A nice article in Baristanet in advance of our viewing party Sept 15th.
excerpt: A single storm — even one as big and bad as Hurricane Irene — doesn’t prove anything. But two years of extreme weather is the beginning of a pattern, says Monclair native Greg Mattison, and it’s making people wake up to the issue of climate change. “People are starting to say, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime,’” Mattison says. Even close by, he says, major Passaic River flooding used to be a 5-10 year event; now it’s “at least once if not two or three times a year.”…
A quick note to mention the Bergen Record published a nice piece about my last Climate Project presentation in today’s paper’s (Local sec). The pro/con comments are in full swing below the article. Please weigh in with a quick comment, I’d be most grateful. The more interest in stories like these, the more likely we are to see reporters out covering environmental news. Thanks, Happy New Year! http://tinyurl.com/47uktjj
Since Green by Design TV and NewlyGreens began, we consistently get requests from townships asking to air the show. We are always so happy to get those requests and this past month is no exception. Our newest addition is Monmouth County, NJ. NewlyGreens is now available to all of those towns on Comcast channel 21 and Cablevision channel 77.
Here come the leaves! While you’re out picking up Mother Nature’s doin’s, take the opportunity to give back to your soil by composting. At the most basic, you can use a mulching lawnmower to mow your way to a healthier yard (and save yourself some backbreaking labor). With a little more effort you can collect your leaves to use as your “Browns” stock all year long. The golden rule of compost is 50% Greens / 50% Browns layered together like a lasagna. Sprinkle in finished compost as the “Cheese” to get things started. Whenever you add food waste (Greens) add a shovel full of your leaves (Browns) to control smells and insects. Turn once a week.
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 23 percent of the U.S. waste stream, as documented by EPA. An estimated 56.9 percent of yard trimmings were recovered for composting or grasscycled in 2000, a dramatic increase from the 12 percent recovery rate in 1990.
Our friends at William Paterson University WP88.7 FM have invited us up to the station for a recurring environmental spot every other Tuesday. Connie won’t be able to share in the fun this semester as she is working toward her teaching certificate, but Greg got a chance to talk some politics… See our blog posts (links below) for more on the Bills discussed.
Lots more shows coming… Stay tuned for episodes featuring highlights from the Global Green Expo, Schools going green, organic wines and much much more!
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Green By Design TV just won 3 2008 Telly Awards for News, Entertainment, and Information. The Telly Awards are a peer reviewed award open to all cable programming. Telly award winning episodes are available for viewing in the Podcast section of newlygreens.com.
