from the care2 news (not the front page)

http://www.care2.com/news/member/540414077/48454

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/25/HOGB6HCANI1.DTL

People will not look forward to posterity," said the English statesman Edmund Burke, "who never look backward to their ancestors." Burke's words ring truer than ever today, when many of the world's most fortunate inhabitants behave as if they were the only ones who ever mattered or ever will.

Although many of our ancestors have been pictured as heavy-handed exploiters of the environment, at least they had the excuse of ignorance. Nor were they quite as wasteful as we might imagine

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I cant say I do a perfect job of by any means of never being wasteful but I do try my best and to also educate others. As an Interpretive Ranger for the DNR at a popular state park, my job is to educate. You can find me on many days in a pioneer dress talking about the ways that people long ago made use of almost everything the consumed in any way. You should see the faces light up and the "ahha" moments when I talk about what was done with the leftovers from churning butter, or from killing a bear, etc.... I am putting in a rain garden at the park to filter runoff from our parking lots and have been searching for ways to raise funds for rainbarrels for all of our downspouts. Was even able to get a recycling program going.

We do live in a wasteful society, too bad more people can't be taught about sustainable harvests, protection of natural resources, etc.... I bet they will get talking when life becomes inconvenient and some things vanish because of waste and greed.

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