Tag: Solutions
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Solutions: An environmental ditty
By Huck Fairman We live on a planet both large and small. There is so much, as we know, to it all. So much has chance and nature made to which we add what each can fashion, what we too eagerly have displayed, through our arts and imperatives of acquisition. Yes, all our stuff…
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SOLUTIONS 8/6: Our Burning Earth
By Huck Fairman Many, if not most, in our region have been aware of the climate crisis. Many, but far from most, have turned to electric vehicles (EVs) and solar panels. While emissions in the United States and Europe have been declining, this summer’s extreme heat and weather events warn that we are not doing…
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SOLUTIONS 7/30: Packaging That Doesn’t Poison Our Environment
By Huck Fairman We all purchase food, drinks and items that often come to us in plastics. Yet most of us are aware that studies have shown plastics to be degrading, if not outright poisoning, our environments and the creatures (including us) who live in them. Plastics found in our oceans, and other water bodies, are…
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SOLUTIONS 7/30: Packaging That Doesn’t Poison Our Environment
By Huck Fairman We all purchase food, drinks and items that often come to us in plastics. Yet most of us are aware that studies have shown plastics to be degrading, if not outright poisoning, our environments and the creatures (including us) who live in them. Plastics found in our oceans, and other water bodies, are…
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SOLUTIONS 7/30: Packaging That Doesn’t Poison Our Environment
By Huck Fairman We all purchase food, drinks and items that often come to us in plastics. Yet most of us are aware that studies have shown plastics to be degrading, if not outright poisoning, our environments and the creatures (including us) who live in them. Plastics found in our oceans, and other water bodies, are…
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SOLUTIONS 7/9: The D&R Greenway Land Trust – Environmental Leader
The D&R Greenway Land Trust, the region’s unofficial land steward reaching in many directions to preserve and enhance our environments, has recently launched two new important projects. But first, the D&R, a nonprofit, environmental leader since 1989, has been instrumental in saving local woods and fields, farms and community gardens, and establishing trails for people…
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SOLUTIONS 7/2: Capturing Carbon – Ideas Large and Small
By Huck Fairman Most local readers know about the climate crisis we face, and they recognize that we have limited time to reduce emissions before the problem becomes catastrophic. What many may not be aware of are the numerous, diverse efforts to reduce our carbon emissions. Among those widely known are electric vehicles, solar panels,…
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SOLUTIONS 5/21: The New Jersey Clean Energy Program
By Huck Fairman New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program presented on a Zoom meeting by local Sierra Club member, Kip Cherry and several associates. New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program is picking up speed. Its purpose is to reduce the climate footprints of New Jersey residents and to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted statewide. Colleagues Joanne Pannone,…
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Solutions: State moves toward eliminating single-use plastics
Many are aware of the problems plastics cause in our environments. They threaten, and indeed kill, animals living in water bodies. They obstruct healthy plant life, and can get into our water sources. Plastics can act as “endocrine disruptors” in our reproductive systems and impair those systems. Now the State of New Jersey has taken…