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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

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).

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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.