The More You Know, The More You Grow: Community Education's Ties to Pond Restoration [340]
Channel: Science and Environment Council
Date: 2021-04-10

By educating your community on environmentally-friendly practices, you can really step up your whole community's restoration experience.

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One of the most important things that you need to think about as a community if you're getting ready to start doing work with your ponds, your preserves, your stormwater system is the education part of it. If you’re going to look for funds later on or try to convince people, which is sometimes a little bit difficult to do, about what you're doing, the important part is the education. What we did here in Stoney Brook long before we started any physical work in our natural assets project, which is what we call it, we worked on the education part of it. We did newspaper articles in our little monthly newsletter, we did education seminars in the clubhouse, and even to this point now, we do little on-site nature tours. We invite the members to come out, we usually take about six to ten people sometimes it's a little bit larger, and take them on a tour of these areas within the community - our preserves and our ponds or looking at the animals and the plant life that has come back - to give them an idea of what it is that we’re doing and also where all that hard earned money is going in what we do. So it really works out if you let the people know what you're doing and get them to understand it before anything starts.