Our actions, however small have an impact. And there is power in Numbers
As I have mentioned before I have started a course about acting on climate change on the individual, communal, and political level. One of the items that we were offered was this fun TED talk. Enjoy, it takes less then 3 minutes. What do you think? Who will you be?
This is a quote given to me by a friend from one of her friends….. this lady tried to express how small acts can make a difference. I am exited to share that I started a free course given by the university of Michigan about how you can make a difference on a personal, community and national/political level with regards to the environment. It is not so much discussing climate science, but more behavior science, different models of how to…
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Here are a few websites that I have mentioned before. A little repetition never hurts anyone. 🙂 https://www.thredup.com https://www.tru.earth https://zerowastecartel.com
I came across this organization today 🙂 https://www.appalachianwild.org/wands-for-wildlife.html
I have actually mentioned this resource before. They would have been the key note speakers at the Natural product convention in LA in the beginning of March we were slated to go to, and we decided literally 15 minutes before we would leave for the airport to cancel our trip……. only to find out that the next day the entire convention with 10.000 + vendors was cancelled. And that was the beginning of the pandemic era for us. Because most…
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2015/may/12/dandelions-pollinators-wildlife-garden
with all this rain and in our case snow! i thought it would be fun to post something about collecting rain water for gardening . Luckily I stumbled apon some posts that in some states it is illegal to so so because of some first come first go law from centuries ago which states that the water initially “belonged to someone else”…. So before you decide to do anything, make sure you are allowed ( in MI we are) https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/states-where-it-is-illegal-to-collect-rainwater/…
One of my favorite presents to give to kids (and adults actually) is a butterfly seed kit, and I have done that in the past on several occasions. now that the weather is getting better, maybe we can start thinking about our garden and start planning a butterfly and or bee garden to help nature along a bit. for those who really do not like mowing int he first place, would this not be fantastic? I might actually try this…