Seven ways to literally make Rhode Island greener Plant and nurture shade trees to cool your house and yard Convert grass lawns to native plant beds and ground covers Grow fruits, vegetables and herbs among your flowers Use a push mower instead of a power mower and shears instead of a weed whacker Offer to […]
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Six ways to support a living system that supports us Learn how to take care of the trees closest to you Reject construction projects that destroy or fragment forests Volunteer with one of your area’s land trusts, or a land preservation organization Watch your city/town, as well as the state, for green space bonds Participate […]
Rhode Island is thickly settled and full of old buildings. If you want to build a new building, you have to tear something else down—either woodlands and meadowlands that help absorb our carbon emissions, or an existing building. Our historic buildings are a useful tool in fighting climate change, because maintaining them causes significantly fewer […]
Rhode Island’s central landfill will reach its capacity in 2038 if we continue throwing away food waste, and food scraps that end up in landfill produce the powerful greenhouse gas methane. Composting food scraps and yard waste reduces methane production and the land used for landfills. Household action: The basics of home composting: add […]
Climate change has the power to disrupt and endanger every natural and social system that we’re part of: our food, our health care, our homes, our surroundings. These systems can also help us survive the strains that climate change will place on all of us. Many of these relationships have to do with how we […]