Category: Go Green Go

In some ways COVID-19 has given us a very important gift. It has given us time – time with family, time with our thoughts, and time to look at things much bigger than ourselves. Today was supposed to be our spring litter clean up event. We planned it for this weekend because we thought it […]

Legacy (noun): something received from the past or transmitted from an ancestor or predecessor It’s hard to think of any aspect of our daily lives that won’t be profoundly affected by COVID-19. Articles and news reports dated before February 2020 have been rendered practically irrelevant. We must reconsider virtually all matters of existence in light […]

We are under attack. Of course, the we in that statement can be considered to be environmentalists or environmentalism. In a larger sense, however, we are the people of the United States. And to expand it even further, we are the entire global environment. This attack is being undertaken by agencies and institutions of the […]

“You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.” Neil deGrasse Tyson The populist head of state, despite all evidence, denies climate science. He (and […]

• The fires have raged for months, and will continue for at least another month.   • Australia has always had problems with brush fires, but record temperatures and record drought have exacerbated the issue to unprecedented levels.   • The fires have ravaged the wildlife population of the continent, killing nearly half a billion […]

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 […]