"What happens when people and communities lose their
relationship with the land? Do the values stay? Do laws protect
what has already left the heart? I think not... We have not
served
the land well by assuming that conservation is more a
legal act than a cultural act, by assuming that we can
protect land from people through laws, rather than
with people through relationships."
-- Peter Forbes, From
What is a Whole Community
Join ALT for the
final presentation of
the 2006
Conservation Speaker Series
Please
join ALT in welcoming Peter Forbes to Newport City Hall on Thursday,
November 9, 2006 at 6:30pm with his presentation "Translating the
Soul of the Land".
Peter, a
photographer, writer, and farmer considers himself a life long
student of the relationship between land and people.
For ten years, Peter
led the Trust for Public Land in New England. In 1998, Peter became
TPL’s first national fellow and devoted himself to researching and
writing about how individual and community relationships with the land
can become the seeds for broader social change. In 2001, he founded
the Center for Land and People to help foster a new practice of land
conservation where relationship is as important as place. He later
began to unfold an ambitious dream of creating a place, and a set of
relationships, that might help to create healthier, whole communities.
Today, the Center for Whole Communities has alumni from 38 states and
more than 150 communities and organizations.
Peter’s essays are
included in the following books Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on
People and Place, The Great Remembering: Further Thoughts on
Land, Soul and Society, and Coming to Land and What is a
Whole Community? - A Letter to Those Who Care For And Restore The Land. A selection of
his books will be available for sale at the event.
Admission
is FREE with light refreshments.
If you would like to attend the Conservation Speaker Series
or
would like more information RSVP
to Megan at
mandersen@ailt.org or 401-849-2799 x19.
The Aquidneck Land
Trust’s mission is to preserve Aquidneck Island’s open spaces and
natural character for the lasting benefit of our community. The Land
Trust has conserved a total of 1,860.78 acres on Aquidneck Island.
This year alone, the Land Trust has already conserved over 572 acres,
the most acres ever conserved by the Land Trust in a single year since
its inception about sixteen years ago. The Land Trust is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization. For more information, visit
www.AquidneckLandTrust.org
or call (401) 849-2799.
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