Society members participated in the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20 in both Teaneck and New York City and attended NJ Gov. Phil Murphy’s Town Hall in Teaneck on Sept. 25. Janet Glass asked the governor how allowing fracking to produce natural gas was compatible with climate science.
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Growing World Population Strains Resources
Within a little more than a decade, projections say, world population—at 7.7 billion people today—is likely to be around 8.5 billion people; by 2050, almost 10 billion. The growing population is a strain on basic resources, including food, water, land, and minerals.
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Biodiversity: Life Depends on It
By Dr. Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Dr. Reba Goodman About 66 million years ago, a six-mile wide asteroid hit near the Yucatan Peninsula, setting off a chain reaction that wiped out […]
Ready for Your Signature: Letter Seeking Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ
Our Social Action Committee, headed by Dan Rosenblum, has written this letter to NJ Gov. Phil Murphy to ask that he keep his campaign promise to focus on renewable energy […]
Society members join March for our Lungs to protest power plant
Members of our Ethical Culture Society participated in March for our Lungs on May 18 in Ridgefield. Organized by students from around the state, the march protested plans for the […]
Letter to Gov. Phil Murphy on Failure to Block Power Plant
Our Society’s Social Action Committee, headed by Dan Rosenblum, has written this letter to Gov. Phil Murphy, expressing disappointment over his failure to act to block the proposed North Bergen […]