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Climate Local Now: If My Dad Can Do It: Food Recovery for Climate

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 Beth Young 0 Comments

by Mary Morgan & Brianne Briggman Dispatch from Brianne Briggman: One year ago, my 64-year-old father started experiencing severe neck

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Climate Local Now: Climate Smart? You Bet We Are

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 East End Beacon 0 Comments

Pictured Above: What’s in your fridge? Food waste is a top contributor to greenhouse gases. Time Compressed After working for

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Celebrating Dragonfly Day

June 8, 2022June 9, 2022 Beth Young 0 Comments

At the urging of New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, New York has recognized June 9 as Dragonfly Day since

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Celebrating A Pioneering Environmental Organization

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Beth Young 1 Comment

The East End has changed an awful lot in the 50 years since the Group for the East End first opened its doors in Bridgehampton, but what hasn’t changed are the tools necessary for citizens to protect the environment of the places they love.

Left to Right: Michael Madigan (Open Space Council), Mark Haubner, (Drawdown East End), Karen Blumer (Open Space Council), Rachel Carpitella (LI Organics Council), Beth Fiteni (Green Inside and Out), Kenny Rothwell (Winter Brothers Waste Management) on a recent tour of the Brookhaven Landfill

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Climate Local Now: Taking a Lead on Zero Waste for Long Island

April 16, 2022April 21, 2022 Beth Young 1 Comment

We’ve talked in the last few columns about a Circular Economy which includes Zero Waste as a principle, and about a Repair Café, which is one of the very local actions in which everyone can take part. Today we are presenting a real-world example of this for all of us on Long Island—Taking A Lead on Zero Waste (TALZ-LI).

Earth Day paddling on Quogue Wildlife Refuge’s ice pond.

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Celebrate the Earth

April 16, 2022April 21, 2022 Beth Young 0 Comments

Earth Day will be celebrated in force on the East End this year beginning on April 22, and continuing through

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Repair Café Comes to the North Fork

April 12, 2022April 21, 2022 East End Beacon 0 Comments

What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a bike when the wheel runs out of true? Or with a sweater full of moth holes? Toss it? No way! North Fork Environmental Council (NFEC) is organizing the first Repair Café at the Floyd Memorial Library (539 First Street) in Greenport on Saturday April 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Climate Local Now: Start From Your Place

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 East End Beacon 0 Comments

Ours is the Peconic Bioregion by Mary Morgan What Can I Do? That is what both climate recovery optimists Damon

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Climate Local Now: But I Can’t Throw It Away

February 8, 2022February 17, 2022 Beth Young 0 Comments

We are highlighting the concept of a Circular Economy, a paradigm in which we slow the senseless extraction of everything under the sun. This will be the direct result of reducing, reusing, repurposing, reclaiming and recycling all of the things we need—and want. Within this closed-loop system is the potential to regenerate a thriving planet and for us to live within our planetary means and still enjoy meaningful lives. The Repair Café fills the bill.

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Editorial: Talk About Climate Change: Your Neighbors Are Listening

January 27, 2022February 17, 2022 Beth Young 0 Comments

The truth when it comes to climate change is that talk is a form of action. We are all observing the weather changing around us, whether we simply make mental note of it or even if we change the channel when we see extreme weather on television. It seems almost futile to even bring this situation up with our friends and neighbors. After all, we may think, there’s nothing any one of us can do to change the situation.