Posts by Ann Podlipny
My concern is that some of these important educational values might be compromised if this bill to reduce academic supervision and accountability is passed.
This 117 mile long river supplies water to over 600,000 residents along its shoreline including Manchester and Nashua. The Abenaki, Wabanaki and Pennacook Peoples have protected its watershed for over 10,000 years.
Plastic pollution begins with production. Our Manchester Coca-Cola Company is fueled by good intentions, its corporate purpose ‘to refresh the world’. It helps mitigate the impacts of climate change by ‘using 35% to 40% recycled material in our primary packaging, including increasing recycled plastic use to 30% or 35% globally, as well as collecting 70% to 75% of the number of bottles and cans introduced into the market annually’. Yet, harnessing 100,000 to 150,000 gallons of water daily from the industry’s primary source, the Merrimack River, for the purpose of beverage production, would seemingly put the river at risk.
Joe Whitten started his company going door to door in Manchester to collect his neighbor’s old clothing (a version of the local ‘ragman’ of the 1950s) A ‘rags to riches’ story indeed, with a felicitous ending since the environment and our communities have benefited so greatly.Â
The man and the river were meant for each other. Barring ‘ice in’ he removes garbage daily, year round, including weekends- furniture, appliances, toys, hundreds of tires, bicycles and old cars, phone booths, water soaked clothing, shopping carts and thousands of plastic bags along with used needles and other refuse.
Get in the habit of bringing a reusable bag with you when you shop and try real reusable cups, dishes and silverware for your holiday entertainment.