Before becoming state representative of Ohio’s 37th District, Casey Weinstein served on the Hudson City Council. Here he speaks to The Sierra Club’s The Land I Trust podcast about Ohio’s air quality and his influences to run for office and work to improve Ohio’s environment.

Have you ever seen someone throw a cigarette butt out a car window? For environmentally minded folks, we see this as littering and we know its implications.  Unfortunately, the general public sees this as a pretty benign thing to do. In a study conducted by the World Health Organization, tossing a cigarette butt out of […]

The truth hurts. And young climate change activist Greta Thunberg just served up a world of it to global leaders at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in an emotional and passionate speech. This is where we are with our society, where our politics and major corporations are so irreparably dysfunctional, that we can’t see […]

As a concerned citizen who is an active and vocal environmental advocate, I follow the news on the climate crisis regularly, and with great interest. My social media and news feeds are flooded daily with articles, reports, studies, interviews, podcasts, and the like, most of which are becoming exponentially more and more urgent. I can’t […]

Have you ever been out for a run or walk, and picked up an empty water bottle, can or other trash that had been discarded on the roadside? Then, you’ve been “plogging.” Plogging comes from the Swedish word “plogga”, which means to “pick up.” Combine that with jogging and you get “plogging”, the eco-fitness trend […]

Hudson, Ohio is an upper-middle class suburb between Cleveland and Akron, nestled at the edge of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Taxes are high. Schools are great. Hudson is historic and beautiful, with a mostly original down town area and charming village, with many homes well over 100 years old, and others 200 or more. […]