On a typical April weekend in the past, Candace “Chainsaw” Moser would be whirling around a roller derby track, smashing into competitors.
But with the Ohio Roller Derby league now in its second season of hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moser instead on Saturday was walking along S. 17th Street on the South Side, picking up cigarette butts and candy wrappers.
Along with her husband, Drew Stafford, and daughter Ember Stafford, 12, Moser was among about a half-dozen of her roller derby teammates who joined Saturday’s cleanup, organized by the nonprofit volunteer group Green Columbus as part of its Earth Day Columbus effort.
MORPC Matters: Take action, be part of this year’s Earth Day
Brandi Whetstone
Guest Columnist
Now that we are well in the month of April, Earth Day is around the corner, which is an important reminder of our responsibility to take care of this place we all call home.
We’re really fortunate in central Ohio to have abundant water resources, diverse landscapes and a regional parks and trails system that make our communities more attractive and livable.
Since 2007, Earth Day volunteers throughout central Ohio collectively have engaged in more than 100,000 hours of community service to plant trees and community gardens, clean up litter and perform other tasks. This movement, led locally by Green Columbus, has grown into the one of the largest volunteer-driven service events in the country for Earth Day, and that tradition continues in 2021.
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Alliance for Community Trees Groups are United in an Effort to Plant Trees for a Better Tomorrow
Alliance for Community Trees Groups are United in an Effort to Plant Trees for a Better Tomorrow
This Nationwide Network of Local Nonprofit Tree Planting Organizations is United in an Effort to Plant Trees for a Better Tomorrow
Published 12-31-20
Submitted by Arbor Day Foundation
Local impact happens when community-based tree planting organizations create projects that involve citizens, schools, churches, and government. This is the work of the 160 members of the Alliance for Community Trees program. These passionate nonprofit organizations are the boots on the ground a grass-roots network united in their purpose of improving communities and towns across the country with trees.
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Local impact happens when community-based tree planting organizations create projects that involve citizens, schools, churches, and government. This is the work of the 160 members of the Alliance for Community Trees program. These passionate nonprofit organizations are the boots on the ground a grass-roots network united in their purpose of improving communities and towns across the country with trees.
Never has the dedication of these organizations been more apparent than this past spring, as the world was gripped by pandemic. One such group is Green Columbus in Columbus, Ohio. In a community ranked first in rising urban heat island effect, Green Columbus has been hard at work to plant trees and curb the issue. Earth Day Columbus known as the largest Earth Day volunteer event in the U.S. needed to continue in 2020. The health of community residents depended on it.