Tuesday, 20 December 2011

What Kind of Legacy Do You Want to Leave?

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“For future generations” has long been the phrase used by conservationists to explain their motivation for protecting the Earth. And it’s true that most people have an innate desire to leave the world a better place for their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

But in a world full of video games, mobile devices and flat-screen, we can’t just pass a better world to the next generation and hope for the best. They must be inspired to care about the natural world, in the same way something sparked that interest in us.

Watch these videos that explore generational connections and tell us: What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? How do you plan to inspire the next generation of conservationists?

 


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Spikenard
Ecologically valuable Land to be protected into perpetuity

jovicaz50@live.com
The inspiration for my family

JAMES
I want my grandchildren to canoe my northern Minnesta lake and not worry whats in the water. I drank it a child. So should they.

Jerry Lee Mayeux
Please visit my Facebook Wall. Scroll down to: INTRODUCTION CTC123GREEN The Economic Pyramid CTC3 Google search: CTC123GREEN

Patricia Randolph
Nature Conservancy promotes TRAPPING and Hunting on 2/3 of the land it is supposed to be "conserving". I will push for the Nature Conservancy to stop allowing killing our wildlife in the cruellest ways. It is raping out wildlife that the dominant paradigm, wildlife watchers, want in our environment. As a journalist who writes for LIVING wildlife (Madravenspeak column at madison.com) I am out to expose every non-profit in bed with the killers of our commons.

Ken Christgen
By volunteering at the Runge Conservation Nature Center in Jefferson City, MO for over 19 years. Particularly working at the monthly Kids' Club meetings.

SilverKat
I am the last in a family of farmers and bankers. They viewed the land as their core asset, more precious and irreplaceable than the money in their banks. Land was treated responsibly: soil additives were shoveled out of the barn, crops were rotated, and some fields cycled as pasture. It wasn't called conservation back then, but their beliefs fit The Nature Conservancy. When the Dust Bowl and Depression ravaged both the land and the banks. it reinforced their belief that responsible land managenment based on natural cycles was critical to long-term financial stability (and banks were not to finance unsupported speculation). Today the "family farm" is confined to a lot in suburbia, but the Conservancy allows me to continue the family tradition of respect for the land.

Kedarnath Rao Ghorpade
Our rivers and natural water courses are vanishing and few which are left over are detriorating. I am committed to restoring them. I have slogan ' Nadi the Nalla Nalla the Nadi', meaning from river to drain from drain into a river. Need institutional, policy and financial support.

George Peknik, Albuquerque
There is an invasion of the Walmartians going on in Albuquerque open space that is violating the environmental legacy of Aldo Leopold and other local naturalist heroes. I have written this article, which summarizes this battle at: http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-albuquerque/wal-mart-opposed-by-many-albuquerqueans

Main solution for environmental protection.
Let us simply calculate the number of trees cut since few centuries, in the name of civilisation. It will be highly huge number. In the same way let us count the number of trees planted in the same period. The ratio comes like 100000:1. Let us calculate the amount of CO2 is released since the Industrial revolution, the resultant wars and the modern agriculture of dreadful chemicals. To compensate the cut trees and to minimise the CO2 release out of these modern technological development; how many trees are going to be planted to release enough oxygen for the life and to consume the extra CO2 released. This would be a most biggest figure. So planting, planting and planting of trees is the lone answer and which is not spoken by any body.Without intensive tree plantation, our EARTH can't survive; it is true.
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