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By Kristi Vitelli Yesterday, I attended a webinar sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Zero Waste Coalition featuring the guest speaker Jeanine Behr Getz, the leader of BYOCT (Bring Your Own Connecticut). She revealed that Americans produce an extra twenty-nine pounds of trash every week between Thanksgiving Day and New Year’s Day. The increase […]

By Kristi Vitelli Last January members of TALK Environment group, together with local gardeners, formed a Pollinator Pathway group in Glastonbury. I attended one meeting and was hooked. Lacking knowledge about native plant gardening I sought out resources and found a webinar presented by Doug Tallamy, a University of Delaware professor of entomology and wildlife

By Richard Eldridge In order to mitigate climate change, it is imperative that our community move to replace electricity that is produced through the burning of fossil fuels. By capturing and using the power of the sun, carbon emissions can be reduced. In our community, the town has installed solar panels at several town facilities

By Chris Gullotta At 1.5 degrees Celsius warming, NASA projects that “climate-related risks to human health, food, employment, food security, human security, water supply and economic growth will all increase. Vulnerable and disadvantaged populations and some communities of indigenous peoples and communities with livelihoods based on agricultural or coastal resources will be at highest risk.

By Bruce Bowman, President of Truth in Action with Love and Kindness, (TALK). Welcome to Green on the Corner! This is where you will find regular conversations on a multitude of issues that all relate to climate change. Climate change is such an all-encompassing topic that it is hard to know where to start, what

by Kristi Vitelli It is finally Spring! This is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether you enjoy yardwork, dread yardwork or need to start paying the landscaper their monthly fee to do your yardwork. If you are in the last two categories, you might want to consider a new type

By Kristi Vitelli Want to do something this month that helps the planet?  Take the challenge to cut down on your use of single-use plastics during the month of July.  This challenge started in Western Australia in 2011, and has grown in worldwide popularity every year since.  You can sign up to take the challenge

by Kristi Vitelli At the end of May last year, during the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, my husband, daughter and I traveled from Glastonbury to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  This trip was unavoidable because we needed to retrieve my daughter’s belongings from her college apartment.  She had come home in early March