Clean Air Holly Springs

09/10/2024

Hi friends,

As the election nears, it is important to start thinking about your vote. While presidential elections matter, maybe even more so are the down ballot races!

I want to encourage my friends and family to consider the environment in their vote on November 5th!

If you'd like to take it a step further and sign the please follow this link and then tell me about it in the comments. 👇🏻 I would ❤️ to see at least 10 of my friends sign the pledge then post the pledge link on their personal pages. Can you make it your goal to recruit at least 3 to pledge and share?
There are lots of issues to consider in the 2024 election, please vote with climate action and environmental sustainability in mind. 🌏
https://ecoamerica.formstack.com/forms/climate_voter_pledge_2024

For those who want to learn more, here is an audio report comparing the climate plans of the Harris and Trump campaigns.
Don't forget to share in my comments if you take the pledge ecoAmerica
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/09/04/kamala-harris-climate-fracking

01/31/2024

Civics groups, school clubs/groups, book clubs, workplace trainings, classrooms, teacher trainings......reach out if you'd like to host a conversation about the local effects of climate change.

02/03/2023

Met with a group of 7th and 8th graders today to discuss climate change. They had great questions and terrific input. We had time at the end to reflect on our own actions and discuss the logistics of it all. Thanks for having me today!

As a NC Climate Ambassador, Rachel Loughran Woods is trained to have small and large group discussions about climate change. Reach out if you have questions, an upcoming event or a group who would like to book a talk.

02/03/2023

A discussion of changing air quality and habitat destruction due to climate change and over harvesting of fresh water sources.

Utah leaders are under pressure to end water diversions and enforce tougher restrictions in order save the drying Great Salt Lake. A recent report predicted it will completely dry in five years.

01/31/2023

01/27/2023

12/30/2022

BE IN THE KNOW: Paper greeting cards are recyclable!
The following ARE NOT recyclable:
1. Cards printed on photographic paper
2. Cards with glitter
3. Cards with decorations
Please discard these in the trash.

12/29/2022

Students Grades 5-12: this opportunity is for you. Document through photography your perception of climate change. Join the conversation!
If you enter a photo please share with us and good luck!
https://www.noaa.gov/student-photo-contest-2023

12/15/2022

Our Team will be taking some time off for rest, family, holiday cheer and celebration. But we have big plans for the New Year! We'll see you again in 2023!

12/15/2022

Earlier this year, in an exciting move, world leaders committed to developing and negotiating a global treaty to address plastic and its pollution. The potential of this treaty is huge. An international agreement that tackles plastic and its harmful impacts could transform our take, make, waste economy.
Reducing the use and production of plastics and developing methods to deal with the waste properly protects our air, climate, water and personal health.

Will you sign the petition?

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-world-demands-an-ambitious-global-treaty-to-end-the-age-of-plastic?source=direct_link&

12/07/2022

Cool!

Tampa, Florida tries solar sidewalk panels for intersection lights!

The sidewalk panels can be used for backup power when storms cause power outages.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/solar-sidewalk-keeping-the-lights-on-at-one-tampa-intersection

12/07/2022

https://youtu.be/afZKxemgYLs
Single use plastics contribute to air and water pollution and climate change. Creative solutions are here-let’s put them to use.
Any e-commerce merchants out there? Check out this solution to the single use packaging problem!

In 2018, a total of 13.5 billion packages were shipped in the United States — that's a whole lot of single-use plastic packaging. Companies like RePack are b...