Community Climate Resilience (CCR) is Meeting Tuesday the 7th of May, 5-7p at the Hall

Last monthly meeting till September.

The Repair Fair is coming up on the 1st of June. Drop by if interested in lending a hand on the day!

6-7p. Discussion of grey water and other water-conserving strategies that members have adopted.

If you have experience to share or want to hear what others are doing, please join us.
To contact CCR or to join the mailing list:
ccr@thetisisland.net

Remembering small friends, as they go into dormancy for the dry season:
"The beauty of mosses in a temperate rain forest is much more than visual, they play a vital role in creating it...Like pillowy sandbags set in the way of a river, clumps of moss slow the passage of rain down the trunk of a tree. As water flows over mosses, much of it is absorbed into the tiny capillary spaces of the clump. Water is held in tapered leaf tips, funnelled into tiny drainpipes to the concave basins at the base of every leaf. Even the dead portions of the colony, the old leaves and tangled rhizoids, can trap moisture... In a mossy cloud forest in Costa Rica the mosses absorbed 50,000 liters of water per hectare of forest in a single rainfall. It's easy to see how flooding follows quickly on the heels of deforestation. Long after the rain has gone the mossy tree trunks remain saturated and slowly release last week's rain...In addition, the cell walls of mosses are rich in pectin, the same water-binding compound that thickens strawberries into jam. The pectin enables mosses to absorb water vapor directly from the atmosphere. Even without rainfall, the canopy mosses collect water and slowly drip it to the ground, keeping the soil moist for the growth of trees, which in turn sustain the mosses."

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Community Climate Resilience Group