This tiny demo green roof was completed for a Buffalo Show House project. Photo Buffalo Rising/Queenseyes A story about Spokane and Seattle illustrates the dichotomy inherent in making sustainability part of city planning. When he was mayor of Spokane in 2001, John Powers proposed a green roof for Spokane’s City Hall. Chicago’s City Hall had [...]
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetBiologists have known for a long time that some creatures evolve more quickly than others. Exactly why isn't well understood, particularly for plants.. […]
An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th c. […]
Who knew? I've gotta read more TMZ, I guess. But his Mirimichi course recently opened and we learn that it "implemented sustainable resource management principles that incorporate wildlife conservation, habitat rehabilitation and enhancement, water conservation, and water quality protection." It's also the first golf course in the US to...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetThe New York Times has an interesting discussion of Lyme disease this week–mostly interesting for how few answers it offers. Opossums as tick eliminators is intriguing. However, there are surely many other warm succulent creatures in the woods that ticks feed on that are less good at biting them...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetCentered on the small town of Hudson, Quebec, the first municipality in North America to ban common lawn and garden pesticides nearly two decades ago, the 80-minute film explores a landmark case decided in the Canadian Supreme Court in 2001. After the Court’s 9-0 verdict against the billion-dollar lawn...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetThink of this not as a request for money, but as an experiment in new media (okay, and a request for money). Oh, and as an investment in the future of our cities! THE PITCHLewis Ginter Garden in Richmond VA is holding an awesome conference on Urban Gardening and...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetGoogle's been in the news lately for having hired 200 goats to "mow" the grounds around their California headquarters. But I'll go parochial here and brag on the mowing goats of Maryland: The State Highway Administration is using them to mow around highway bypasses where the threatened bog turtles...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetIn Scientific American. Hat tip to Judy Lowe of the Christian Science Monitor. Photo by Antonio Machado.
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetTwo young American women helping the poorest of the poor in Haiti turn human waste into fertilizer? Very cool, even inspiring. Their project is called SOIL (for Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods – a mouthful). And here's a video about it (apparently not embeddable).
Read more in: Gardening on the Planetby Guest Ranter Joe Lamp’l They say that ignorance is bliss. I say that ignorance is killing our planet. I seem to be a lot more sensitive these days to wasted opportunities to be eco-friendlier. As a lifelong passionate gardener and one who has always appreciated and respected nature,...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetMy friend Gerald's vegetable garden. God, what's next? Cannibalism? Allison Arieff is one of my favorite New York Times bloggers. The founding editor of Dwell–a magazine so stylish and committed to its subject that I read it regularly even though I am not interested in modern design–she's always worth...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetWhy are doomsayers always so cheery? My friend Jim Kunstler–author of 2005's The Long Emergency, a fantastically prescient book about our unsustainable oil- and derivatives-fueled economy, and subject of Ben McGrath's recent story in The New Yorker, "The Dystopians"–is one of the more playful thinkers I know, really optimistic...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetHe’s #1, so far … Whatever may happen over the next months and years, this has surely been a memorable past few days, and I have been as caught up in them as anyone. It makes me think of the types of policies I would hope for, particularly in...
Read more in: Gardening on the PlanetFotolia image of a Tennessee waterfall Yet another reason to use as little coal-generated electricity as possible is provided by a 12/22 eco-disaster in Tennessee, where 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash sludge from the Kingston Fossil Plant now covers 400 acres of Harriman County. An earth...
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Commented on Cats in the Garden - Solutions Only { Susan, glad you saw our post, and thanks for sharing it. I hope the tips help someone. I so enjoy Garden Rant, by the way!... } – May 22, 6:37 AM
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