By Scott Castor
In Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address he stated, “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking
“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.”
This is our call for sustainability in our community, nation and world. Since 9/11, though we were going to war, we have not been asked to sacrifice or do anything, but, in fact, to go shopping by our President George W. Bush.
We have now been told by our new President Barack Obama, “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
Doing what we can to improve our communities is how we should start. I call to all of you to embrace these challenges and to show your commitment by planting a front yard edible
In 1944, the call to plant a Garden for Victory was answered by 20 million Americans and produced 30 to 40 percent of the fresh produce in the food supply. The
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What better example would it be if the First Lady, Michelle Obama, made it a priority to have a
Scott Castor is an “Ecopreneur” living in