by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 25, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
Last week was a good one for the Cape’s environment. Town meetings in Mashpee and Orleans decisively approved important articles that support improved environmental quality. In Mashpee the town voted to fund the next round of wastewater management and Orleans acted to...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 11, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
Some things, say world peace, curing cancer, or affordable healthcare are really complicated, while many others are thought to be, but really aren’t. The questions about the wisdom of local initiatives to empower towns to control the application of pesticides and...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Oct 4, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
It’s dark later in the morning and earlier in the afternoon. Fall flowers are starting to fade while late season pollinators load up on the remaining food they provide. I have not seen a hummingbird in about a week and the winds now blow more northerly than not....
by Andrew Gottlieb | Sep 27, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
The Healey administration recently issued a sweeping and forward looking executive order (EO) promoting and protecting biodiversity in Massachusetts. This order recognizes that in preserving biodiversity we are really protecting ourselves. The EO succinctly states the...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Sep 13, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
While the weather in Mashpee on Sunday was far from the hoped for fall crispness many of us have been anticipating after a very humid summer, it was nothing like what my neighbors in Sandwich were experiencing. Sure, the sky looked a little ominous to the north, but I...
by Andrew Gottlieb | Sep 6, 2023 | What I'm Thinking
Having spent the last several days in the Canadian Rockies, a place as contrasting from Cape Cod as any place in the world, I was struck by the vastness and size of everything. The mountains are big, the streams are big, and the views are big. Also big were the large...
