2024
Winter 2024 Green Noble Speaker Schedule
We’ve got three great ones, including this Sunday Jan. 14. All take place at the University Heights Library at 3 PM. Hope to see you there!
Jan. 14. Tami Matsuoka. Plastics Forever? After a semester’s worth of study, Green Noble member Tami Matsuoka will present us her thinking on plastics as a core environmental problem. Her take right now: “While recycling in general is still an important avenue to create a more circular economy, we cannot recycle our way out of the plastic problem. The only way to solve the problem is to ‘turn off the tap’ and stop producing single use plastic.”
Feb. 11. Gail Larson. Gail is CH City Council’s go-to member on sustainability and will give us some of her vision for the city’s eco future. By that time, the city’s formal Climate Action and Resiliency Plan will have taken more shape, and Gail expects to have more information about how Green Noble members can get involved.
March 10. Sunny Simon. Sunny is Cuyahoga County’s Chair of the Education, Environment and Sustainability Committee. She will talk to us about South Euclid’s bold experiment in deer control via sterilization. This may turn out to become our Cleveland Heights compromise position between those who favor deer culling and those reluctant to take animal life.
We’ve got three great ones, including this Sunday Jan. 14. All take place at the University Heights Library at 3 PM. Hope to see you there!
Jan. 14. Tami Matsuoka. Plastics Forever? After a semester’s worth of study, Green Noble member Tami Matsuoka will present us her thinking on plastics as a core environmental problem. Her take right now: “While recycling in general is still an important avenue to create a more circular economy, we cannot recycle our way out of the plastic problem. The only way to solve the problem is to ‘turn off the tap’ and stop producing single use plastic.”
Feb. 11. Gail Larson. Gail is CH City Council’s go-to member on sustainability and will give us some of her vision for the city’s eco future. By that time, the city’s formal Climate Action and Resiliency Plan will have taken more shape, and Gail expects to have more information about how Green Noble members can get involved.
March 10. Sunny Simon. Sunny is Cuyahoga County’s Chair of the Education, Environment and Sustainability Committee. She will talk to us about South Euclid’s bold experiment in deer control via sterilization. This may turn out to become our Cleveland Heights compromise position between those who favor deer culling and those reluctant to take animal life.
October 2023
The team from the OSU/UM/Noble Neighbors project considers sites for the project.
Hello, Green Noble!!
I know, I have been radio-silent this summer—partly due to the closed-for-renovation library, but mainly because of a whole lot of excruciating organizational “table-setting” that (regrettably) did not lend itself to much local participation. That table is now set, and I would like to invite you to participate in a few key steps that, hopefully, will lead to many others.
Cynthia has volunteered the use of her front porch, on Oxford Road, Sunday Oct. 8 at 3 PM, where we can resume our monthly meetings.
Here are some of the things I’d invite us to discuss:
1. The $1.6-million National Science Foundation project is finally underway. Our OSU/U. of M./local activist team of entomologists, sociologists, landscape architects has begun touring front yards in the Noble Neighborhood and East Cleveland. (See images)
2. We’ve received an $800 grant from the Presbytery of the Western Reserve (Thanks, Cynthia!) to install some demonstration pollinator gardens at Roanoke/Noble and at the Noble Elementary. Some quick immediate hands-on help needed and then again next spring.
3. We failed to win the $50,000 grant from the Unitarians for docent/teacher training in grade school insect education, but I plan to reapply to several potential donors next spring. It’s still a dynamite idea with highly credible partners.
4. Some great new (and newish) books offer an opportunity for expansive winter discussion. Sweet in Tooth and Claw (Kristin Ohlsen) relates cooperation in nature to a new approach to cooperation in human cities. Our Fragile Moment (Michael Mann) offers the latest thoughts from a great climate scientist. The Comfort of Crows: a Backyard Year (Margaret Renkl) talks about living with nature at home. You may have others to suggest.
I hope to see you all at Cynthia’s!
I know, I have been radio-silent this summer—partly due to the closed-for-renovation library, but mainly because of a whole lot of excruciating organizational “table-setting” that (regrettably) did not lend itself to much local participation. That table is now set, and I would like to invite you to participate in a few key steps that, hopefully, will lead to many others.
Cynthia has volunteered the use of her front porch, on Oxford Road, Sunday Oct. 8 at 3 PM, where we can resume our monthly meetings.
Here are some of the things I’d invite us to discuss:
1. The $1.6-million National Science Foundation project is finally underway. Our OSU/U. of M./local activist team of entomologists, sociologists, landscape architects has begun touring front yards in the Noble Neighborhood and East Cleveland. (See images)
2. We’ve received an $800 grant from the Presbytery of the Western Reserve (Thanks, Cynthia!) to install some demonstration pollinator gardens at Roanoke/Noble and at the Noble Elementary. Some quick immediate hands-on help needed and then again next spring.
3. We failed to win the $50,000 grant from the Unitarians for docent/teacher training in grade school insect education, but I plan to reapply to several potential donors next spring. It’s still a dynamite idea with highly credible partners.
4. Some great new (and newish) books offer an opportunity for expansive winter discussion. Sweet in Tooth and Claw (Kristin Ohlsen) relates cooperation in nature to a new approach to cooperation in human cities. Our Fragile Moment (Michael Mann) offers the latest thoughts from a great climate scientist. The Comfort of Crows: a Backyard Year (Margaret Renkl) talks about living with nature at home. You may have others to suggest.
I hope to see you all at Cynthia’s!