Monday, May 21, 2012

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This encompasses beginning small at a local level and expanding out. The key element to his idea is a sustainable city; in this city individuals would buy from local farmers thus increasing the economy of farming. As farming expands there would be a need for more workers to do farming. In his explanation he sees this as spilling over to the city people and encouraging them to become more aware and become more agriculturally responsible. Berry states, “If you want to keep your local acts from destroying the
globe you must think locally.” In Berry’s perspective you can’t have global thinking, or protect globally, if you are not acting on a local level. At first glimpse I am ready to dispute with Berry about not thinking globally. In all of my management course both at the collegiate level and on the job they all continually say to look at the big picture. All aspects of the problem should be considered and what the impact is on the overall system. I do disagree that global thinking will destroy our communities. I also find some of his sustainability ideas to be far reaching. When Berry refers to basically the city folk being forced to become agriculturally responsible, it is just hard to see someone working on Wall Street coming home in the evening to plow his fields. Even though I find those type of ideas far fetched I do agree that for “conservation” to become global it should start at the local level. If each individual would contribute within their own community the community would reap economic and environmental rewards. The best idea I can think of is recycling. At this point in time there is no feasible way to completely eradicate the need for landfills; the area used could be reduced. If every household and business would recycle the reduction of what goes to the landfill would be greatly reduced. I worked for about six months at a recycling cooperative. The job of the cooperative was to educate the public on recycling, market the recyclables, and look for ways to bring recycling firms into the communities. This was a very successful project. Several abandoned business buildings were utilized to collect the recyclables. Therefore jobs were brought in, the welfare to work program was utilized. As time went on firms began to come into the area that were able to reclaim the items and generate new products. This again provided more jobs. The first individuals that felt the effects of the process was the local community when jobs were being generated to collect the recyclables, then the state began to reap the benefits when larger firms began to come in to reclaim and produce new products. That was the economic benefit. The environment also felt the effects from less land being required for landfills. There was a push to use abandoned business or warehouses instead of using more land to generate the plants. The community also benefited in the sense of a percentage of the profits the cooperative received went to generate grants for local youth. This is an item that started locally and branched out to have a wide reaching effect on the community, state, and in some cases interstate. Even though there was also global thinking going on of what it could do for the environment as a whole the project developed from local small scale to a larger scale as time went on. Although I can’t see the Wall Street business person quitting their job to become a die hard recycler they can contribute by participating at work and home.

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