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On a community level, getting to know one's neighbors, focusing on the local, even if one commutes to somewhere far away (and questioning the value of a job with a long community, if that job is not 'worth it,' in terms of time and personal sacrifice) is another building-block of creating a viable local community. Creating community parks, acting as a local advocate to preserve community open spaces, organizing neighborhood 'clean ups' and tree and flower beautification days, and encouraging teachers to incorporate the outdoors into school lesson plans help to foster a 'great remembering' of the natural world on a local basis.
Building a local garden, supporting local businesses that are 'green' and buying healthy food and other products that do not leave a large global footprint is important and so is helping others to do the same. Steps can be small but meaningful, even on a national level. You can contribute to Greenpeace, demand that the U.S. sign international agreements to stop the spread of global warming. Fight the injection use of dangerous toxins in the rapidly developing former 'Third World,' strive to contain the use of fossil fuels...
Even writing to congressmen and women to create a farm bill that is helpful to local farmers, rather than 'big agriculture,' demanding preservation of open spaces rather than off-shore drilling, and trying to preserve all natural places on the planet, because every part of the world is someone's local backyard, even an animal's, is possible through a series of small steps that add up over time. It took a long time to harm the planet and it will take a long time to save it, but the battle must begin now.
Works Cited
Forbes, Peter. The Great Remembering: further thoughts of land, soul, and society.
San Francisco: The Trust for Public Lands, 2001.
Works Cited
Forbes, Peter. The Great Remembering: further thoughts of land, soul, and society.
San Francisco: The Trust for Public Lands, 2001.
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