In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Native American author Robin Wall Kimmerer expands the concept of sustainability to a broader vision of reciprocity between people and the rest of the living world. Sustainability implies that it’s OK to squeeze as much as we can out of the natural world as long… Read More »On Sustainability, Reciprocity and Trees
Last October, the world’s leading climate scientists warned that we have only a dozen years in which to prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5C, in order to reduce the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. The Global Warming Solutions Act passed by… Read More »Sharon’s master plan must deal with climate change
Our family of five, including my three children, ages 12, 10 and 5, moved from Wrentham to Sharon in August 2016. Anticipating the continuation of our greener-than-average lifestyle here in Sharon, I was blindsided one day when my son, Miles, returned from school. He extended a piece of a polystyrene… Read More »Upgraded to an A+: Healthy Trays, Healthy Students in the Sharon Middle School
By Ellen Bordman My daughter has been making her own lunches since third grade. Now that she’s going into 5th grade, all I have to do is make sure she has the supplies she needs. One look in our lunch box supply/random stuff drawer showed me I had some work to… Read More »Back to School Lunches
The town continues to slim down its carbon footprint – New LED street lights, currently being installed, are a win-win proposition for Sharon. They immediately save the town energy and money and last 5 times as long as the conventional streetlights they’re replacing: http://sharon.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/new-led-street-lights-expected-to-save-sharon-money
Climate Change Resolution – Sharon Town Meeting, May 5, 2014 Sharon Town Meeting recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions generated by fossil fuels have already set climate change in motion, and that arresting these changes will require actions at every level of society, including federal, state, local and individual, to: •… Read More »Climate Change Resolution – Sharon Town Meeting, May 5, 2014
