The Blog Archive

  • U.S. Report on Environmental Cancer Risk

    Submitted by sarah on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 8:38am

    The President's Cancer Panel, formed in 1971 to advise the president, released an extraordinary report yesterdary warning of the risks of cancers caused by chemicals in the environment.

  • Conventional lawns and global warming

    Submitted by sarah on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 2:14pm

    New research has found that mowing and other lawn maintenance emit almost as much or more greenhouse gases than the well-tended grass extracts from the air.

  • Robert Wright, the Dandelion King

    Submitted by ashley on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:11am

     

    The Dandelion King

    Here is a wonderful commentary published in the New York times about our weed-free lawn obsessed nation.  Check out the comments they're pretty good too! 

  • Designer Bee Walls...

    Submitted by sarah on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 4:36pm

    The article below is about creating habitat not for honey bees but for native bees. Bee walls and bee houses can help to bring back solitary, native and stingless bees that, while they do not make honey, will provide the pollination mechanism that is needed to maintain biodiversity and healthy gardens and plants. Artistic bee wall designs shown range from the Zen to the whimsical and even alien!

    Encouraging Native Bees with Insect Walls

     

  • James Bond Prefers Push Reel Mowers

    Submitted by sarah on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 9:47pm

    "In London, October had begun with a week of brilliant Indian summer,
    and the noise of the mowers came up from Regent's Park and in through
    the wide open window of M's Office. They were motor-mowers and James
    Bond reflected that one of the most beautiful noises of summer, the
    drowsy iron song of the old machines, was going forever from the
    world...At least the cut grass would smell the same." - For Your Eyes
    Only, Ian Fleming, 1960

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