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Category Archives: Environmental Awareness/Action
Living Sustainably: Native plants are beautiful and beneficial
By Sarah Irvin, DeGraaf Nature Center This growing season, you can help reintroduce native plants to our otherwise cultivated landscapes of non-native or invasive plants and monocultures of green grass. Including native species in your yard will bring beauty to your life; benefit our local ecosystem, and save you time, money, and energy! Here are some of the …
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Living Sustainably, Get Ready to Roll in Green Commute Week
By Carolyn Ulstad, Macatawa Area Coordinating Council Spring is a time to reinvent, refresh and reflect on how we want to proceed through the warm months ahead. For most of us, after enduring the long winter, spring means spending as much time outside as possible. My own warm weather goals involve promises to myself to see the beach …
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Happy Earth Day! – April 22
Climate change. Oceanic garbage patches. Deforestation. Endangered species. Oh, the environmental woes we have in the only place we call home. Let’s talk about creation care then, especially for Earth Day. Earth Day is celebrated every April 22. First commemorated in 1970, Earth Day now includes events in more than 193 countries, which are coordinated …
Living Sustainably: Two events address business sustainability
By Michelle Gibbs and Paul Lilly, Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute Businesses are emerging as significant players in the environmental/social movement because of their opportunities to implement solutions while still following principled business methods. Two upcoming events provide opportunities for businesses and community members to learn about ways to support the “triple bottom line” – the business approach that …
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2019 HOPE COLLEGE STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH PROJECTS
In Holland, we believe that in order to become a vibrant, world-class community we must look at all aspects of our community. This includes the “Triple Bottom Line” and the economic, social, and environmental impacts we all have. Our City of Holland Sustainability Committee has created a seven-pillar framework with “lenses” to help us evaluate and make …
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Living Sustainably: MAX Transit again offers efficient access for Tulip Time
By Shelby Pedersen, Max Transit There’s no need to tiptoe to the tulips this year – or walk or drive downtown, for that matter. The Macatawa Area Express (MAX) is again pairing with Tulip Time to offer an inexpensive way to avoid parking and traffic problems during the festival that begins May 4. To avoid traffic and …
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Spring into Sustainability this Earth Month!
Below is a listing of some of the fun things happening around the greater Holland area that you can participate in to learn more about our Earth and how to protect it. Be sure to also check out the events on the calendars for the Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute, Outdoor Discovery Center, DeGraaf Nature Center, City Parks, and our county …
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Living Sustainably: Kids can learn to be sustainability leaders
By Susan Ipri Brown and Shana McCrumb, Hope College “We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.” – Dr. David Grinspoon “Think of your kids and live sustainably.” How often do we hear such statements as …
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Living Sustainably: Water, water everywhere? Not so much, anymore
By Paul Sachs, Ottawa County One of Ottawa County’s most alluring features is its water. For as far as the eye can see, Lake Michigan’s crystal-blue waters lap up against our expansive sandy shoreline. Twenty-four miles of coastline provide the perfect backdrop for walking, swimming, kayaking, boating, and fishing. But what we can’t see, and something that is …
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