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The Spring Equinox is on its way!

The brown buds thicken on the trees, Unbound, the free streams sing, As March leads forth across the leas The wild and windy spring.

–Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911)

National Umpbrella Month→ March usually marks the end of the cold months and the beginning of spring, when the trees begin to bloom again, and we can all go back outside without wearing seven jumpers. Traditionally, we celebrate the first day of spring on March 21, but astronomers and calendar manufacturers alike now say that the spring season starts on March 20th, in all time zones in North America.

In 2020, spring fell on March 19th, the earliest first day of spring in 124 years! Regardless of what the weather is doing outside, spring equinox marks the official start of the spring season. In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere (also called the March equinox or vernal equinox across the globe) occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator going south to north. It’s called the celestial equator because it’s an imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator.

Equinoxes are the only two times each year that the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth! While the Sun passes overhead, the tilt oftheEarthis zero relativeto the Sun,whichmeans that the Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun. But, however, the Earth never orbits upright, and is always tilted on its axis by about 23.5 degrees. (Source…The Old Famer’s Almanac).

For women all over the world, March 8th is a time to take stock and amplify our collective voice. This year, the theme for the UN International Women's Day is 'DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. Climate change is often defined as a “threat multiplier.” For many women and girls around the world, it is also enacting, and at times creating, new limitations and obstacles in attaining basic rights. When disasters strike, they are likely to produce and reenact social, economic, and political inequalities along gendered lines. But at times, these are also generative moments that allow us to be reflective about structural inequalities, to critically assess them and to reimagine ways in which we can address them.