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The Westside Blog
Dec 13, 2024
Green Sanctuary: Fall and Winter Days
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee The Green Sanctuary team has been busy in the past few months. Several of our activities have...
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Nov 19, 2024
The Right to Repair
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Key principles to reduce our environmental impact include the 5 R’s, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse,...
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Oct 14, 2024
Electric Vehicles Can Reduce Climate Warning
By Charlie Dudney, with Yetta Jager, of the Green Sanctuary Team Recently, the Southeast has experienced unprecedented hurricanes...
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Sep 17, 2024
Getting Real About Plastic
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee We are all addicted to plastics. Plastics have lowered the cost and increased the practicality...
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Aug 21, 2024
A Sense of Place and Environmental Justice
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Located in an affluent and fast-growing suburb of Knoxville, we are not far from the...
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Jul 17, 2024
Westside's Homegrown Flowers
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Delivering a bouquet of Dutch roses requires 27 kg of CO2-equivalents. A Valentine’s Day...
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Jun 26, 2024
Eco-Anxiety
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Green Sanctuary Blog (6-15-24) Eco-anxiety We’re headed into a hot summer. This week, heat...
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Apr 18, 2024
Turn! Turn! Turn!
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee For everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn. And a time for every...
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Mar 20, 2024
Baby Steps Toward Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Baby steps toward reducing our carbon footprint Our climate is changing faster than expected....
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Feb 21, 2024
A Dream for a Greener World
Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Perhaps one of the most famous speeches in popular memory is one delivered by Dr. Martin Luther...
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Jan 17, 2024
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Trees are good for us, locally and globally. Forest restoration is a promising strategy for...
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Oct 26, 2023
Green Sanctuary Test Post
By The Green Sanctuary Committee This is a post as a test.
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