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October 15th, 2015

10/15/2015

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Last weeks meeting with the local community college left us excited and anxious to begin working on developing the outline for a new project. The purpose of the project will be to introduce a different approach to environmental studies in our public schools. Certainly, more time and effort is being invested in environmental education today, so what is different about our approach and why do we need to change what we are doing now? We want to start by helping young students (elementary and intermediate school ages) begin to understand and appreciate how connected and dependent they are upon their natural surroundings. Much has changed in the way we live today, but the very basic requirements of the human species remains the same. What we do to our natural surroundings we do to ourselves!

Our second step is to introduce these students to the detail and complexity of our natural environment. This is where we introduce the students to the need to observe carefully the interactions and relationships found in the unique communities that make up Nature. Our objective is to start thinking about how we belong to and are a part of Nature, rather than thinking earth belongs to us and can be manipulated to produce whatever we want.

Our final step is to begin learning what it means to live in balance with the limits of our natural environment. Today we are told that people living in the United States and Canada use 20 acres per individual, to produce the energy and produces required to support our current  living standard. If you divide the total number of acres on this planet by today's world population, there is slightly less than 4 acres available per person. We are also told the the number one environmental issue we face worldwide is population expansion. It is time to begin to adjust our demands to achieve some degree of balance before it is to late!

My background is in forest science and it seems appropriate to focus on our remaining forested lands as examples of how we must change. Population expansion, urbanization and deforestation will continue regardless of what we try to do. A new approach to managing our remaining forested lands is our only hope. It will not come easy and will require much time, but failing to start now will result in a future devoid of the human species!               
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