Dec 17
No Butts About it: Cigarettes Are Bad for the 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 […]

Sep 23
Greta Thunberg Decimates World Leaders With Inspired Speech at UN Over Climate Change

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 […]

Jul 06
It Doesn’t Take a Climate Scientist to See Climate Change is Happening Alarmingly Fast

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 […]

Mar 02
Plogging Crosses the Pond and Picks Up in US

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 […]

Jan 02
Solar Still a Hard Sell in Small Town America: A Case Study

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. […]

Oct 04
AUDIO: Brig. General Stephen A. Cheney Speaks on the National Security Implications of Climate Change

Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret), Chief Executive Officer of the American Security Project (ASP) recently spoke about the national security implications of climate change to the Akron Roundtable, in Akron, Ohio. Gen. Cheney is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has over 30 years experience as a Marine.  His career included a wide variety […]