Conservation
Homeowners Can Preserve and Create Wildlife Sanctuaries Right in Their Own Backyards
The New Conservation Movement: Home Wildlife Sanctuaries I’ve been reading “Nature’s Best Hope” by Doug Tallamy. Doug Tallamy is an award-winning author and professor at the University of Delaware. There, he also serves as the chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology. Tallamy specializes in studying the way insects, plants and ecosystems interact.…
Read MoreHealthy Ground for a Healthy Environment
Two articles on the benefits of cover crops to soil health crossed my desk this month. The simultaneity of these articles piqued my curiosity. One article, “A Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past,” was in the New York Times and the other, “Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere,” was in Environmental Health Perspectives’, a National Institutes…
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THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE RED FIRE MONKEY! We all know that the monkey is a clever and playful animal who can be an effective problem solver but also a trickster. As we celebrate 2016’s Year of the Red Fire Monkey, there should be exuberance, entertainment and time for devoted entrepreneurs to carry on…
Read MoreNature is here to stay. Are we?
Nature is speaking. Will we listen? In time? Watch these beautiful vignettes about specific elements of nature – water, the forests, soil, flowers – appreciate the glory and power of each as expressed in the narration that accompanies each gorgeous self portrait – including a feature of mother nature herself. The message is clear. Nature is…
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