by admin | Feb 27, 2021 | Climate Stories
When I first learned about the effect of local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the earth, I felt overwhelmed, sad and anxious and then decided to respond by curtailing my use of plastics as much as I possibly can. As well, in May 2020, I bought the first fully...
by admin | Feb 27, 2021 | Climate Stories
When my husband and I married, we kept going back and forth about whether or not we wanted biological children. Every year, we’d say, “Well, maybe next year,” until we realized that something about having biological children together felt wrong (for...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Stories
Kern River pumpjacks, California (Photo CC by Sarah Craigh/Faces of Fracking on Flickr) On February 11th, the Kern County (California) Planning Commission held a hearing on a proposed ordinance to allow permitting of more than 67,000 new oil and gas wells over the...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Stories
My grandmother Myma’s last instruction as I was leaving for Roy Stephenson’s tenth birthday party was “Don’t look in the Stephenson’s medicine chest if you have to use the bathroom.” “Okay Grandma, I won’t.” But I did. Lots of rubber stuff I didn’t...
by admin | Feb 3, 2021 | Climate Stories
For 30+ years I lived on my beautiful farm on the idyllic eastern slopes of the Duck Mountains in Manitoba. About 2 years ago, I retired from teaching and found myself with a lot of time on my hands in a fairly remote area. I now had time to focus on issues that...
by admin | Feb 3, 2021 | Climate Stories
Trash? Hmmm …What did we use to do with our household trash? My first memory of disposing of trash was up at the cottage in Cape Vincent NY with Grandpa and Grandma when I was a child. What could be burned was taken “up the hill” to a burning barrel back on the...
