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Climate Solutions Benefit Us All – Letter to Port Charlotte Sun Editors
Response to “Let’s Call the Climate Change Bluff” December 21, 2020 by Ed Maxwell, Ph.D. Business Owner and SWFL Climate Ambassador, Dec. 26, 2020 Dear editors: On December 21, 2020, [...]
Real Estate Investing for 2050
After a decade of talking about the risks climate change poses to Florida real estate, I’ve now started to consider where to buy land to ensure that future generations of [...]
Help Build Momentum for the SWFL Regional Resiliency Compact
Written in by Tom Bierma and Growing Climate Solutions Throughout the fall, FGCU Professor Mike Savarese met with elected officials in the region, urging them to adopt the Memorandum of [...]
December Newsletter – 2020
The last newsletter of the year offers tips for sustainable holidays, a summary of climate and environmental measures passed during the November election, and a provocative essay on alternatives to [...]
Hang on, 2021 is Just Around the Corner
For many of us, 2021 can’t come soon enough. Growing Climate Solutions is also excited for the new year. We have ambitious programs planned for the winter and are hopeful [...]
Towards a Zero-Waste Holiday: Your Questions Answered
By Sarah E. Swiersz Amidst all of the holiday buzz, you may be wondering how to make more sustainable choices, and particularly cut down on the immense amount of waste [...]
Right to Clean Water Charter Amendment is Now Law
by Linda Sechrist, President of SWFL RESET Center On Election Day, 89% of Orange County voters turned their Right to Clean Water Charter Amendment into law. Also known as the [...]
Having Plan B
A tenet of Growing Climate Solutions is that stakeholders who understand the reason the climate is changing, the magnitude of climate impacts, and the various solutions, will be motivated to [...]
Resiliency Bonds on November’s Ballot
Two cities on Florida’s southeast coast are moving forward climate adaptation with the passage of general obligation bond referendums earmarked for resiliency projects. In Miami Beach passage of Referendum 5 [...]
Rx for the Earth: Telecommuting
by Stephanie Petrakos, guest contributor It’s hard to believe that 2021 is around the corner. Looking back, 2020 will be remembered as a year of change, one that forced people [...]
Paleontology say that adaptation has always been Humans’ key to Climate Change Survival
Professor Uno, a paleontologist at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory makes a compelling case as to how homosapiens have survived previous climate change episodes through adaptation. The ability to [...]
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 [...]
