"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
“Is it going to rain today?” I asked our safari guide Mike.“No,” he said with a smile. Then after a few seconds he continued, “But you never know. Global warming has got us all mixed up. The seasons are changing.”In Kenya, Mike went on to say, farmers could plant their crops based on knowing that …
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Antarctica holds a key role in addressing climate change. I traveled there in 2017 on an expedition led by Robert Swan, polar explorer, and his nonprofit, 2041 Foundation. As Rob explains, Antarctica is kind of like earth's pristine memory bank. By preserving Antarctica as a place of science and peace, unowned by any nation, we …
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Re-posted from my Instagram on April 1, 2021: Happy Earth Month! For the next 30 days, I’m gonna post daily #EcoTips, #ClimateStories, and fun #EarthFacts [on my instagram, @mmdewane].Saving the planet isn’t on most people’s agendas and that’s cool (it’s hard enough to think about dinner tomorrow night, let alone think about the planet’s future), but the even …
A brief explanation of the different materials your clothes are made from and how each impact the planet.
Protecting pollinators is critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems and human food supply. Bees, for example, pollinate 70 out of the top 100 crops globally. And roughly 1 in 3 bites of food we eat is derived from plants pollinated by bees. Unfortunately, modern pesticides are killing bees. In 1947 there were 6 million honeybee hives …
Maggie Dewane 