TWO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
A message from Elsa Higby, RCY Environmental Committee Chair:
We have 192 lbs. to go and only two more plastic collection days to meet the Trex recycling goal. It’s a little too close for comfort. For those of you who intend to start collecting, please use these last two months of this campaign and bring in your plastic!
As for meeting our OP District Challenge, listed below are some action items from the complete list of eligible activities found here. You will find more resources at this link, such as garden design, recipes, and a list of books to read.
1. Promote OP topics on social media consistently. At least monthly. When you do this, send Elsa the link: 10 points per 10 posts. (Perhaps we can divide this up between a few of us? Email Elsa if you are interested at elsahigby@gmail.com)
2. Plant a pollinator’s garden (at least eight varieties of native plants) in your community or in a club member’s yard—15 points per garden.
3. Host an event for your community. This may be educational and include inviting community members to a meeting with a relevant speaker. Have a mixer or club meeting to invite prospective members and serve pollinator cocktails (see link above) 10 points per event.
4. Grow a native plant or milkweed in your yard, window box, or pot. OR choose another project from the resource packet or on the back of this page.
5. Read a suggested or related book or article, and for extra points, share takeaways with the club during fellowship or in the club’s newsletter. 1 point per article read. If you share takeaways at a meeting, we get an extra point. Here are a few suggestions:
a. The win-wins of climate and biodiversity solutions – Project Drawdown
b. Bio-diversity: our strongest natural defense against climate change – United Nations
c. The link between climate change and biodiversity – Xerces Society