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Is Your Child’s Health at Risk?

December 9, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

Is your child at risk for climate crisis health problems?  According to Frederica Perera, environmental health sciences professor at Columbia University and author of Children’s Health and the Peril of Climate Change, almost every child across the globe is already at risk from climate change-related threats like extreme heat, poor air quality, pollution, and disease-carrying mosquitoes and ticks.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: asthma, children and health, climate crisis, environment, extreme heat, Frederica Perera, pollution, wildfires

It’s Time to Stop the Madness

July 8, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

It’s time to stop the madness.  Fossil fuel industries have taken profit over people and planet to new heights, as they work aggressively to stop any progress on mitigating climate crisis. 

Filed Under: Blog, Energy, Featured Tagged With: climate crisis, crop failure, environment, fossil fuels, health, ocean heat, pollution, Sierra Club

Deep Dive Into Biodiversity

January 17, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Let’s take a deep dive into biodiversity to help you understand how important it is.  Biodiversity refers to the many kinds of organisms found in an area.  These organisms–animals, plants, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: biodiversity, climate change, climate crisis, Doug Tallamy, Fantastic Fungi, Homegrown National Park, Keep Media Green, native plants, pollution, web of life

Shale Gas Fracking: Impacts on People, Climate and Environment

November 30, 2018 by Marion Leave a Comment

What is natural gas fracking? What is shale gas? Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) extracts shale gas by injecting millions of gallons of water containing toxic chemicals and sand at very high […]

Filed Under: Blog, Working Groups Tagged With: climate change, fossil fuels, fracking, gas fracking, Marcellus Shale, pollution

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