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Green in Color
Contributed by Sustainable Realities
Recently, I was browsing through one of our local
“Green Directories”
and was so overwhelmed by the blatant misrepresentation of
sustainability and its contemporary nickname “Green”
I nearly had to take an aspirin,
but since I haven’t had any such chemicals in the house
for over forty years
I figured I’d simply do a workshop instead.
It’s not that I know what all these great thinkers
have invested their life’s journey toward…
nor is it that I don’t appreciate their gifts or industries,
in fact, it is just the opposite.
To know that our world citizenry has finally awakened
to our planet’s issues enough to cause industry to get involved
brings only joy and hope to my heart.
But, the obvious missing piece to our world’s greatest problems
is the Nature of our Planet itself.
Intellectuals,
no matter what their fields of expertise, continue to
blend obvious truths with similarities and call it all fact,
i.e., just because sod is green in color
in no way makes it a part of sustainability.
Sod is 100% “Dead-Zone” gardening,
it feeds nothing, to keep it strong you have to poison,
i.e., kill all the other sustainable grasses and legumes
that do feed our pollinators and birds.
Lord, even when you water sod you wash the herbicides & pesticides
into our ground-waterways and mowing sod creates even
more disaster via ozone issues.
Natural clovers and grasses, created by nature,
are drought resistant, life supporting across the board,
often times medicinal for even humans and sweet to the taste
no matter whose pallet partakes of its sustainability.
Of course, sod industries aren’t going to appreciate such knowledge,
but they could actually revolutionize their thinking and create
green roofs as well as lawns from what the policy-makers call noxious weeds
such as white clover or other low growing grasses and legumes.
Remember, sod grasses were created in a lab somewhere,
combining natural species to create what would be easy to industrialize.
Sustainable…life producing…thriving…inclusive of the whole life-cycle
and all our planet’s natural expressions were never a consideration.
Don’t get me wrong,
I believe in the free market…
but capitalism without a conscience isn’t free for anyone.
Instead, we all pay the price and the end result
could just be the planet taking back control from human mismanagement
via earthquakes or volcanic eruptions or any one of her other deadly phenomena.
Please, don’t misunderstand me, I’m not trying to replace
or even repeat what's already written down…
heavens, I don’t even read books,
I’m experiential.
My information comes from over a half of a century
of living and producing, stewarding and observing
the nature of life and the planet itself.
Yes, a dozen or so years ago, my partner and I began to purposefully
research and develop urban gardens and habitats
but not from books.
Instead we took our life spans of living close to the earth as naturalists,
plant and animal stewards and First Nation philosophies
to try and restore some level of sustainability
to the life-cycles we recognized
slipping ever so slyly away.
So whether you’re new to our planet’s issues or well versed…
whether you’re wanting to see beyond the information
you’ve stored from books or you’re new to the job of stewarding life,
please join us
at the High Plains Environmental Center,
1854 Piney
(from I-25 take Hwy 34 West pass 2 lights and go North on McWhinney Dr. then left on