Calculate Your Degrees of Separation from Extraction – Discussion
It’s really hard to get paid for doing a job nowadays that’s not either directly involved in unsustainable natural resource extraction or closely related to it. Obvious extraction is anything that’s digging up or cutting down natural resources in an unsustainable...
Three Good Habits for Contributing to Purposeful Change
If you’re like me, you’re thinking about never reading the news again because it’s so depressing, scary and confusing. I want to help but I don’t know what to do, and everyone’s pointing fingers at everyone else. Heat waves and record high temperatures out west. More...
Hydroponics and Local Food and Farms Events Tomorrow, April 20
Don’t forget to sign up for tomorrow’s events! Hydroponics at noon, Local Food and Farms at 4:30. Free but registration is required, get registration link at https://cleanetwork.com/events/. Please...
Go Solar SI! Weekly Wednesday Noon Meetings
Did you miss the “Go Solar SI” meeting last week? That’s OK! Here’s a link to the video: https://youtu.be/3jlvtD0bX5g We’ll be meeting from now on every Wednesday at noon, starting this Wednesday April 21, to keep moving solar energy...
Press Release: Events April 20-27 on Local Food and Farms, Hydroponics, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Biochar and Local Carbon Network
April Event Series Continues Efforts for “Community Opportunity Organizing” April 15, 2021, Southern Illinois – Clean energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation opportunities are the biggest moment of our time. A series of events this April and May are...
Press Release: Go Solar SI! Solar Discussion April 14
April 8, 2021, Southern Illinois – Clean energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation opportunities are the biggest moment of our time. A series of events this April and May are kicking off a concerted #AllTogetherNowSI effort to organize our communities...
April Event Schedule
Lots going on in April! Check out the Earth Month event schedule.
This President’s Day, Celebrating President Biden’s Aggressive Climate and Jobs Agenda
First of all, can I just say how nice it is to have a president who is clearly super excited and proud to be our president and to be out there and working to protect lives and improve things for all Americans using science and compassion? There’s my hopefulness,...
Aur’s Next Solar Training Coming Up Feb 20
Aur Beck’s spring solar training started January 23. If you missed it, it’s OK! The next class is Feb. 20, Saturday, 9am-3pm. It is one Saturday a month. The goal is to pass the NABCEP Associate test and do a hands on installation the last Saturday of the...
How We Win The Battle: By Working Together
In the first post of the year, I pointed out that 2021 is the battle year. It’s the turning point, the crux, the pivot, where everything changes. That’s a tough battle. How do we win? By working together. Yep, that’s right: we fight and win by working together. Every...