Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Gardening is not a rational act.
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.
Growing your own garden is way less expensive than going out shopping and eating.
This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.