Category Archives: Inspiration

South Korea recycles 95% of its food waste

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Sandwich Climate

Composting is a way we all can help reduce greenhouse gases. If food waste goes to landfills, it become noxious methane gas. A much bigger problem than most of us realize. If composted, it sequesters carbon and also makes great … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King on Living Together

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Sandwich Climate

Here is a quote from Martin Luther King that everyone in the climate change movement should take to heart: We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the … Continue reading →

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Rural Community Solar Farms: A Maine Example

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Sandwich Climate

Earlier we wrote about how Taos, N.M, is establishing solar arrays that could service up to 18,500 homes. Mount Desert Island in Maine is doing the same on a smaller scale. Communities like these are worthy of the Sandwich Climate … Continue reading →

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Stanford Professor’s Vision of Our Clean Energy Future

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Sandwich Climate

Mark Z. Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University, has mapped out how countries worldwide can transition to mostly wind, water and solar energy by 2050; But we have to start now. He writes in CleanTechnica In this new … Continue reading →

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Taos, NM can be clean energy model for rural America

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Mark

Taos, New Mexico is one of more that 150 cities and towns across the USA that have made the pledge to commit to a goal of 100% reliance on renewable sources of electricity by 2030 and for all other energy needs, … Continue reading →

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Inspiration, Part II: The Drawdown Project

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Sandwich Climate

The Drawdown Project helped SCCC steering committee members Katherine Thorndike and Leonard Witt visualize the possibilities for attacking global warming on individual and societal levels. Its vision statement inspires us most: Stopping global warming is possible, with solutions that exist … Continue reading →

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Pachamama: What Inspires Us, Part I

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Sandwich Climate

Katherine Thorndike, who along with Leonard Witt and Peggy Longley, all of Sandwich and all on the steering committee, pointed us to the Pachamama Alliance. Here is why it inspires us: Pachamama Alliance, empowered by our partnership with indigenous people, … Continue reading →

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How We Decided to Join the Fight to End Global Warming

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Sandwich Climate Admin

The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition (SCCC) began with a post on the Sandwich Board, our town’s public listserv, which is really like a small town newspaper. Everything gets posted there from lost dogs, to things for sale, to news about … Continue reading →

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