Glasgow COP26 Give Us Net Zero in 2030!
Note the little girl in the window who watched the entire march. Some waved to her. …
Category Archives: Climate Change
Melting Greenland Ice Sheet, Sea Ice Formation, and the Flow of the Gulf Stream
Pummeled by rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and increasing ocean acidity, headlines tell of climate change giving the ocean another punch. “A crucial system of ocean currents is faltering.” “A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change.” “Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse.” Yet, as…
Lawn by Lawn, with Nature Doing the Work, We Can Cool the Planet
Thursday July 23, the Ocean River Institute’s Natural Lawn Care for Healthy Soils Competition was in Bridgewater. Jacklyn Norris (left) of Bridgewater University Environmental Action Team was assisted by Susanna Buckley (Connecticut College) and Adibah Shaikh (U Mass Lowell). The winning towns are those with the greatest number of households pledging to maintain natural lawns…
Hope for the bees
There is hope for the bees when there’s clover in the lawn. Researchers discovered that lawns in Springfield Massachusetts when cut every three weeks instead of weekly resulted in as many as 2.5 times more lawn flowers, mostly clover and dandelions, and a great diversity of 93 species of bees. Thursday, May 20th is the…
Let green water cycle and rivers flow all summer
My family and friends used to paddle down the Ipswich River. We’d load up canoes, pull in hands and feet, put paddles out, to follow watery bends and turns down the river. In May, high water carried us over river banks, through trees and out onto flooded fields by the Topsfield fairgrounds. We floated outside…
Why Modifying Your Lawn Care Practices Will Do More to Abate Climate Change than Changing Your Car for a Hybrid
In the efforts to slow the ravages wrought by Climate Change, the hare may have beaten the hybrid car while munching on grass. The real winners are non-fertilized natural lawns and healthy soil microbes. The hare was just stimulating the plants to action, to photosynthesis drawing carbon dioxide from the air and pumping out liquid…
Stop Plastic Pollution Comments from Arizona
Thank you for lending your voice to this worthy endeavor. Please share with friends and associates. Encourage them to join with us in speaking out in our own words. Got something to say? Send us photographs and we’ll post on the state page where plastic pollution is happening. Walk the talk with a donation of $3,…
International Stop Plastic Pollution Comments
Thank you for lending your voice to this worthy endeavor. Please share with friends and associates. Encourage them to join with us in speaking out in our own words. Got something to say? Send us photographs and we’ll post on the state page where plastic pollution is happening. Walk the talk with a donation of $3,…
