Shreveport Garden Study Club is sponsoring an event to explore the topic, said Michele Wiener, in a press release. It is bringing the program here in conjunction with Shreveport Green and LSUS. Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins will introduce the speaker, LSUS Chancellor Larry Clark and Shreveport Green Executive Director Donna Curtis
Social psychologists such as Jonathan Haidt have documented that much of our decision making takes place based on instinct, influenced by those we consider to be members of our “tribe,” and that our intellect is used to confirm that choice.
Sophie Glovier and Kim Haren, both team members with C-Change Conversations, meet with Evan Dawson in the Connections podcast to discuss climate change.
There was no bashing of fossil-fuel companies, no mention of the Green New Deal, and no talk about the dark money influencing politicians and public skepticism. President Trump and other powerful deniers of the climate crisis went unnamed.
Kathleen Biggins receives standing ovations for her presentations on global warming.
Two local garden clubs, Rusticus Garden Club and Bedford Garden Club, have partnered with Bedford 2020 to provide community members with an opportunity to learn about the potential impact of climate change on their health and safety, the economy, and geopolitical security.
If saving the planet isn’t reason enough to address climate change, maybe saving some money would be appealing. Taking an economic approach to clean energy, several multinational businesses have pledged to source 100 percent of their energy needs from renewables by 2020 or sooner.
It’s a rainy Monday night in a tree-shaded neighborhood of stately homes in Princeton that you wouldn’t think would harbor a hotbed of left-leaning politics.
The GCA’s annual NAL conference in Washington, DC, is thought-provoking, eye-opening, and often game-changing. Tis last was the case in 2014, when two members of the Garden Club of Princeton and two from Stony Brook Garden Club, both in Zone IV, attended the conference.
On a blustery day in February 2013, Kathleen Biggins came in from the train station, put her bags by the kitchen table and sat down to do some research. She had just returned home to Princeton, NJ from the annual GCA National Affairs and Legislation (NAL) conference in Washington, DC.
