Re-Gain

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may  begin to use it with love and respect. —Aldo Leopold Earth Day is celebrating its 45th birthday this Wednesday. Since  1970, there has been enormous environmental changes due to the first Earth Day's sweeping green awakening.  In 1980, I was a national and D.C. Earth Day organizer. Today our world is in delicate balance. This Earth Day we need to be engage in our planet's life support systems - planting seeds of future prosperity. Earth Day now has to happen everyday with clean-ups, educational activities, tree plantings, and other green acts.   Each one of us can better our lives by honoring our Earth, seas, and skies.   Everyday we can deepen our connection with the natural world, the cycles of life, and the rhythms of nature. This is greatest step toward higher self care.  Each day we can show our thanksgiving for our home, this planet.  Increasing our gratitude gives us a richer...

Each year on this planet we lose forests the size of Germany. This earth needs more trees to give us new oxygen, water and share. 82 years ago Franklin Roosevelt kick off one of his first New Deal program called the Civilian Conservation Corps and its first camp was in my home town, Edinburg, Virginia.  Two million men were employed and planted almost three billion trees.     Conservation industries generate over 8.5 million jobs and nearly $1 trillion in annual revenue in the United States, and represent some of the fastest growing sectors in our economy. However, the many other forms of conservation that is not accounted for. Did you know that George Washington being our nation’s first composter (http://www.robarner.com/washington.html) and surveyed the valley were I live.  In his name a century ago the George Washington Forest was created for our benefit.   The GW forest acts as a huge water treatment system purifying our drinking water. For example, ...