A life-changing trauma I experienced six months before COVID struck was compounded by quarantining. Ragged remnants remain for all of us, but as 2020 recedes, we cling to hope and embrace new, healthy habits that will hopefully extricate us from our despair. Typically, as a new year begins, doctors, pastors, and loved ones offer strategies for ridding us of old, destructive habits. Newspaper columns and magazine articles abound with advice.
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“Zoom, Zoom,” the little boy on the commercial says as the car speeds past him. The word has acquired new meaning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: Communication. There are wide differences of opinion today about social gatherings, but there is general agreement on the usefulness of Zoom.
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Tagged More Zoom Meetings, Staying in Touch, Virtual Rather Than In-Person
For the next hundred years, say “2020” and everyone’s first thought will be the same: COVID-19.
The word evokes the collective experience of those lucky enough to have survived it—Worry, depression, loneliness. Overwhelmed, we watched the news, full of dismal tidings edging around the pandemic: Black Lives Matter marches, hijacked by rioters and looters; horrific wildfires and destructive hurricanes and flooding; Politics that reached new lows.
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Six billion pounds of plastic bottles get thrown out every year and only about thirty percent are recycled.
Standing in line for water in preparation for Hurricane Irma, I wondered how many water bottles would end up in the landfill. After this manic push to collect the recommended three gallons per person per day of incalculable outages it will be the equivalent of a mountain. Having survived Hurricane Andrew, I know recycling is the last thing on victims’ minds. Twenty-five years ago, plastic water bottles were not as ubiquitous as they are today.
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Posted in Carbon Footprint, Environment, Landfills, pollution, stewardship
Technosphere. Who knew there was a term for all the junk humans have made? Every week I dutifully haul the recycle bins to the curb and place them next to my trash can. I wonder how much is actually recycled and how much trash I contribute to the landfill. Do my castoffs and disposables add up to inches? Feet?
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The utilities have done a great job pushing for a yes vote on Amendment 1. Why do you suppose? Most of what the amendment proposes, we already have. The big difference, obscured by confusing language, will be to prevent individuals who have solar panels from selling excess to your neighbors, tenants, or others. This amendment is cleverly composed.
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