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Sustainable means long lasting. It means using something without destroying it. It means respect. There is no way we can keep on growing and consuming and using at the rate we currently do. Something has to give, and global climate change is an indicator that something is giving…the collapse of our environment. If you don’t care about that, you are at the wrong website. The baseline assumptions here are that things are totally out of hand, but that we can get back on track by leading sustainable lifestyles, building sustainably, and leaving this world better than how we found it. Be a part of this by posting your stories and strategies here at Sustainable Schmidt; and let’s figure out a way to build us out of this mess we are in.
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Hi Mr. Schmidt
My Nature Nexus class at had a great time touring your house.
Nature Nexus provides students, like myself, an opportunity to discover the problems that exist on our planet. All year we have studied the effects of human actions and how they impact the Earth. We study many topics ranging from the O’Shaughnessy Dam to the farmers’ markets and how they support local farmers. The class is designed to teach students three essential ideas necessary to live a healthy life: a sense of place, interconnectedness, and stewardship. We put these lessons to work on a barren 25 square parcel of land in front of the West Sunset Community Garden. Our class restored the area to what it might have looked like 300 years ago. We planted Seaside Daisy, California poppy, Dune Knotweed, and yarrow donated to us from a local nursery.
I found that a local garden helped me understand and connect top my native surroundings, and the work felt great to accomplish.
We have recently visited Helmut Schmidt’s remodeled house in the Sunset near our school. He has transformed this building into a sustainable and earth friendly house. Our future style of living thrives in Helmut Schmidt’s house; everything from the solar panels to the cork flooring this type of sustainability is necessary for our future generations. My classmates and I agreed that green architecture that will boom in the near future. One of my classmates is planning to study green architecture in college, and I plan on studying finance to help fund future green projects. Mr. Schmidt inspired me to hope for a greener more sustainable future.
thanks for the tour
sam