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River Rocks Are the Building Blocks
Over the last year and a half, I’ve had the pleasure of being on the board of the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA) with a group of like-minded, water-loving volunteers. The experience is everything I want in a volunteer organization: … Continue reading
Rippling Out: The Impact of of LSRA’s Environmental Education Program
It’s 9:00 a.m. on a sunny spring day in May. Devin Winand, Deputy Director of Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA), Megan McCarthy, LSRA’s Community Engagement Coordinator, and Aaron Dixon, Program Coordinator for LSRA, gather at Long Level to greet a group … Continue reading
Yes, We CAN!
Red Rose Reuses, participating in a tabling event at Open Streets in Lancaster I always love the way the universe sends you the right people at the right time once you make up your mind about what it is you … Continue reading
Oh, Behave! Managing Our Love Affair with Plastics
Photo credit, Karl Gibbons, Third-Eye Management In April, Melissa Snavely and I, co-directors of Red Rose Reuses, had the pleasure of presenting a talk on reducing single-use plastics. Red Rose Reuses originated under the umbrella of College Park Climate Action … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, eco-friendly, environment, lifestyle, Sustainability, Sustainable Living
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Zoom In On the Conejohela Flats, Part 3
Among the leaf litter, we discover plastic as numerous as it appeared on the banks from a distance. We find bottle caps, spent lighters, shreds of plastic bags, and Styrofoam bits everywhere. We see broken bits of plastic, no longer … Continue reading
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Tagged eco-friendly, environment, plastic, plastic pollution, Sustainability
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Zoom In On the Conejohela Flats – Part 2
“We step gingerly and feel ahead before we press down firmly. When we kick an underwater object in the Flats, there are good odds that it might just be a radial tire. *** While we can’t agree on which fish … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, health, microplastics, plastic, plastic pollution
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Zoom In On The Conejohela Flats!
My friend and colleague, Justin Mando, who serves on the Board of the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA) with me, has created a triptych of videos on the Conejohela Flats, a series of small islands and adjacent mudflats in the … Continue reading
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Tagged academic-writing, books, education, environment, writing
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The Climate Book
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The Usual Suspects If you like horror stories, then The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions created by Greta Thunberg is your next read. Packed … Continue reading
Technology for a Greener World
There are a lot of people producing a lot of great environmentally friendly content on the internet these days. People like Mark Harris at Awareness Toolkits, one of a small group of folks committed to finding ways to live … Continue reading
Material Value
MATERIAL VALUE The word sustainability seems to be on everyone’s lips these days and if you don’t know what it means then you’ll want to pick up a copy of Julia Goldstein’s book, Material Value, More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, conservation, engineering, environment, environmental conservation, environmental effects, fossil fuels, Julia Goldstein, Material Value, recycling, regeneration, renewable energy, Sustainability, writing, zero waste, zero waste stream
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