Awareness

This piece was written by Rebecca Moses and originally published in Groom + Style on May 14, 2020. There’s no doubt that our purchasing decisions are the backbone of the local economy, and whether we buy local or shop at a…Read More

Happy July 1st, my friends! Yes, it’s already July if you can believe it. With the seventh month of the year comes picnics, water lilies, Independence Day in the US, and some of the warmest temperatures of the year. But…Read More

There are many issues to watch in 2020 and some that have been developing for decades are about to make big changes. One of those to follow up on is the constant fight between the protection of land and present…Read More

It’s getting closer and closer to the height of summer in the US, with flowers blooming in gardens and trees flaunting leaves in every shade of green. But some trees dotting the sidewalks of Chelsea, Massachusetts (and across the US)…Read More

Starting in 2017, a team of scientists and researchers embarked on the Growing Islands project. This project has continued in the following three years to identify and test a potential way to mitigate the effects of sea level rise on island and…Read More

Header Image Credit: Christina M. Larsen, Artist and Designer, christinamlarsen.com “Nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin Many Americans are facing the rude awakening that racism has been their next-door neighbor all this time. It may not…Read More

In 1992, Canada presented the idea of World Oceans Day to the United Nations at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Ten years later, the Ocean Project began global collaboration for the event and almost three decades later from its…Read More

Today is National Endangered Species Day, a day to recognize why wildlife conservation is important and what can be done to help prevent threatened species from extinction. In 2006, U.S. Congress officially made the third Friday in May a day…Read More

The age-old pastime of sitting in the grass and looking to the sky, picking out the clouds that look like a ship with full sails or an elephant or a dolphin, is a pleasant game of imagination. But when I…Read More

The coronavirus has dramatically halted so much of our ‘normal’ lives: dropping the kids of at school, going out for dinner, going into the office, going to the doctor, shaking hands, hugging, even just walking outside. It has also had…Read More