Shall We Dance?
On Saturday night I took my brother to his first dance performance. It's always an adventure figuring out what my [...]
No More Big Dams
This story from Cultural Survival magazine's spring 2010 issue makes me so sad. An American company, AES, has been given [...]
Beth as Dirty Harry and 007
As I hoisted my first gun ever, Kevin mentioned that my hands weren't shaky. Since I was clenching my arms [...]
Trout Headwaters: A River Restoration Company
Just discovered a new restoration company: EcoBlu River, Stream, and Wetland Renewal. Check them out.
Wading Birds Nests Quadruple in Florida from 2008 to 2009
Wow! There were an estimated 77,505 wading bird nests in south Florida in 2009, a much larger number than in [...]
Nobody Is Making Us
I often ask myself why Americans don't recycle more. I've lived in my current home for 14 years and the [...]
Stealing Toilets
It seems fitting that the first post on a blog recently retooled for the anxious middle-aged adventuress should be about [...]
Gold: No More Mining
My father-in-law brings by his copies of National Geographic from time to time, to add to the backlog of Sustainable [...]
A New Start—Almost
I'm in the process of updating my website. I've got a new theme—Thesis—and I'm customizing it. It may take a [...]
Restoration: How I See It
Since January, I've been writing about land and water restoration projects on this blog, but I realized in June I [...]
My Crazy Idea to Help Seabirds
I took a walk around Stearns Lake in Boulder County this afternoon, and I saw 1 white pelican out in [...]
Will a Berm Stop the Oil?
Out of desperation, the state of Louisiana has decided to build up to 90 miles of berms to catch the [...]
Bog Turtles Cute, and Disappearing
Through the federal Landowner Incentive Program, New York has expanded a program to get private landowners to protect habitat for [...]
Randomness in Restoration
Jonathan Chase of Washington University in Saint Louis devised his own experiment to test whether randomness contributed to diversity in [...]
Gulf Oil Spill a “Generational Event”
The top kill didn't work. There are other options, none of them good. British Petroleum can put a new platform [...]
Tongass Plan to Sustain Small Communities
Remember the Tongass? The forest on Alaska's panhandle that has been a flashpoint for conflict over forest management for decades? [...]
Can Degraded Sites Host “New” Ecosystems?
On the "About" page of this site, I made this sarcastic comment: "We can incorporate habitat restoration into most existing [...]
Who Put That Pollution There?
Through my Google alert for "Habitat Restoration," I went to a page on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website. [...]
Oil Spill Pictures
"Problems That Require Restoration" is the understatement of ... this century? Here's a picture of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [...]
New Green Jobs Page
Check out the new page listing websites where you can search for green jobs. I've also included organizations that provide [...]
This Blog Is Dirt!
I just watched Dirt! The Movie, and afterward I said to my husband, "This movie is my blog." The movie [...]
To Market, to Ecosystem Market
The title of this article could be the theme song of this blog: "It's Not Easy Turning High Environmental Value [...]
American Chestnuts, Coming Back
When I think of beloved trees that have disappeared, I don't think of chestnuts but of elms, which disappeared from [...]
Restoration Company: Nokes Landscape Design
Jill Nokes is a landscape designer living in Austin, Texas, who provides management plans and consulting services to owners of [...]
Farmer’s Wife Stands Up to Factory Farms
Lynn Henning just won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work monitoring concentrated animal-feeding operations (CAFOs), or factory farms, that [...]