Be the Change Weekly Community Update July 23, 2021
Looks like great weather on Saturday. Get your ticket(s) here. $10 / $25 option to add membership in Simply Living This award winning community garden is NEW on our Tour…
Sunrisers rally across Ohio for expanded, clean public transit
This past Saturday, July 17, members of youth-led climate organization Sunrise Movement and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1 mobilized and rallied across Ohio for expanded, clean public transit.…
Our testimony on the Pleasant Prairie Solar Energy Center
Note: The public hearing on the Pleasant Prairie Solar Energy Center, a 250 MW solar project proposed for southwest Franklin County, was held Monday, July 19, 2021. Here is testimony…
Simply Living files comments on oil and gas waste disposal rules
Eight years ago, the Ohio legislature ordered the state's Department of Natural Resources to come up with administrative rules for how waste from oil and gas facilities would be managed.…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update July 16, 2021
Simply Living Garden Tour Facebook Photo Contest! ACTION: Attend the Simply Living 2021 Sustainable Living Garden Tour on July 24. Register here: bit.ly/SLGardenTour Take a selfie or other photo at…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update July 9, 2021
Register Now Raffle Prizes for $25 Ticket Owners at the Garden TourHave a $10 Ticket? Upgrade here to enter the raffle.Odds of Winning? Excellent! So MANY Donations! Awesome BASKET of…
Ready for 100 Ohio conference charts path to clean energy
When the Ready for 100 campaign launched in Ohio in 2017, no cities were committed to 100% renewable energy. Now we have commitments from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Lakewood, South Euclid, and…
Be the Change: Weekly Community Update July 2, 2021
Learn about 2 Declarations of Interdependence on the NewStories.org websiteVersion #1. The very first such Declaration, created in 1945 at the close of World War IIVersion #2 A recent Declaration…
We need your support for solar energy in Franklin County
Last year Columbus and Grove City residents voted in a landslide to transition their electricity supply to 100% renewable energy. Partly as a result of these victories, dozens of solar…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 25, 2021
Simply Living 2021 Sustainable Living and Garden TourSaturday, July 24 from 10 am – 3 pm Tickets $10 or $25 with Membership Included. Register Now Mort Schmidt presented again this week,…
Columbus Groceries – Love Local, Live Local!
by Kyle Garvey *North Market is a 145-year-old covered market space, representing Ohio's best independent merchants, farmers, and makers. Their Columbus location is 59 Spruce St. (43215) and their Dublin location…
Columbus and Grove City should stick with Clean Energy
Note: The following op-ed piece by Simply Living Executive Director Cathy Cowan Becker appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on June 19, 2021. You can read it on the Dispatch site…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 18, 2021
“Won’t it be wonderful when Black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou SIMPLY…
Cleaner Columbus Initiative Partners to Address Litter with Jobs and Volunteers
City Council Member Emmanuel Remy Op-Ed in the Dispatch, June 15 Council Member Emmanuel Remy, Chair of the City's Environment Committee Jenny Garin, an elementary school teacher, and her sons,…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 11, 2021
Ohio Broadleaf Tree Identification-Parts 1 @ 2 Wednesdays June 16 and 23 7 - 8 pm Virtual Slide Presentations with Q&A Know our trees by their leaves (bark, fruit, flowers…
Simply Living wins Comfest grant for People’s Solar Project
Simply Living is thrilled to announce that the Comfest grants committee awarded the People's Solar Project funds this year! The People’s Solar Project is a project to create a demonstration…
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 4, 2021
See Simply Living's new blog post with ideas about celebrating World Environment Day. Thanks to Regina Loayza for this post. Break Free From Plastic Pollution Teach-In & Actions June 30…
Happy World Environment Day!
Celebrate the 49th World Environment Day on June 5th! It’s often said that we have three homes: our bodies, our families (physical home) and our planet, Mother Earth. This upcoming…
Columbus Tools
Summer's here and it's about time for some home improvement. But owning every tool you need, while obviously impractical and far from cost-effective, just doesn't fit into a sustainable and…
A birthday wish
My birthday is coming up this week -- Friday to be exact -- and I have one wish: A new data management system for Simply Living. When I became executive…