPA, business sponsors and governmental agencies, we were able to move forward. In 1996, Foresight issued its findings about which problems posed the greatest risk. This month after two years of hard work by many, many people in the region, Houston Environmental Foresight is poised to issue three reports that we hope will help set the region's agenda for improving this place where we live, work and play. The reports offer ideas, suggestions, and strategies. The reports often look beyond current regulatory timelines to longer-term solutions.
Some ideas are extensions of what has already begun while others are entirely new approaches.
These are the topics of the three reports that will be released soon. We've tried to summarize the recommendations, but there are literally hundreds. The simplest way is to review the goals of each report. For example, the Greenspace Work Group developed 12 goals. Each goal is followed by a series of recommendations with the rationale and supporting information.