2020 Life Logs, Day 91: Climate Change in the Era of COVID-19
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, Sunshine Late Day; High 40 degrees, Low 30 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 pm, Heather is hosting a webinar on Climate Change in the Era of COVID-19. The intended audience ranges from middle and high school students to scientists to the general public. If you would like to attend, just Google Woods Hole Research Center Spring Webinars, click on Spring 2020 Webinar Series—Woods Hole Research Center, scroll down and click on Register.
Climate Change in the Era of COVID-19
Heather Goldstone, Chief Communications Officer
with opening remarks by Phil Duffy, President & Executive Director
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been compared to climate change at warp speed. Heather Goldstone will introduce what we know about the causes and increasingly apparent impacts of climate change, and explore connections between the COVID-19 and climate crises – including the need to ensure that pandemic response policies also advance climate preparedness.
REGISTER
My early morning emails brought more good news from Puerto Rico. One of Justin and Jo’s nanny goats had twins and both were girls—Opal and Pearl. In the last few days they have welcomed a new foal named Barnaby, baby bunnies, and now kid goats. A true celebration of spring in these otherwise dark times. I made some cleaning progress at Heather and Jed’s new house today while Heather, Jed, and boys worked and schooled at home. I had some ‘technical difficulties’ with hooking up a hose to start cleaning the front entrance to the house, but in the late afternoon Jed arrived with Ollie and Jonah and solved my leaky hose hook-up. Hopefully I can complete that project tomorrow. I also took advantage of the washer and dryer at the new house today and did my first laundry in a machine since the first week of March. I have been doing great at keeping up with the essentials by washing them in a 5 gallon bucket in the bathtub, but it was great to have the use of a washing machine and dryer to do jeans and winter sweaters. Hopefully those sweaters can be stored away until next year. When I got home, I spent some time preparing for my Thursday Memoir Writing Class on Zoom. And then I just kicked back, relaxed, and caught up on the daily news—not relaxing. On to tomorrow.
