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The Healthy Yard Pledge is the TOP Priority of GCA’s Conservation Committee this year! Please go to the GCA website’s Conservation Committee home page and read about this pledge, and how you can make your yard healthy for family and neighbors, as well as for nature!
Read MoreThank you to all of the Ladies of the SLGC who called or wrote to their Members of Congress in support of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Read MoreThis month we are getting personal about your eating habits. Does this strike a little too close to home? We hope not, because its’s one of the easiest and most basic ways to do good both for your personal self and for the environment. Eat much less red meat.
Read MoreThis month we examine a very wide-ranging Position Paper, the essence of which is to ensure food security for the United States. You can find it and its support report here.
Read MoreWhat a timely moment to address glitter! Glitter is made of plastic and aluminum bonded together with polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Phthalates are endocrine disruptors and can cause serious health damage.
Read MoreThis month, we draw your attention to the GCA Position paper on Oceans. As with each Position Paper, this is only one page long and is laid out in simple bullet points in four categories: Pollution Reduction, Funding, Sustainable Resource Use, and Ecosystem Protection, Conservation, and Biodiversity.
Read MoreIn February of this year, along with Conservation and NAL representatives from national committees and clubs, Cynthia Druckenbrod and I heard a vast number of reports about Climate Change issues. The scientific findings we heard were not presented by partisan organizations, although we did subsequently hear from both Republican and Democrat Senators, Congresspersons, and Members of the Cabinet. The scientific findings presented track quite closely with those that have been presented this week in the press in the new IPCC Special Report. Despite political spin from almost every side, this evidence-based, fact-driven report is dire.
Read MoreDid you know that plastic bags are used on average for 12 minutes? Yet, they can last over 1000 years in a landfill. According to the GCA’s position paper on Waste Management, America alone uses over 380 billion plastic bags yearly!
Read MoreThis month, in keeping with our article on the GCA NAL Position Paper on Waste Management, we are asking you to begin carrying a few other things with you in your car when you go out. That begins, as Cynthia points out, with shopping bags.
Read MoreMonarch butterflies are everywhere in Cleveland! I have been raising Monarchs for years and have never seen as many as we have seen this year. I'm hearing the same story from many other butterfly lovers.
Read MoreA quick Intro from your Conservation and National Affairs & Legislation Co-Chairs
Life on Earth depends on plants, both those that we humans eat (broccoli? apples?) and those that our food sources eat (grass-fed cattle? millet-fed chickens?). To procreate, plants must be pollinated.
Read MoreQuestions about recycling? The following letter was sent to me from the County Recycling Center:
Read MoreThe Garden Club of America is made up of 200 members, which are independent garden clubs from across the United States. Shaker Lakes Garden Club has been one of these since 1919 – we are entering our hundredth year.
Read MoreAt our May 29 Membership meeting Cathi Lehn, from the Mayor’s Office of Sustainable and Sandra Albro, from Holden Forests and Gardens talked about the Sustainable initiatives in the Cleveland area. Below are links to Sustainable Cleveland, The Cleveland Tree Coalition, The Gardenwalk Cleveland pus dates for Sustainable Cleveland events this summer.
Read MoreIt’s almost like being there – well, not really. But a few of the presentations Cynthia Druckenbrod and I enjoyed at the GCA’s NAL Meeting are available, as slide presentations, on the GCA website. The quality of professionalism and research represented in these presentations is astounding. Rather than recap all of them for you, I shall take this opportunity to refer you directly to the original material itself.
Read MoreJ. Sterling Morton and his wife moved from Detroit into the Nebraska Territory in 1854. Morton became editor of Nebraska’s finest newspaper and used journalism to share agricultural information and his enthusiasm for trees.
Read MoreHow does the program work?
It's easy to participate. All you have to do is send us your old Christmas lights for recycling and we'll send you a coupon good for 15% off HolidayLEDs.com LED Christmas lights.
Read MoreDue to our strategic location in Northeast Ohio, Shaker Lakes Garden Club has an on-going conservation theme for conserving water and protecting the Great Lakes.
Read MoreThey came to Cleveland from far and wide to attend this year's GCA Conservation Study trip, ably organized and led by SLGC's own Jane Ellison. This is what's being said about the intensive study of Lake Erie, its beauty and its challenges.
"I will always think of the Great Lakes with new eyes and intelligent understanding from here on out.
Read MoreOn August first Tom Rapini and Valerie Garratt graciously hosted a group of Shaker Lakes members, one daring husband, and one guest from GCC at their farm in Mentor.
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