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General News: Shaping a Low-Carbon Diet
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| Carole Hunt became more aware of environmental hazards after a bout with cancer. |
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| Workshop members will use this book as their guide. |
March 03, 2009
Two Cornwall-on-Hudson women are inviting members of the community to join them in a project to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we produce in our daily lives.
Carole Hunt and Sally Wortmann will be running a series of four workshops to help people reduce their energy consumption following the steps laid out in the book “Low Carbon Diet,” by David Gershon.
Carole Hunt says that she wants to help her friends and neighbors understand how small steps can make a difference in improving the environment. Hunt has been spreading the word about how to make these changes for several years. A trained counselor who raised four children, it wasn’t until she developed breast cancer in 2004 that she realized her home was a toxic environment.
“I looked around at my home and realized that I made choices every day, like at the grocery store, buying cleaning products that were very toxic,” she said in a phone interview. “I looked at the things we throw into the landfills, like batteries and electronics whose heavy metals leech into the watershed and comes back up as rain.”
With her cancer in remission, Hunt set out to try to make a difference. She launched the Green Expo at the Methodist Church in Cornwall in 2008 and has taught at Mount Saint Mary’s College, where Sally Wortmann also teaches.
Wortmann, a retired teacher in the Cornwall school district, has been an active environmentalist, gardener and outdoor enthusiast for years. Last year, she ran a discussion group based on a book by Barbara Kingsolver, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,” about sustainable agriculture. She is coordinating the workshops that will be held beginning March 5 at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center off Route 9W in Cornwall.
Hunt says that the “Low Carbon Diet,” is a fun, interactive format for people to learn about the large and small choices they make every day that impact the environment. Members of the workshop will talk about their own lives and in the process build a shared community of ideas, she says.
Click here for more details about the dates and times the workshop will meet.
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