Tag: climate
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Green Center
The Falmouth Wind Project Appeal November 20, 2018 In June 2017, Judge Cornelius Moriary of the Barnstable Superior Court shut down Falmouth’s two 1.65 MW wind turbines. Since then, The Green Center —working with a small group of Falmouth residents— attempted to restore the turbines to operation by appealing the decision. The Town of Falmouth would…
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Pick your “ick”
The following letter to the editor by Hilde Maingay was written in response to an editorial in The Falmouth Enterprise criticizing the “ick” factor of eco-toilets. The same paper published the letter on March 13, 2015. The alarm bells of the climate (and environmental) crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and…
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Climate Change
In her book This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein suggests that a survivable endgame for our society depends on “a realizable, if distant, vision” of a better and more sustainable future. “This means laying out a vision of the world that competes directly with today’s vision, one that resonates with the majority of people on the…
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Chinese Permaculture
There are large regions in China where farmers have grown food on the same land for more than 6,000 years. Over that time, several hundred generations of farmers developed a highly efficient, highly productive, sustainable agricultural methods, passed on by common custom and recorded using written language. Although traditional Chinese agriculture is perhaps the most…
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Environmental Justice Missing in Falmouth CWMP
The following comments were written by Hilde Maingay, read in the Cape Cod Commission’s public hearing on the Falmouth Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan on 12/4/13 and submitted to MEPA in December. Hilde is a board member of The Green Center and the Falmouth Climate Action Team and Citizens for Economic and Ecological Sustainability. Since September 2013 she has also…
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Join us for a Green Building Open House!
On Saturday, October 5, get a behind-the-scenes look at sustainable technologies and renewable energy solutions, and learn how they’re saving your neighbors lots of green! The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH), the largest sustainable energy event in the Northeast, will take place on the Upper Cape on October 5, 2013…
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Waste Not, Want Not
Consider… 10 calories of fossil fuel are spent for every calorie an American eats. The nutrients in pee are roughly the same ratio as those found in commercial fertilizer. Dried feces are an excellent source of carbon needed to build soil. An overload of nutrients in fresh and salt water chokes fish, prevents shellfish…
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