Jon Warren Lentz, Inc

The Time Is NOW!

Now that we’ve stepped into a new era of imagination, it’s time for the possible to be given its due. In that world, there’s at least one more step that can be contemplated, one that would take us beyond the goal of sustainability. And that is restoration.

Imagining a future where sustainability becomes the norm, then and there (but also here and now) the project of restoration becomes ever more pertinent, plausible and even possible. Because it is necessary.

Imagine a time when mankind, in a global action, begins to carefully, meticulously, lovingly restore the lands, the forests, the waters and seas to their aboriginal, vibrant, life-supporting thriving beauty. Brown fields burst into vegetable gardens. Crumbling corals, no longer choked in agricultural effluent, begin to re-grow, teeming with fish and invertebrates. Strip mines start to slowly heal as incipient forests sprout from those wounds. Imagine when the air blown west across the Pacific is no longer laden with toxic pollution that comes tandem with mountains of consumer “goods” that no one really needs, which – disposed too soon — have too short a useful life when measured against their true and total cost.

Imagine a future where man has learned to begin living in sustainable harmony with each other and with the planet, and we then turn our attention to healing our own pasts and to restoring our planet, which we sometimes used to call, “god’s green earth.”