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Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 4
October's Newsletter featured unique articles on recycling right in SWFL, the carbon footprint of the fashion industry, the changing nature of work environments, and our standing column that provides updates [...]
Glancing in the Rearview, Full Speed Ahead
At the beginning of our second year, we take a moment to look back on what we’ve accomplished and where we go next. For the past year, Growing Climate Solutions: [...]
Let’s Support the Southwest Regional Resiliency Compact
Since the 1980s, the direct cost of hurricane events in the US has increased eleven-fold, from $3.8 billion annually to $43.8 billion annually in 2020. This is the result of [...]
If to Toss, Where to Toss? That is the Question: Recycling Right in SWFL
By Sarah Swiersz A recent graduate of the University of Central Florida and lifelong resident of SWFL Recycling is arguably the baseball or apple pie of the United States’ sustainability [...]
Where We Work
Labor Day was designated to acknowledge the Labor Movement’s victories to reform the American workplace; the creation of the 8-hour workday, the 40-hour workweek, and safer, humane working conditions. [...]
Making Green the New Fashion Color
Society’s passion for fashion, it turns out, contributes 4% of global greenhouse gases emitted annually, 2.1 billion tons, which is more than the combined annual GHG emission of France, Germany, [...]
ecoAmerica notes the “Fierce Optimism of Now”
By Jennifer Roberts, Director of Path to Positive Communities The past months of crisis have brought forward many wrenching, heartbreaking stories about the challenges that people of color in the [...]
Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 3
The August Newsletter is here! This issue features four original articles: one about the Bi-partisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, a green-lifestyle piece about Apps that help you live a more [...]
Teaching 21st Century Social Studies
By Dr. Ana Puszkin-Chevlin This August, as parents, teachers, and school districts struggle to decide how to safely educate our children during a raging pandemic, they may not realize that [...]
Establishing Roots
Summer is typically a time to regroup, re-refresh and plan for “Season”. But summer 2020 has been different. Because the spring was spent reorganizing and reprioritizing activities and projects in [...]
What’s in a Name? The New Growing Climate Solutions Act Aims to Grow Carbon Credit Markets
Our name is so great federal legislators borrowed it for a new bill called Growing Climate Solutions Act. The bill aims to help farmers, ranchers, and foresters participate in [...]
APPS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE
By Kiah St. Onge Yergi Changing habits is hard. Many people find support and success with the use of assistive technology. Like Fitbits and Weight Watchers help dieters keep track [...]
Irrespective of Party Affiliation, Floridians believe in Climate Change
These days it seems difficult to find common ground among Republicans and Democrats, but one thing we now know, Floridians overwhelming agree that climate change is happening and that [...]
Three SWFL Cities May be Underestimating Flood Risk
Three Southwest Florida cities may be significantly underestimating their flood risk, according to new data produced First Street Foundation’s Flood Factor model. The Flood Factor model identified that in Cape [...]
One Climate Solution: Encourage More Telecommuting
The public health and economic crises that have unfolded since March and the calls for social justice that erupted in June have upended the status quo we called “normal’ and [...]
Newsletter Vol. 1 Issue 2.
Despite COVID-19, Growing Climate Solutions continues to grow and advance its climate program! Read our June newsletter to learn about the SWFL Climate Ambassador Program we launched in May, and [...]
SWFL Climate Ambassadors Complete Training
Our first cohort of SWFL Climate Ambassadors completed the 3-hour training program in May and are now ready to engage the public in climate discussions. The SWFL Climate Ambassador program [...]
Shhhh and Listen
Shhhhh Everyone and Listen By Ana Puszkin-Chevlin, Ph.D. May 22, 2020 On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, in April 2020, cities around the world documented cleaner air and water [...]
Montreal, Kyoto and Paris – an overview of international climate accords
By Kiah St. Onge-Yergi, Intern and Sandra Mollinedo, FGCU Student The Montreal Protocol, 1987 The Montreal Protocol termed the “Montreal Protocol on Substances that Depleted the Ozone,” is an international [...]
Repurposing Streets: Replacing cars with socially-distanced people
Across the globe, stay at home orders and social distancing requirements are making transportation planners and public officials re-think how street infrastructure can better serve residents. From Seattle to New [...]
