Conservation, the protection, stewardship and love of our green & blue home, is critical to human survival on that precious planet. As populations expand and cultures urbanize it becomes all too easy to forget this fundamental truth, lost in the digital firehose of social media and selfies. To me, the word “traditional” and “conservative” both have the same roots in the conservation-based ethics that have united farmers, nomads, families and villages for many millenia of human life on earth. Conservation relies on traditional, conservative family values of caring for what you have and where you live so that your
