Climate Action

Part 4 – Let’s Shrink our Holiday Footprint

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Tips for Difficult Holiday Conversations.  How can we talk about Climate Change? This week, an article from Katherine Hayhoe, leading Canadian/American climate scientist and advocate, tips for difficult holiday conversations. How can we talk about Climate Change? View article here  

Let’s Shrink our Holiday Footprint – Part 3

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Real or Artificial?  Which Christmas Tree is Better for Your Carbon Footprint? OK, this was a trick question cause the actual answer is no Christmas tree. The best thing from a carbon perspective would be to forget the tree and deck the halls with greens from your yard. Bonus points if you use discarded trimmed … Read more

Request From CYRE

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  CYRE is in need of clean, reusable (usually brown) gift-sized bags for the children in CYRE to decorate on December 18th. The goal is to recycle and decorate packaging for Christmas wrapping, without the need to purchase new wrapping paper. Bags can be dropped off at church (see Sheila Van Leusden) Sunday, December 11th, … Read more

Part 2 – Let’s Shrink our Holiday Footprint

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or is it? The seasonal holiday celebrations bring light to the darkest time of the year but there is an environmental impact. According to researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute the 3 days of Christmas celebrations on December 24th, 25th, and 26th account for 5.5% of our … Read more

Let’s Shrink Our Holiday Footprint

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or is it? The seasonal holiday celebrations bring light to the darkest time of the year but there is an environmental impact. According to researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute the 3 days of Christmas celebrations on December 24th, 25th, and 26th account for 5.5% of our … Read more