Can the West Coast Stop Using Coal?
Apparently those crazy Californians or, I should say, crazy Angelenos, think they can reduce L.A.'s use of coal for electricity [...]
Restoration Company? Interface Carpets
I realized that to get to an economy that restores, the United States requires companies that restore. And I went [...]
Efficiency Is the New Sexy
Just found what seems to be an enduring link to an August 2009 article from Science magazine: "Leaping the Efficiency [...]
How Esoteric Restoration Can Be
Denver Botanic Gardens has launched a conservation genetics program to "accompany and enhance [its] rare plant monitoring, habitat restoration and [...]
Wetlands Mitigation Banks: Good for Everyone?
Swamp School alerted me to this editorial in The Columbian about the Columbia River wetland mitigation bank in Clark County, [...]
Coral Restoration: In Its Early Stages
Having just seen a headline about "experts" wondering if coral reefs will survive global warming, I am happy to discover [...]
Longleaf Pine THE Tree to Plant in the South
Longleaf pine is becoming the tree of choice for restoration efforts in the South. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in [...]
Plant a Billion Trees
Now here's a whopper of a project: restoring Brazil's Atlantic forest, which covered 330 million acres when the Portuguese arrived [...]
Metzger Farm in Broomfield To Be Restored
Metzger Farm, which since the late 1800s has been located at the corner of Lowell and 120th (north of Denver [...]
The Restoration Economy: Global for the First Time
In Chapter 3 of The Restoration Economy, Storm Cunningham provides a list of the ways in which the current "restoration [...]
The Restoration Economy: Restoring Our Entire World
Storm Cunningham's book The Restoration Economy has a good quote on just about every page, but I can't possible fit [...]
A Bit of Hope About Restoration
A July 2009 article in the Christian Science Monitor (going through my old Delicious bookmarks, folks) noted that ecosystems may [...]
Two Dams To Be Torn Down in California
Don't be fooled by that headline. It's true that the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River and the Matilija [...]
New Superfund Sites Announced
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn was 1 of 10 Superfund sites announced March 2 by the Environmental Protection Agency, ending a [...]
Community-Based Resource Management
This is an old article, from 2005. I found it when I was searching the business section of the Earth [...]
Oceana Is Worth Checking Out
From Organic Lifestyle magazine, I learned about Oceana, a nonprofit that since the early 2000s has been focusing on protecting [...]
Time to Rethink
Eighteen months ago I started this blog with high hopes that I would make money off the Internet. Although I've [...]
Denver Photos: Commons Park Bridge Railings
I featured Commons Park Bridge in an earlier post. You can see the railings below in the bottom left corner [...]
Guadalupe River To Be Reconnected to SF Bay
It's been 7 years coming (or, perhaps, 80), but in a few years the Guadalupe River will be reconnected to [...]
Denver Photos: Commons Park Bridge Patterns
I both love and hate to walk this bridge. It connects Commons Park, a park landscaped with native plants along [...]
Denver Photos: 16th Street Bridge over I-25
Denver bridges are the subjects of my photos posts this week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. One of my favorite [...]
Denver Photos: Globeville Elyria Swansea, pt. 3
My first post about the Cross Community Coalition's Environmental Justice Tour, on Monday, presented a poorly lit picture of the [...]
Denver Restaurants: Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill near DU and D Bar Desserts in Uptown
I feel odd writing a review of two restaurants right in the midst of publishing my photos from Globeville, Elyria, [...]
Denver Photos: Globeville Elyria Swansea, pt. 2
When I joined the Cross Community Coalition's Environmental Justice tour on February 17, one of the things tour guide Michael [...]
Restoring Wetlands: How Difficult It is
Conservation Maven had a post about a study done by University of Illinois researchers, "Study finds post-restoration wetland succession highly [...]