Molly Dickinson

Take Action Proposal

Why: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters,
plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. Aldo Leopold
People and nature are interconnected in a deep way. We ARE nature, therefore we need to
reconsider our impacts on the land and readjust accordingly.
Vision: Through this project, it is hoped that the community of AHS, and the lager one of
Durango, takes in to consideration the value of nature and open discussions on how both impact
each other.
Mission: To create flowers out of wasted materials specific to Animas High School and plant
them throughout the school, to symbolically represent our connection with nature.
Audience: The students at Animas, possibly the Durango community.
Action:
a) Play on the heartstrings of teachers in order to ask them for help
b) Collect materials, make flowers, plan a time to put them around school, do this, send out
survey
c) The effects of development on the land in order to build buildings and things we need to
survive are very negative to the connection we have with nature. (ex. cell phones= bees
dying=no more honey/flowers.)