Primary Education Topic:
Aging in Community
Other Education Topics:
Business & Aging
Health & Wellness
Leadership in Aging
Legal & Ethical Issues
Technology, Accessibility & Transportation
A rapidly growing aging population and mounting concern about environmental sustainability
By Kathy Sykes and Karl Pillemer
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf,” wrote Aldo Leopold more than sixty years ago in A Sand County Almanac (1948, 1987). Leopold invested his life in observing nature. His keen appreciation for ecological systems became the foundation for his profound land ethic, which stressed taking the long view of humanity’s relationship with nature to preserve its integrity, stability, and beauty.