Ohio State Lectures

1. The DUNN Paradigm: How we transformed Our Town into an Environmental Stewardship Community Ohio State Lectures Calvin B. DeWitt Professor Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison

14. Discovery about our Land and Life We discovered that our rural town, which comes to us as a great gift that sustains our very lives, was seriously imperiled by human behavior. We discovered that we were allowing the gradual degradation of human community and the living landscape on which everything depends.. We found that the costs of this degradation of land an life was becoming manifest throughout our town and surrounding region, and would adversely affect all generations to come.

17. We Responded with Deliberate Action: We… Selected and elected new Town Board Members Conducted a thorough Cultural & Landscape Inventory Used what we found to establish a Dunn Land Ethic

18. The INVENTORY we conducted was: • Of all of our assets, human and natural • Cultural Assets • Soils --- Using the Soil Survey and Local Expertise • Wetlands, Woodlands, Farmlands, Streams • Inventory of Plants, Vertebrates, Invertebrates… • Of degradations and threats to land and community • Soil loss • Loss of farms • Degradation of streams and wetlands…

19. Ten Components of the Dunn Land Ethic

31. We Responded with Deliberate Action: We… Selected and elected new town board members Conducted a thorough inventory Used what we found to establish a Dunn Land Ethic Adopted a land stewardship plan by referendum Adopted a purchase-of-development rights (PDR) program Voted to raise our own taxes to pay PDR costs

33. We Responded with Deliberate Action: We… Selected and elected new town board members Conducted a thorough inventory Used what we found to establish a Dunn Land Ethic Adopted a land stewardship plan by referendum Adopted a purchase-of-development rights (PDR) program Voted to raise our own taxes to pay PDR costs Provided for continual & consistent enforcement Provided for annual law corrections to maintain justice

34. Following Through… …an Invitation for Action We act promptly and carefully, without delay. We maintain a democratic process at every level to lead our town toward responsible con-service. We follow through with enforcement, without favors. We work to improve achievement of our land and community stewardship goals annually. We provide to other communities information and assistance in taking similar actions. We invite others across the continent, and around the world to join us in these efforts.

35. Discovery of Con-Service We came to realize that all of us are in a continual, sustained, and interactive relationship with lives and the landscape. This is a RECIPROCAL SERVICE between land and people---a kind of negotiation between “garden” and “gardener”--- a “CON-SERVICE” between people and the biosphere in which biospheric service to human beings and other life is returned with service of our own. Living with Plants & Soils in Town and Biosphere

36. Key Elements of the Dunn Land Ethic Establish and Nurture Community Continually Practice Con-Service Embrace Citizens & the Biosphere with Diligence

38. Thank you…