Are our children suffering from Nature Deficit Disorder?
Yes! Children are spending 40-65 hours a week using electronics and fewer than 1 in 5 children walk or ride a bike to school. Childhood obesity has increased from 4% in 1960 to 20% today. Children have less time for unstructured, creative play in the outdoors than ever before in human history.
How do we make a big change to our current patterns?
How do we encourage more biodiversity-friendly farms in the age of monoculture?
Why is sustainability the wise choice?
It’s a wise choice because it can be anything relating to the environment, people, health, food, air, forests, economy, businesses, education, equality, soil and land, animals and ecosystems, trash and waste, pollution, etc. Phew! That's a lot of things.
When we look at the anatomy of the word sustainability, what do we get?
So there is all this talk about sustainability, right? Well, what does it really mean? Let’s take the word, stick it under a microscope and see what we come up with when we dissect this apart.
There are so many lessons on sustainability that we can learn if we only look back at our history.
The story of how the stuff we produce and consume impacts our lives. Our alarmingly fast consumption rate will be unable to sustain itself. It already is.
Do you ever stop and wonder where your stuff comes from? Or why you can buy products at such low costs in The United States? We have dollar stores, $5 and below's and don’t get me started on the online limitless cheap shopping. Where is all this stuff coming from? Who’s making it? What is it even made of?.
Sustainability is a life skill requirement because it is needed in all facets of life for survival.
Our progress report is in! The DYGUP & Sustain program is successfully transforming students! The DYGUP & SUSTAIN Program is a non-profit dedicated to regenerative organic agricultural practices to teach the benefits of land stewardship in the Paso del Norte Region. DYGUP, an acronym for Developing Youth from the Ground Up, is available to youth ages 14-17. The SUSTAIN program targets adults over 18 and combines "Roots Of Success" Environmental Literacy Curriculum with intensive farmer training.
DYGUP / Sustain is our premier community program to give direct "working with your hands" training to local students attending Las Cruces High School. Together they learn to build, grow and operate an urban farm conveniently located to their campus. There’s over 100 teenagers involved in our program this year.
