Eco Warriors

Barriers include structural issues in society and in corporate settings. They are demonstrated by prevailing perceptions of gender and leadership. They are presented in forms of prejudices and discrimination. Women's responses to these barrier also complicate the issue. The difficulty in juggling work and personal life, particularly caring...

Here are some steps I can take each day to reduce my electricity usage: Shutdown my computer.(Computers are some of the biggest energy users in office buildings). Choose energy efficient lighting. Unplug idle electronics. Use a power strip to reduce your plug load. Turn off the lights. Use a programmable or smart thermostat.

In our region you can look up online to see what is advised by area and what is safe to eat for adults, woman and children. I’m not a huge fan of seafood but what I do eat follows guidelines. However I am working on incorporating additional seafood choices into our dinner menus. 

We use the left over vegetable pieces when we make homemade soup or just broth. We also use the leftover parts of fruit for baking muffins. When we make mashed potatoes we use the whole potato skin and all. 

Going paperless.... One more item on the list of living a more sustainable life. This month, I have consciously begun to choose electronic billing statements instead of paper statements.  Saves paper and postage.

Donate unused items After a long, busy month of the Eco Challenge and preparing our dad's home for sale due to his passing, the house sold and we will donate the items that were left to stage his home. Number 18 on the list of ways to live amore sustainable life.

I’d rather use this money on things I like to do, day trips, travel, by books, donate to charities etc. 

Research suggests that education helps women better understand the dangers of global warming and prepare for disasters.  In Drawdown, Hawken argues that one of the most effective solutions to climate change is educating women and girls. Education and environmental education empowers women and girls to be more effective and resilient stewards of...

Domestic violence against women is "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Body image is one issue related to girls...

I have connections to both farms and farmland. I was born and raised on a dairy farm.  Generations of my family were dairy farmers. As an adult, I married into a family with property of several hundred acres of farm land, bordering state land in the Adirondacks.  No longer an operating sheep farm, it's a NYS designated tree farm with a saw...