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Another wonderful shopping idea is to look at Suzy Peabody’s artistic redesigned knitted clothing from beautiful discarded sweaters and other clothing items that she has turned into works or art to wear from vests to scarves and hats and mittens. Another green idea is to go to you can give a gift for as little as $20 that goes towards sponsoring wild places. They buy from thrift stores and flea markets to collect great items to be rebuilt and reborn. In Andover a shop called Izzy’s is making one of a kind reworked vintage outerwear. Mother Earth has always been here for us, this holiday make your gifts count for her future. Our “handmade” future whether made by knitting needles or machinery assembly lines has the opportunity to look the same. As we bring joy to our family and friends this holiday I hope we can give in a new way so we can be part of saving our precious earth that is only on loan to us. Can you just imagine how many tons of carpeting is in our man made mountains of waste!Įverything we own or buy or give away, or even touch has a carbon footprint. Read “The Ecology of Commerce” by Paul Hawkins and see how that book inspired him.įree Style Flooring in Stoughton also recycles their carpeting. Now his company’s greenhouse gas emissions are now down 83 percent and his profits have doubled by recycling his product. With 5 billion pounds of carpet product ending up in landfills, Ray realized he wanted to change this, and so he did. It’s still the same action, but if we don’t see it that way then we’ll never notice how dirty the dish is that we are returning.Īnother industrial revolutionary is Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Flooring in Georgia. Do we return food from a friend in their dirty dish? I don’t think so! We can look at the way we live our lives the same way, only on a larger scale. What we give to her shouldn’t make her sick any more and what we take from our Earth can be returned in a better way. Everything we do in our yard affects our neighbors next door or across the globe. Would we put a factory in our yard, nuclear power plant waste, a dump, a coal mine, a stripped mountain top, the electronic recycling facility that poisons those separating the toxic parts? You say “no” but we are doing exactly this because our yard is larger than the boundaries of the next door neighbor’s fence. Giving back to our planet in safe ways can be part of our holiday thinking. There is not a vision or a sense of smell, taste, hearing or touch that does not come as a gift to us from the Earth in some way.

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Mother Earth has given us free gifts unconditionally that are ours from the moment we open our eyes to closing them at the end of each day. To leave anecdotes of your interactions with Roberta, please visit holiday season we can choose our gifts in order to help our planet. for those wishing to follow.ĭonations in Roberta’s memory may be sent to the Pancreatic Research Center at the Dan Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Barrett & Cotter Funeral Home at 1328 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI will lead a procession to the cemetery at 9:30 a.m. at Oak Knoll Cemetery, Tremont Street at Park Street, Rehoboth, MA. She was loved by her friends and looked up to by her students, colleagues and the many people she touched.įriends are invited to attend her graveside service on Saturday, Jat 11:00 a.m. She vacationed in NV and took a wonderful trip to China in 2019 and saw the Terra Cotta Warriors of the Emperor and then hoped to see Alaska, the last of the 50 states to visit, before becoming sick.

Roberta never met a stranger and truly enjoyed traveling. She also found time to be the Secretary of the Gaspee Point Homeowners Association over the last 16 years and was a founding member of Cross Lights organization helping new immigrants assimilate into the community. She found her dream job teaching at Bristol Community College at their three locations for over 13 years, mentoring students of all ages to meet their science requirements for nursing school and other degree programs.

Because that was part-time, she also taught Chemistry and Biology at Coyle/Cassidy High School in Taunton, MA, and worked at Brown University and affiliated hospitals. She was the daughter of the late Milton Todd and the late Mildred Bradley Todd.Īfter graduate school, Roberta became a Realtor for Prudential Real Estate until she surreptitiously was offered a job at Newstream, LLC in Attleboro, MA. Todd of Attleboro, MA and Warwick, RI died peacefully on July 15, 2021, after a long illness.

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