A Nice Place to Live

About this episode

Bobbie Emery discusses sustainable farming with third graders, emphasizing the importance of caring for the planet.

Despite my very best efforts to get out of it, last week I found myself talking to a large group of third graders about “Sustainable Farming.” I was pleasantly surprised by how well it went, but then again, my expectations had been rock bottom. When I asked the kids what sustainable meant to them, one boy said, “It’s having a nice place to live.” I agreed and said “Yes, in a way it is. I think that planet Earth is a very nice place to live. In fact, I feel lucky to live on such a nice planet and I’d like to take good care of it so when it’s my time to pass it on to you, it’s just as nice as when I found it - if not better. And I hope that when it’s your time to be in charge of this planet, that you take good care of it too.” I told them that my definition of “sustainable” is the ability to keep doing something. I explained “After I get a good night’s sleep and a healthy breakfast, I’m full of energy and can work really hard and get a lot of stuff done. But by noon I start to slow down and if I don’t get lunch, I stop being able to work very well. I just get more and more tired until I completely run out of energy. What I’m doing is not sustainable and that’s how I think the…

People in this episode

Host: Bobbie Emery

Topics covered

• sustainable farming
• education
• environment
• children
• planet care

Keywords

• sustainable farming
• third graders
• environment
• education
• planet Earth

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Earth

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