Citizens Climate lobby Roscommon/Crawford Chapter

                                               Roscommon/Crawford Chapter  Progress in Reducing Air Pollution Michigan has a number of power producers across the state but our supplier in Roscommon and Crawford counties is Consumers Energy, one of the leading suppliers in Michigan along with DTE. I recently looked at my bill from Consumers Energy to track my contribution to air pollution. I was astounded to learn that from my average use of 530 KWh (kilowatt-hours) of electricity per month, I caused 8,756 pounds of CO2 to be released to our atmosphere on a yearly basis. 8,765 pounds! It seems like an extraordinarily large quantity of pollution since I rate myself as being a careful consumer, turning off unneeded lights and other electronic gadgets when not being used. (To calculate your emissions, see the EPA web page at https://www.epa.gov/egrid/power-profiler#/RFCM  To find more information about my emissions record, I asked my computer ‘how clean is the electricity I use? The simple

  Roscommon/Crawford Chapter This blog is a bit different from my normal sort, but since the election is soon, the old typing drill is appropriate, “ Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” Not being a climate change denier is not enough, Now is the time to be a climate change supporter. Read, listen, help, plan, speak out, speak up, march, and most of all VOTE. It will help our nation to become ‘good citizens’ in the world-wide struggle to save our planet. A problem that is related to climate change is our penchant for contaminating our environment with trash. I decided to take on a small piece of this problem, specifically straws. Yes, straws. Did you know that straws are part of a huge problem? We use billions and billions of straws in the US not to mention the additional gazillions used world-wide. They are everywhere. And that is the problem: straws end up polluting our rivers, lakes and oceans. California tried to solve the straw proble