tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78841347855449107342011-06-25T03:10:17.760-07:00Today's elderly generation has unwittingly exploited the earth in the mistaken belief that its resources were infinite. With better knowledge, we seek now to repair that damage and leave a better heritage to our children and grandchildren.GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-29739685116743403862008-05-07T07:25:00.000-07:002008-05-07T07:31:06.050-07:00<a href="http://nsccgrayisgreen.org/index.shtml#news">National Senior Conservation Corps News</a> <br /><br />A new feature has been added to the National Senior Conservation Corps site that features good environmental news and tidbits for things YOU can do to personally help green up the earth.<br />Please send your own good news and activities to <a href="mailto:turnbonnie@gmail.com">National Senior Conservation Corps News</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-2973968511674340386?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-51398846689901020132008-03-02T05:26:00.000-08:002008-03-02T05:28:49.558-08:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >In the spirit of Kyoto 1997 and Bali 2007, the Whitney Center Residents Council today passed the following resolution addressed to the Whitney Center Board. Note that the Resolution is not binding until the Board passes it, but it does put on the agenda a program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by Retirement Communities.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >BE IT RESOLVED that the Whitney Center Residents Council urges Whitney Center management, residents, and Board to commit their resources and talents to reduce emission of greenhouse gases to a level 5% below the level estimated for 1990. If this commitment requires outside professional assessment of emission rates, provision for such assessment is included as part of this resolution. Management is requested to provide annual reports on progress toward this goal.<br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Cheers,<br />Bob Lane, Chair, Whitney Center Green Council, www.grayisgreen.org <a href="http://www.grayisgreen.org/"><http://www.grayisgreen.org/></a> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-5139884668990102013?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-7448210595851437732008-03-02T05:25:00.001-08:002008-03-02T05:25:19.399-08:00<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Dear Fellow Conservators:<br />Think of it this way: in a world of brownfields and sprawl, each continuing care retirement community is a GREEN STATION radiating the conservation ideology and practices for the benefit of neighbors and the very planet we inhabit. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-744821059585143773?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-76469039303788622622008-03-02T05:24:00.001-08:002008-03-02T05:24:33.367-08:00<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Dear Friends:<br />The purpose of our retirement community conservation committees is conservation, not therapy. But, on the way to achieving reduction of energy and emissions of CO2, recycling waste more efficiently, reducing pollutants in air and water, and educating ourselves and our friends in the arts of conservation,intrusive thoughts about the lives we have led may well occur. What have we done with the one life given to us that justifies the resources we have used up? The devotion of our parents? The privileges we have enjoyed? If these ruminations, like most ruminations about the self, make us blue, adjust the color spectrum: turn green. In these few years remaining, give something back to the society that nurtured us. Give to our grandchildren and <i>their</i> grandchildren a greener planet, restored to health.<br /><br />Bob Lane, Chair, www.grayisgreen.org</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-7646903930378862262?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-17178370807274198462008-01-27T09:01:00.000-08:002008-01-27T09:16:38.297-08:00<a href="http://www.forestcamping.com/">Forest Camping</a><br />Visit this site for information about camping, RV camping or tent camping in America including campground reviews, camping pictures, recipes, books, and a camping glossary.<br />Consider this quote from Suzi Dow, founder of the site, in a letter to me:<br /><br /><i>"Just think about how important our national forests are to the environment.<br />(Talk about impacting carbon footprint calculation!) Did you know the<br />total area of our national forests is a little more than our original<br />13 colonies? Or that the number of trees dying in our national<br />forests is growing every year and contributing hugely destructive<br />wildlifes? It is estimated Alaska's national forests alone have lost<br />enough trees to cover the entire state of Connecticut!"</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-1717837080727419846?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-7221868023952219322007-10-08T13:48:00.000-07:002007-10-08T13:53:04.466-07:00Is writing about it and demonstrating the benefits through our own experiences and bills enough to change the world one at a time? Do we have the luxury of letting new green ways to live gradually spread by word of month?<br />What more should each of us be do as we learn and adapt new ways to live?<br /><br />bt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-722186802395221932?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-47869111560172096102007-10-08T13:40:00.000-07:002007-10-08T13:43:36.547-07:00Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stay cool while working inside besides settling in front of a fan?<br /><br />bt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-4786911156017209610?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884134785544910734.post-67085997164716042512007-10-06T09:07:00.000-07:002007-10-06T09:13:35.000-07:00Beginning the blog that will allow us to communicate with each other is the fast new way to communicate quickly within our group and allow anyone else who is concerned with our issues to keep up with the conversations we have.<br />Look for directions and information on our website<br />grayisgreen.org<br /><br />bt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7884134785544910734-6708599716471604251?l=grayisgreen.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GrayisGreennoreply@blogger.com0