RC Sustainability Committee, Dakota Rural Action sponsor first-ever Earth Day Trail Challenge
May 2, 2021
RAPID CITY, S.D. If you love hiking and cleaning up nature to help the forest stay healthy, the Rapid City Sustainability Committee has the just the thing for you.
The Committee, along with Dakota Rural Action, sponsored the first-ever Earth Day Trail Challenge, which helps continue Earth Week by getting people outside to hike while picking up garbage on the trails.
To participate, you must hike the Skyline Amphitheater Trail, Hanson-Larson Memorial Park’s Far West Trail, and the State Game, Fish & Parks Natural Trail at Outdoor Campus West.
Your editorial, “Biden climate pledge resonates in Maryland even if not with its governor” completely misses the mark in its insinuations about the environmental record of Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration.
ALANA JAJKO ajajko@susquehannagreenway.org
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Members of the LHU ROTC and two local Boy Scout troops assisted with 2021 River Town Cleanup Week, which removed 200 pounds of trash from Triangle Park and the downtown area.
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Over the course of the week of April 18 25, 2021, six river towns organized events that attracted hundreds of volunteers and collectively removed thousands of pounds of trash from area parks, trails, and communities along the Susquehanna River.
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Thanks to current technology, the economics of utilizing solar and wind energy have suddenly and dramatically improved, according to a new report.
The Carbon Tracker Initiative, a financial think tank studying the path to a low-carbon future, reveals a “collapse” in the cost of renewable energy over the past three years in a study titled “The Sky’s the Limit,” a little-noticed report flagged by The New Yorker this week.
According to the report, solar and wind have the potential to meet 100 times the current global energy demand, and over 50% of today’s renewable technical potential also has economic potential. By the end of the decade, that 50% grows to over 90%.