Bard Raptors Protect Our Ecosystem

Very interesting - Eco challenge is a good way to reflect on these goals in a. way I never thought about before.

I hit all my “one time” events save one: “plant a tree” since Bard Arboretum’s event Friday conflicted with the Difference and Justice symposium. I hereby pledge to plant a tree in May! We also picked up a shrub at Red Hook’s Arbor Day event yesterday so that’ll go in today- close! Thanks for a great challenge of a month!

I got some dill weed seeds (at yesterdays earth event) which “produce showy clusters of yellow flowers that will positively buzz with pollinators, large and small. Lacewings, ladybugs, hoverflies, braconid wasps, tachinid flies, and more” and is eaten by swallowtails eastern black swallowtails. I’m excited to see what life happens next. Maybe...

Last day of the challenge and finally mended the sweatpants. It’s been a on my mind to do for a YEAR. it took five minutes and I feel good! Got something done

Today was Arbor Day/ Earth day tabling sponsored by Dutchess County and I had four hours of conversation with volunteers doing SDG work throughout the county. From pollinator gardens to repair cafes, to libraries of local to watershed stewards, we are all pointed toward a thriving planet for all

Today two students emptied out cigarette urns on campus. The gloppy smelly mess stained their (gloved) hands and (Tyvek-covered) clothes and made them gag but they stuck with it and even picked up the butts that people had tossed in the ground just next to to urns. I’d say today we saw how smoking impacts others.