EcoRight News Blog
A compilation of news from the EcoRight.
Come here for the latest climate news from lawmakers, thought leaders, and rising voices in the EcoRight. Federal, state, and local issues and events are covered, and we feature commentary from EcoRight allies.
Climate Week En Review: Remembering
Is anyone else confused by the timing of Memorial Day? I keep thinking it’s one more week away, but actually, it’s Monday. The republicEn.org team honors those who have given their lives to protect our freedoms.
EcoRight Speaks, Season 10, Episode 13, featuring LanzaTech CSO Zara Summers
I had the pleasure of meeting LanzaTech’s Chief Science Officer Dr. Zara Summers when I was at EarthX. We were both presenters at the Women’s Earth Summit and she had me enraptured with the cool innovations she is leading for her company. Basically, she had me at the Athleta pants made with recycled carbon.
Climate Week En Review: Circumstance
It seems like all around me are high school and college graduates. If you are a graduate or you know/love one, I’m thinking of you and wish you (or yours) all good things as you figure out your place in this world.
Something’s in the air. Or maybe it’s the water.
At Fort Pulaski, less than 15 miles from Savannah, sea level has risen seven inches since 2010, one of the fastest rates of rising seas in the country. That sea level rise also brings saltwater intrusion into water wells on the coastal plain, affecting homeowners and farmers alike. Because of climate change, the Southeast is also more prone to dangerous heat waves, extreme weather, and risks to agriculture.
Climate Week En Review: Cheers!
Wow… did this week fly by or what? The second warmest April on record (coming in second to 2024’s April) is well behind us in the rearview mirror. Now Mother’s Day is Sunday (whoops, sorry Mom) and Memorial Day is a few weeks away. So basically it’s almost the 4th of July, which means it’s almost August recess.
EcoRight Speaks, Season 10, Episode 12, featuring Corporate Sustainability Thought Leader, Bob Eccles
Sometimes a person is just omnipresent, so you have to check them out. That’s the story with this week’s guest, corporate sustainabilty thought leader, Bob Eccles. A past guest (Shannon Fitzgerald O’Shea) connected us over email because she thought he’d make an excellent guest on the show.
Climate Week En Review: May Flowers
How are we already in May? I tell you what, I am ready for May flowers after all the March and April showers. Even though a hydrangea bush attacked me, leaving a scratch near my eye, and then a wasp stung me, I have been trying to spend a little time each day outside, watching the new blooms emerge and pulling those pesky weeds.
EcoRight Speaks, season 10, episode 11, reporting from EarthX
Listen, I'm a bit of an introvert, so I generally don't enjoy conferences. But I LOVED EarthX. I found it inspiring to be around so many people from different industries doing their part to solve...
Climate Week En Review: Honoring Earth Day
This year’s Earth Day, the 55th anniversary of the first ever such day, founded in 1970 at the nascence of America’s environmental awakening, found your republicEn.org team spending the day in different ways.
EcoRight Speaks, season 10, episode 10, featuring Evan Patrohay, blogger and ACC volunteer
Our executive director Bob Inglis was in Charleston for the YR conference, where he met today’s guest. Evan Patroay is a one-time Fulbright Scholar, a volunteer with American Conservation Coalition, a blogger, so check out his blog, Thoughts of a Conservative Environmentalist, and for his day job, works as a Conservation and Restoration Program Coordinator for the state of South Carolina.
Climate Week En Review: Rabbit, Rabbit
TGIF, Happy Easter, Happy Birthday to the three people I know with birthdays today… This weekend will find me playing tourist in DC, showing around a high school friend and her daughter. Hoping for good weather and a panda sighting (within the confines of the Zoo, of course).
EcoRight Speaks, season 10, episode 9, featuring the Sludge Hub king, Jonathan Leonard
I love meeting someone randomly, which is how Jonathan Leonard came to be on this show. The founder of The Sludge Hub, a shared work space (so to speak) for abandoned mine lands restoration, he had reached out to me to share opportunities to join them for an “externship” (tune in to hear more) and I thought what he is doing sounded cool. Tada!