Sea to Shining Sea

Learning through Conservation

To learn, one must first experience, and to experience one must act. However, not all are granted such an opportunity. In modern times, most children are born into urbanized societies, removed from nature and by extension an independent lifestyle. Thus, Aurelia seeks to create an education program which re-embeds children into the scene and setting of their local communities, empowering students with hands-on experience with resource and agricultural management.

Aurelia, Manifested

Living to Conserve; Conserving to Live

As G.K. Chesterton asserted, “Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people’s property.”

Yet, none of us truly own anything. For, as Sir Roger Scruton observed, “We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship…Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born.”

We are all of us part of a grand Chain of Being, building as we destroy, living as we die, consuming as we are consumed, tasked with maintaining for the next generation who will sit beneath the trees we plant and witness only as saplings.

From Dust, Into Dust

Stewardship as Education

  • S.E.E.D.

    Sustainable Energy-Efficient Dwellings

    To restore health to the households of at-risk communities, S.E.E.D. seeks to develop hands-on programs to teach students how to create beautiful, sustainable, and affordable housing.

  • S.T.E.M.

    Sustainable Trades in Environmental Management

    To restore the healthy relationship between communities and their local food production, S.T.E.M. seeks to provide agricultural learning experiences by managing the land trust Aurelia wishes to establish.