Blog by Rev. Enno K. Limvere, President of Green Aberdeen At our Board meeting, we starting to think about the questions we want to ask Aberdonians about what they see happening in our community and world, what we should be focusing on as an organization, a community, and our local government? We are partnering with Read more about What’s green got to do with it?[…]
by President Enno K. Limvere Not a great news day with the White House signalling that the United States of America has signaled we are leaving the Paris Climate Change Accords. We are the only nation who is leaving, and then will be one of only 3, which include Syria and Nicaragua. Which means that Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Rev. Enno K. Limvere October 22, 2019 Warning: Contains Politics During the 1970’s when the United States had an oil shortage and started to make a concerted effort to switch our country off of its dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Even Exxon made some investments into hybrid technology for cars and President Jimmy Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Blog for Green Aberdeen Rev. Enno K. Limvere, President According to an article on our Green Aberdeen Facebook page by EcoWatch, “Planting more than 500 billion trees could remove around 25 percent of existing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found. What’s more: there’s enough space to do it.” Aberdeen City Council is Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Blog for September 24, 2019 By Rev. Enno K. Limvere The Chautauqua went off well. We had 8 speakers and almost 50 in attendance. Good weather, good food, and good music capped off the day. I had on our schedule for 5 speakers for each about 25 minutes, but most were brief so we are Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Rev. Enno K. Limvere September 17, 2019 This Friday there is a world-wide strike that is happening to draw attention to the crisis of global climate change. A young teenager named Greta Thunberg starting striking her school on Fridays because she wondered why should she continue to learn if the world is being destroyed now. Read more about What’s Green got to do with It?[…]
Blog for September 10, 2019 Rev. Enno K. Limvere, President of Green Aberdeen Our Green Aberdeen membership met out with Margaret James at Easton Castle last night to put some of the final touches for our Chautauqua. You can check out our event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1536496206486408/ Last year we partnered up with the Easton Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
September 5, 2019 Now that we have the ability to apply for grants, Kim Vandover, Cassy Bitz, and I explored some grants that we can apply for. Some groups we have found are: Aberdeen Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, 3M Environmental Grant, Knight Foundation, Wells Fargo Environmental Foundation, Kresage Foundation, and Patagonia. We Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Green Aberdeen has now got initial approval for our 501(c)3 and we hope that we will soon get final approval. However, we can now apply for grants and people can give tax-deductible donations to our group. We are one step further in our journey to help Aberdeen, SD become a carbon-neutral/zero-waste community. There are some Read more about What’s Green got to do with it?[…]
Reflecting on Earth Day Rev. Enno K. Limvere, President of Green Aberdeen Green Aberdeen began with a vision that our community will become a zero waste/carbon neutral community in 30 years. I admit, this is a big goal, and seemingly too short of a time line, for us to even contemplate that it could be Read more about Reflecting on Earth DAy[…]