{"id":1915,"date":"2022-03-09T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainabledriftlessmag.com\/sdmunicdn\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:17:31","slug":"sus-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainabledriftlessmag.com\/sdmunicdn\/sus-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Driftless Seasons:  To Sustain or Seek Balance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">maller communities of hunter and gathers, then larger communities of towns and cities seeking Sustainability or \u201cto sustain\u201d is the ability to continue over a prolonged period of time.\u00a0 Do we have what it takes?\u00a0 Is there enough time and will to correct the course to achieve sustainability?\u00a0 Do we individually and societally have a collective plan to make a difference?\u00a0 These are the great questions of our time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the global public discourse of nations, there are three broad dimensions of sustainability policies: the environment, economics, and social issues concerning the ability to continue over time. This global discourse should not be lost to those individuals and communities that\u00a0 live in hilltops, valleys, and bottomlands of the Driftless Area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The question is:\u00a0 Are we seeking a balance of the environment, the economics of life, and social interactions found in this unique landscape?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The soil, water, and biota, we see and do not see, added to the non-living elements of the earth which collectively are the \u201cland\u201d that is the base for sustainability. The land has been supporting humanity in the Driftless Area for at least fifteen thousand years. During this interval, the land has supported us all over these thousands of years, and continues to as a result of the introduction, and advance we know now, is that of agriculture.\u00a0 Today, we are experiencing an even more diverse culture with an increasing population that is surviving on the economics of new knowledge and technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But is this sustainable?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Over time with this increased knowledge, we have created both laws and ethical standards to protect the land of the hilltops, valleys, and bottomlands of the Driftless and beyond. But are we making progress overall \u2026 for the prolonged period \u2026 beyond our children and grandchildren\u2019s lives? Are we acting to achieve sustainability? <i>Have we found a balance that allows sustainability?<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Humanitarians and scientists have realized for many decades that the products that define the standard of living of our western culture are destroying Planet Earth. Humanity is consuming and depleting the land and its resources of Planet Earth at an accelerating rapid rate that is not sustainable. Laws do not seem to stop this pattern. Social norms of wants and what makes a \u201cgood life\u201d and those perceived needs accelerate our economic depletion of the land and its ability to provide for us by nurturing the biota and health of this interconnectedness.\u00a0 Without that basic health, we are lost.\u00a0 Technology seems to be chasing capitalism more than solving environmental problems. So, what are the actions needed to increase our sustainability on the land?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We need a change in the way we live and treat the land. This must come through with actions of the land ethic that was expressed over 75 years ago \u2026 in the Driftless Area \u2026 specified in the pages of the <i>Sand County Almanac <\/i>as expressed by naturalist \u2026 and now futurist \u2026 Aldo Leopold.\u00a0 Regarding the treatment of the land, he stated \u201c <b>Something is right when it preserves the ecological integrity, aesthetics, and is economically expedient, to do otherwise it is not\u201d<\/b>.\u00a0 Is this not the basis for sustainability in the Driftless and the entire world? <strong>Can we just\u00a0 make this standard our guide in the Driftless\u2013learn from others that ARE doing much more, to expedite these goals, and reject the idea that just because we want sustainability, we also must take action in our own lives, communities, and regions to do so?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The ecological integrity of the land still existed just two hundred years ago. The forest of the hillsides, the prairies of the hilltops, slopes and valleys, and the water that flowed through all supported all \u2026 all in balance \u2026 supporting each other. There was a flow of energy and nutrients that all plants, animals, and biota not seen by human vision, needed and utilized. All used and consumed only what they needed, including the <i>homo sapiens.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The same scenario <i>can<\/i> happen again \u2026 and flourish, utilizing modern man\u2019s ingenuity and applied technology. We must recognize that the progress of agriculture and urban communities have disrupted the ecological integrity and take action to create again to rebalance this reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The aesthetics of the land was also intact until after this time. Ironically, Nature still holds the keys to the solutions of survival, and the appeal of the aesthetics of nature today, but we need to be aware of how we have lost it and take action to restore and protect it where we can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The colors of the forest, prairies and lowlands of\u00a0 river bottoms still change with the seasons; yet, the natural colors of these plant communities have been lost to agriculture, invasives, and development.\u00a0 How can we go forward to restore the aesthetics of these plant communities and reduce human growth effects? <strong>The Driftless Area is a leader in approaching agriculture and nature preservation sustainably \u2013and that can go even a longer way in restoring ecological integrity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Small community services and commerce activities are moving to tourism and recreational development of the land that are affecting the peacefulness of the serenity of the remote hills that are the signature of the Driftless. Sounds and sites of nature are turning to the noise and ugliness of development and sport without guidance. What happened to the swishing sound of a rake or broom?\u00a0 The leaf blower has replaced these gentle swishes with noise that can be heard a quarter mile away, and the questions begs, why? The world of motors has made life easier, but in our laziness,\u00a0 we have choked the serenity out of why we loved this place in the first place.\u00a0<strong> Addressing that systemic continuum of \u201claziness\u201d affects us all\u2013our collective will to sustainability support our communities beyond ourselves, our childrens\u2019 ability to survive, our own health\u2013and yes\u2013saving our larger home\u2013the planet..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And then, what does economic expediency mean? This is a question Leopold legacy scholars could only speculate on. Yet years of studying Leopold\u2019s life and reading <i>Sand County Almanac<\/i>, (published originally by Oxford University Press in 1949) over and over it has become clear to me. If we look at the economics of ecological relationships, nature over millions of years has perfected the flow of biological, chemical, and physical interactions between all organisms into a balance and flow of energy that functions smoothly. With the increase in human disturbances this \u201cbalance\u201d becomes disrupted. Understanding these interrelationships of biota, let alone correct them, would take several human life times of scientific study of even a single interaction of one organism. Can technology intervene for us to learn fast enough, take action based on facts and data, and to change and rebalance?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As for Leopold, through his life he believed in the great powers of observation of plant and animal community interactions which is the empirical basis to begin understanding of ecological scientific inquiry. Leopold believed one should quickly make the correction in the conservation management of the plant\/animal disturbance and observe the results. If the correction did not create observable results over an abbreviated period, try another solution. If the time of the disturbance were too long before correction the original disturbance would cascade into greater ecological problems. Bottom line?\u00a0 The economics of evolution of nature has self-corrections if humanity lets it happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So,\u00a0 humanity seeks a return to balance that was there in the first place. We just need to read the land, its communities \u2026 and of course the Driftless \u2026 with the intelligence that nature has\u00a0 given humanity through a half million years of emergence from our origins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>\u2013Rand Atkinson,\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>Author:\u00a0 REVOLT,\u00a0 Practical Ecology to Save Planet Earth for our Children<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>Purchase via:\u00a0 A. L. Ferndock Publishing LLC<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">3894 Star Lake Road, Star Lake WI\u00a0 54561, Phone 608-778-1131\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">raFerndockPublishing@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smaller communities of hunter and gathers, then larger communities of towns and cities seeking Sustainability or \u201cto sustain\u201d is the ability to continue over a prolonged period of time.\u00a0 Do we have what it takes?\u00a0 Is there enough time and will to correct the course to achieve sustainability?\u00a0 Do we<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledriftlessmag.com\/sdmunicdn\/sus-seek\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-steadm2","post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seasonal-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Driftless Seasons: To Sustain or Seek Balance? 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