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Beautiful natural resources, developing industries in science and technology, competitive educational institutions, and geographic location make North Carolina a desirable place to live, visit and do business. They are also factors that have placed our state among the fastest growing in the nation. To meet the travel demands of a growing population and remain vital requires attention and investment in our transportation infrastructure. How we design our cities for 21st Century living and the efficient transport of goods and services are as important as the choices we make in repairing the existing infrastructure—not to mention how we will pay for it all. UNC-TV's original special, Blueprint North Carolina: Designs for the Future takes a look at our state’s most pressing concerns around transportation infrastructure and creative solutions for the future.
UNC-TV and the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University are teaming up on a project to examine North Carolina’s infrastructure needs. UNC-TV presents a Blueprint North Carolina: Designs for the Future panel discussion featuring state experts who will define North Carolina’s most pressing infrastructure needs and provide an overview of possible solutions.
In addition to this special television program, UNC-TV and the Institute for Emerging Issues will partner on two community forums and a complimentary webinar series to continue the statewide discussion of these important issues.
The production team of UNC-TV’s Blueprint North Carolina wishes to thank Smart Center Cary, the North Carolina Department of Transportation and generous individuals on the UNC-TV staff for their contributions to the creative set design of the program.
Blueprint North Carolina is a part of our larger project called Blueprint America. Blueprint North Carolina is funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Blueprint America project. Produced by Thirteen/WNET - with major funding from the Rockefeller Foundation - Blueprint America is an unprecedented multi-platform initiative that harnesses the power and reach of public broadcasting to shine an unyielding spotlight on this issue that is so critical to our quality of life and economic security. PBS’s most prestigious and most-watched news and public affairs programs, as well as several public radio outlets, are producing individual reports on the topic of America’s infrastructure.
Major support for Blueprint America is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. Since its establishment in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to identify and attack at their source the underlying causes of human suffering. The Foundation pioneered the frontier of global philanthropy and continues to find and fund solutions to many of the world’s most intractable challenges.
The Rockefeller Foundation attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st century challenges. This is smart globalization: ensuring that the opportunities unleashed by globalization are accessible to more people, more fully, in more places — and that poor and vulnerable people are equipped to seize them.
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