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Going Green At 70: Plastic waste - and the damage it can do
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- Published: Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:58
Hello my Green Beans, Welcome Back!
We are still on the theme of plastic and the damage it can do.
This one is a tough one but if we are committed, we can do anything!
Plastic caps are among the top five most commonly found items of litter on beaches worldwide. I think it is followed up by plastic utensils. This is a result of humans going to the beach, enjoying a beautiful day the earth has to offer and thanking it by leaving our garbage behind. I will admit I have seen very little at the Merb!
Going Green At 70: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink.
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- Published: Monday, 27 March 2023 06:56
Hello my Green Beans, Welcome Back!
My objective is to share some tid-bits of information that I gleam from all the emails I get every morning on what is going on in the world; the good, the bad and the ugly.
Experts estimate it may take as long as 1,000 years for the average plastic bag to break down. When turtles and other sea critters get their fins on these bags, they sometimes mistake them for food, with fatal results.
I don’t know about you, but that makes me sad. First of all, I am a Feng Shui practitioner, but that’s for another blog, and turtles are good “juju”, I love them. We need to do what we can to protect them and all creatures.
Going Green at 70 Intro: Climate Action Tips
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- Published: Monday, 27 March 2023 05:56
Allow me to introduce myself - I am a happy, humble retired senior citizen living in Pictou County and learning how to “Go Green at 70”. I say humble because really – who am I to be telling anybody how to go green? Well, my little green beans it’s because I am trying very hard to do just that.
Three years ago, I moved from Ontario to my wonderful hometown of New Glasgow ready to get back to my roots, enjoy the ocean, reconnect with my friends and…… two months later the pandemic hit. Now it doesn’t take two years to unpack boxes so I had to find a Plan B. I had worked an often 10-hour day for the last several years of my life so adjusting to retirement was going to be challenging enough but confined to my new space, I was close to panic.