Stewardship and the Future in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene

How do people on the local level in the context of global (un)sustainability participate in movements for greater equality, justice in the future in the anthropocene/capitalocene? The imaginative stewardship concept is pursued and the research for this project on stewardship has been developed from the engagement, ethnography and documentary methods over the last 50 years in "northern Appalachia", USA. The New England region designation by the author indicates a geographic and cultural region defined by the Appalachian Mountains from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama. Stewardship varies by region and locale, and the author's focus on the north is a way to dispel "Appalachian" stereotypes. Contemporary sustainabile development goals are serious challenges, with a view from the transformation of land from the indigenous, to family farm settlements, to the industrial; land development shifted by both dairy to factory farms, and logging for commerce, transformation of forests and extraction of wood for paper products, the decline of paper mills, altered landscapes, energy challenges, and conflict with dominant corporate powers. Modern local movements have included ending the quest for hydropower transmission lines to current challenges by corporate controled 'carbon crediting' programs from foreign and our-of-region corporate owner. Local stewardship concepts vision long-tern into the future and reflect long-term practices from the past. The author is directly involved with a conservation project, working wiuth local officials,and community members. Also, participation in the United Nations Stageholder Engagement for Integrated Actions to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & the Pact for the Future, globalizes these activities and adds to the conversation on the local level. Such movement "agency" addresses indigenous, workingclass, and other marginalized realities in order to promote greater justice and to "balance" idealism with realism about the future. The project poses comparative potentials for further research.