- Follow the flow of sustainable information
- Find local businesses that are eco-friendly
- Locate important events in your community
Who's responsibility is it to educate the next generation about the virtues of environmental stewardship? Does it belong in the primary schooling system? Should it fall on each parent to impart such lessons? Or does it fall to the societal systems we build through our taxes?
The answer is no doubt all of these. A foundation of caring for the commons - the physical spaces we all communally share - should be formed at home, in the earliest years. But we wouldn't expect every parent to be an exp...
John Shields is a local resident with a passion for all that sustainability offers - a transition to renewable energy, the virtues of resource conservation, and a reconnection with nature. He writes for AOL-owned Patch.com and provides marketing and public relations services to small businesses. John is the owner and operator of full-service signage provider, Verygood Graphics. When not writing about the clean energy sector, he's researching new businesses and organizations that understand the societal benefits of ecological responsibility.