Earth Stewardship – A Healthy Environment for a Healthy Community – Tom Langen, Pulpit Guest
A hundred and fifty years ago, George Marsh convinced people that human modification of the earth and waters had severely degraded the health of landscapes in many regions where humans had once flourished. Seventy-five years ago, Aldo Leopold argued that healthy communities require healthy natural environments; he proposed an ethic on how people should relate to the land. Today, people in our community are choosing to be earth stewards, conserving and improving the environmental health of their land for their family, their community, and the future; they are models for all of us on how to make impactful change locally and globally.
Tom Langen, Clarkson University professor of Biology, researches and teaches about how we can mitigate human-caused stresses on our natural environment. He is also president of the board of St. Lawrence Land Trust, which helps property owners conserve their land for the benefit of the community now and in the future.