Archive for July, 2024
Summer climate alert!
26Jul24
As we sweat our way through yet another “hottest summer on record,” it is important to remember one thing: it’s all our fault. If we hadn’t defiled Mother Earth with our damnable human penchant for invention, technology and civilization, the planet would have remained a Garden of Eden with a temperature that’s 1.5 degrees cooler […]
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Tags: 1816, animals, birds, civilization, climate, Climate Change, crops, drought, earth, Eden, electricity, environment, famine, fossil fuels, frost, gas, gasoline, Global Warming, heat, hospitals, Humor, ice, internal combustion engine., invention, Keith Heidorn, Labor Day, lights, Mark Sardella, nature, New England, oil, Opinion, Paradise, planet, Politics, rain, Red Sox, seasons, sheep, snow, summer, sustainability, technology, temperature, Wakefield Daily Item, weather, wind, winter
Minority leaders
12Jul24
The vast majority of people use cars to get around. Only a tiny minority ride bicycles. So naturally, Wakefield is in the process of taking nine feet of driving lane away from motorists in order to create a separate lane for bicycles on North Avenue.
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Tags: 18-wheelers, Art, automobiles, ballot question, bicycle lanes, bike lane, cars, climate, Climate Leader Communities, cyclists, ecology, environment, golf, Humor, majority, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, MBTA, museum, Opinion, pickup, Politics, roads, Stonehenge, sustainability, SUV, truck, two-wheeler, vote, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Warrior
Mark Sardella 