Environmental Stewardship Forum

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This is the season when it is easiest to enjoy signs of life just beginning to appear. There is so much to fill the senses. The desire to do what I can to protect all the life within my realm of influence is strong, a force that drives me. The power to affect my little corner of the world - the soil, the water down the way, the way food is produced that I bring in, how our household’s waste is  managed, how resources of all kinds are used and conserved, is uppermost in my mind.  I feel the responsibility, being part of the boom, the population explosion that has helped to push the carrying capacity of our world closer to its limit. I wish I was exaggerating.  The world needs all capable hands on deck. In big and small ways, the issues stemming from the demands we have made of our planet, need to be addressed or our troubles will increase. There will be more conflict over resources of the most basic kind, more disease, more damage from natural disasters, more refugees from...