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Litton, Eldon
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Read MoreRising up by rooting down
Rising up by rooting down Editor’s note: This first-person account by Adrian Fielder, assistant dean of instruction at Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs, was published in the May 2017 “green” issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine http://www.roaringforklifestyle.com/2017/04/30/rising-up-by-rooting-down/. The piece is on the impact of CMC’s sustainability program in Fielder’s life, and why sustainability is a crucial field of study in western Colorado. By Adrian Fielder What brought me to the Roaring Fork Valley eight years ago was a deep longing for a place to root down. Having lived in multiple countries, I had encountered many of the world’s treasures but didn’t find “home” until coming here. I landed a position with Colorado Mountain College (CMC), but perhaps it was Mother Sopris that drew my family here with her rooted, humble magnetism: the antidote for an unmoored wanderlust. In this I am like the rest of us, for we are all immigrants beneath this mountain, the difference being when each of us arrived here. During my previous travels through five continents, I learned five languages to become an aficionado of recipes and stories from every place I visited. The more I listened, the more I realized these were all part of the same narrative: the story of our human need to belong and to get along, to know where we fit in the cosmic picture. Our recipes, languages, and cultures are templates for developing and expressing our relationship to one another and the earth. What brought me to sustainability was the realization that these relationships are under threat. Science tells us we are now in the age of the Anthropocene, the first geologic era named after a species—us—for we have radically (and perhaps irreversibly) altered the physical structure of our planet. We humans, who in a span of mere centuries… Read more: Rising up by rooting down
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