This is the fourth and final offering in Middletown Meeting’s Learning to Live in a Changing Climate series.
This on-going series is directed to individuals, students, households, clubs, and organizations that will benefit from specialists in their field offering hands-on, helpful suggestions that can be implemented by all. Despite increasing coverage of climate change in the news, the level of useful every-day knowledge is very uneven. Globally and nationally, we learn of fires, floods, rising temperature, and destruction of our natural environment. In comparison, the need for methods individuals can utilize are not readily available.
On Sunday, June 22nd the Middletown Friends Meeting will host Robin Hoy, founder of the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance and liaison to Congressman Fitzpatrick for Citizens Climate Lobby, to provide a presentation that will consider the food choices that make a difference. According to Hoy, “There are simple and powerful actions we can take to reduce our carbon footprint each and every day.”
With increasingly extreme weather events, droughts, forest fires and rising sea levels threatening coastal properties and water supplies, concerned citizens wonder what they can do and worry that nothing makes a difference. But one thing we all do every day is make food choices, and they can make a surprising difference in the greenhouse gases we produce.
Robin will discuss the fossil fuels involved in getting our food to our table as well as foods that reduce the fossil fuels needed. She will address the new trend toward regenerative agriculture and what that’s about, and discuss foods and agricultural practices that take carbon out of the atmosphere and sequester it in plants and soils. The presentation will also consider what makes our food more resilient and secure in the face of the changing climate.
This program is free to the public. Light refreshment will be served. The meetinghouse is handicap accessible and there is ample parking.
Robin Hoy has been an advocate for climate action and environmental justice for more than 30 years. In addition to her work with the Foodshed Alliance and Citizens Climate Lobby, she holds a Master’s in Environmental Studies from the U. of Pennsylvania. She is co-chair of the Wrightstown Township Environmental Advisory Council, chair of the Wrightstown Farmers Market committee, former Bucks County Coordinator for the PA Interfaith Climate Campaign and former ecology professor and social worker.