LAND STEWARDSHIP VS OWNERSHIP

Land stewardship is the practice of carefully managing land usage
to ensure that natural systems are maintained and enhanced
for future generations. - www.landstewardship.org/learnabout.asp .

Early 1970's - Your narrator attended a meeting with landowners
whose properties were said to be polluting nearby oyster beds. They said,
"We own this land, butt out." I replied that I considered it presumptuous
to claim unregulated ownership of any part of this planet, and as a landowner,
I intended to be a responsible steward. Thirty years elapsed before I could
actively undertake measures to dedicate my remaining land, for truly
beneficial uses, now and in the future.

Quarter-Century Later - Ebook, "WILDEGEEST! A Search for Last Places"
describes how my farmland was poisoned by tenant farmers, steeped in
chemicals for growing cotton, while I was away. Much of the nearby land
had been taken over by developers. There was an obvious obligation to protect
nearby residents from uncontrolled toxic chemicals.

Pesticide-free EarthWise Farm was started and then became part of
WILDEGEEST FOUNDATION where its application, as a producer of ingredients
required for longer, healthier lives, is closely associated with the long range
research efforts of the foundation: - To promote mature lifestyles for persons
over fifty to encourage an active citizen's role throughout their aging process,
and to further investigate fish oils and the proper use of fishery products,
as an essential part of the whole.

NO CUTOFF DATE - Come see! How the land has benefitted from our soil
improvement efforts, several hundred "hedgerow" trees have doubled in size,
and the buildings are designed for present and future investigations.

WILDEGEEST FOUNDATION - www.WildegeestFoundation.org
for Q's&A's - wildegeest@starfishnet.com

THE ME ME ME SOCIETY

"Herded by fear and greed" by Jessica Irvine, July 25, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald, Business Day.

Concerning the global meltdown, she notes : The premise of mainstream economics --that we're rational beings making informed calculations about how to increase our utility - has fallen spectacularly short.

She quotes J. M. Keynes who was the first to document the animal spirits and herd instincts that drive human behavior, - "which turns out to be rather messy". During the great depression,
in 1936, he wrote that people make their decisions "not as the outcome of weighted average of
quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities, but on ANIMAL SPIRITS -
a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction.

Were ANIMAL SPIRITS the guidelines for our economists and budget directors when we threw away our wooden guns, and entered World War II with its staggering costs? But is it fair to compare a wartime threat with present-day threats to our society?

Yes, if the threat is of the same magnitude when measured in "body counts". As David A. Kessler, MD, author of "The End of Overeating. Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite" has pointed out, "Two out of three American adults are now either overweight or obese. Excess weight increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer (of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, and uterus), stroke, gallbladder disease, arthritis, and more," and then he explains how the food industry leads us to overeat.

We could say more, about how greed and self-interest is causing neglect of millions of needy persons, but space is limited.

WILDEGEEST FOUNDATION - www.WildegeestFoundation.org