When we make the connection between our actions and the environment’s reaction, we steward. While making day-to-day reductions in our own carbon footprint is not as easy as some popular websites promise, stewarding captured carbon can become inherent in each of us.

Artists have been served by science for centuries. When we flip that relationship and base our work in service of science, we take into consideration the larger body of scientific knowledge. We can address real problems with aesthetic, concrete solutions. As a woman, an artist, and a citizen, these acts of restoration take on personal significance, as I ponder the environmental loss I will inevitably leave behind.

This is now your place, and that of so many more. This is restored open space. The earth in all its strengths, despite what generations have done to alter it. This is nature unleashed.