By Marianne MacQueen
As Faith Morgan told me in a recent interview, it is difficult to wrap our heads around the magnitude of the problems we have created through our reliance on fossil fuels. We are embedded in an extractive economic system, living lifestyles that are destroying life on the planet, she explained.
Recognizing the environmental crisis, Village Council, of which I am the vice president, approved a 2021 goal to create a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. The Environmental Commission is currently reviewing a draft plan that builds on earlier work of the Yellow Springs Resilient Network, as well as that of former commission member Duard Headley.