Alliance Green Team

"Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved." -Phil Harding

I love to share information on local stores and restaurants with friends and family. I think it is important to support local businesses that source their products sustainably with local farms and artisans. Promoting local resources brings us closer as a community by providing opportunities and also lowering our carbon footprint!

I noticed I woke up with a better attitude towards the next day & was able to sleep peacefully.

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold

My community has a Buy Nothing group where we post and gift items to each other. I have been able to benefit from this community group by giving and receiving. Today I posted a loft bed that one of my children have grown out of. This sharing economy not only strengthens our community by gifting and helping each other, but also prevents things...

Enjoyed painting bread at the SCA’s Barony of Wintermist Arts & Science night. I’m a much better scientist than an artist 🤣. Can you guess which ones mine?

I have invited the same people several times. I think once they join, they will see the value and impacts of the EcoChallenge. Mindfulness is a powerful tool.

“Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” - Rachel Carson

Here in dry Southern California, some native plants have adapted to our Mediterranean climate by fruiting and flowering in winter when more water is available. Manzanitas form dormant flowering shoots at the end of the previous year's spring growth that remain dormant until the next growing season, where they act like a "big toe testing...

Got my first little red berry and so excited to try one!! Not being a green thumb and really never having an interest in growing anything, I have really enjoyed watching this little thing thrive.