Sea to Shining Sea

Learning through Stewardship

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 asserted by G.K. Chesterton: “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 asserted by Sir Roger Scruton, “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, maintaining for the next generation who will sit beneath the trees we raise only as saplings.

Dust to Dust

Sustainability Programs

  • S.E.E.D.

    Sustainable Energy-Efficient Dwellings

    In response to increases in poverty and homelessness, Aurelia seeks to develop hands-on programs to teach students how to use green practices in creating new, affordable households

  • S.T.E.M.

    Sustainable Trades in Environmental Management

    Since most children are disconnected from the source of their own food, Aurelia seeks to develop hands-on programs to teach students the art of maintaining both farms and the environment

    seeks to create a land trust by which property owners with no heirs can provide land for education in agriculture and resource management