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Climate Change Collective: How green spaces help our planet
It’s clear than our planet is warming and we’re beginning to experience the effects of it. As I write this, I’m looking out the window at smoke from wildfires that have started months earlier than expected due to changes in weather patterns. In this time of change, how we manage our green spaces can help with resilience to climate change, as well as have an ongoing impact on the forces that are causing the changes in our environment. This post is a part of our Climate Change Collective series, through which a group of environmentally minded bloggers are trying to keep climate change at the top of people’s minds. In this series,…
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How Your Internet Use Choices Help the Planet: 5 Simple Actions
Introduction After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Alison and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. We’ve looked at a few areas of our lives so far, such as gardening, our food choices, our energy choices and how we can use our time to help the planet. This week I’m looking at how our internet use choices help the planet. How Data Gets Around the World Internet use choices such as streaming, searching, emailing – they all seem like they shouldn’t have much of an impact beyond maybe the electricity to run our computer. Somehow I thought that the data I download, upload,…
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How Your Actions Help the Planet: Multiply Your Impact
After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Krista and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. We’ve looked at a few areas of our lives so far, such as gardening, our food choices, and our energy choices. This week I’m looking at how we use our time and the ways our actions help the planet. 4 Ways to Make our Actions Help the Planet Here are four suggestions on how you can take action in your life to make a difference for our planet. While there will always be small, individual actions we can take to combat climate change, I feel…
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How Your Energy Choices Help the Planet: Solar Panels
|PR|This is a collaborative post with sponsored content. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers Page. After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Alison and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. So far we have looked at: There will be simple actions we can make in all areas of our lives to lessen our impact on the planet and energy choices in our homes are just such an example! How often have you walked around the house and turned out lights before leaving the house – or because your kids have gone through and turned every…
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How Your Food Choices Help the Planet: 3 Simple Actions
After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Krista and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. Krista started off last week by continuing her series on How Your Garden Helps the Planet. This week, I’m taking a look at how our food choices help the planet. There will be simple actions we can make in all areas of our lives to lessen our impact on the planet and our food choices are no exception. Small, collective actions can add up not just to help prevent climate change, but also to influence policy makers and big businesses to create change.…
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Why No Mow May Needs to Make a Comeback
Earth Day this year was all about the actions we can take as individuals to make a positive impact on our planet and work towards a more sustainable future. That’s why transitioning into No Mow May is a perfect way to keep the individual actions going. What is No Mow May? No Mow May was started in 2018 by a UK organization called Plantlife. It was started in an effort to promote the free growth of wildflowers and other lawn plants that can support wildlife and bees. The concept is simple: Don’t mow your lawn for the month of May. You can choose to not mow your entire lawn or…
