WOULD John Kerry or George Bush do a better job stewarding America's economy?
Merwin documented his experiences creating and stewarding the collection in the volume What Is a Garden?
More offbeat options include renting space on your blog or car to local advertisers, stewarding at festivals and local events, and mystery shopping and market research (companies use ordinary punters to check out local services and products, so check what's available in your area).
The savvy young Christian writer Lauren Winner, in her book "Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity," writes, "Rather than spending our unmarried years stewarding and disciplining our desires, we have become ashamed of them.
The Sports minister, Hugh Robertson, said that the size of the crowds that have massed around the Olympic torch, and particularly the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, at which more than a million people were undeterred by the terrible weather, had caused Olympic officials to increase the amount of stewarding they needed.
Obama has been less forceful in stewarding a new era of responsibility when it comes to adjudicating unresolved misdeeds in the previous White House.
In the mid-'80s he was a co-founder of the Practical Farmers of Iowa (P.F.I ., and between then and his death, he and his wife showed more than 40,000 visitors how a relatively small farm could support a modern family while stewarding the land.
A reasonable policy balance should be achieved to bring these vast oil reserves to market while properly stewarding our environmental resources.
"We found this high-capacity subset to be different, to be more involved and interested in stewarding their family philanthropy".
Today it's clear that we must share responsibility for stewarding our unique open spaces — and only by individuals, businesses, community groups and government officials working together can we protect and sustain them today and for future generations.
But the idea represents a shift in thinking about the federal government's role in stewarding the more than $50 billion it gives to university researchers annually.
