Restore Our Earth with these tips!

Restore Our Earth with these tips!

On Thursday, April 22, we celebrated the 51st Earth Day with the theme, “Restore Our Earth,” which urges us to work together to help repair and restore our environment. While Earth Day is a great time to do something extra for our planet, we need to remember...
Encourage environmental enthusiasm: share this book!

Encourage environmental enthusiasm: share this book!

“No matter where you look, you’re bombarded with these hopeless messages about the future of our planet…. All that doom and gloom stuff is only half the story. You are not nature’s bogeyman. You are nature. You’re connected to this great wide world in ways beyond your...
A Brief History of Earth Day

A Brief History of Earth Day

By the mid-20th century, pollution was so dire it required attention in the United States. In 1969, Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, got the idea for a national event addressing the pollution problem and a need for change. On April 22, 1970, this first...
What you can do to reduce marine litter

What you can do to reduce marine litter

Last week, we shared information about Save Our Seas 2.0, legislation passed last December to reduce marine debris, especially plastic. Here’s what you can do to help! • Avoid excess packaging whenever possible. • Opt for reusables, such washable water bottles,...
Heard of “forever chemicals” called PFAS?

Heard of “forever chemicals” called PFAS?

PFAS in an abbreviation for “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,” which are manmade, highly stable fluorinated chemicals. Because PFAS compounds do not break down easily in nature, they are referred to as “forever chemicals.” Since the 1940s, thousands of PFAS...