No doubt fruit foraging is happening somewhere, somehow in Denver, but I don’t know about it. In the meantime, you can get an edible forest planted in Kansas City, and you can go forage for...
I read Joel Makower’s interview with William McDonough on Green Biz and felt that I had met a kindred spirit—about packaging, that is. McDonough is a designer, an architect, an entrepreneur...
The Local Food Summit in Denver, organized by the Mile High Business Alliance, was informative and great fun. But the strongest memory I took from it is of the woman who asked this question at the...
I’m working on changing this blog into more of a how-to site that tells people how to do little restoration projects on their own or get involved with groups that do bigger projects. Since...
Mexican poet Homero Aridjis has been working to save Monarch Butterflies for decades. He was one of the people who persuaded the Mexican government to create the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve...
On Saturday I hiked up Spruce Gulch, off Left Hand Canyon Road in Boulder, to see the weed research and eradication projects being conducted there. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and...
The National Forest Foundation will spend the next five years planting trees in an area of Angeles National Forest that was scorched to the dirt. The Station Fire, alleged to be arson, started in...
I live on a cul-de-sac in a suburb of Denver with a superb view of the mountains and sometimes hellish winds in the winter. My husband and I have lived here almost 15 years, and we’re about to...
“River of Raptors“: The title of this article from the September–October issue of Audubon sends shivers down my spine. And the way they describe the spectacle: “Day after day...
Did you know that oceangoing predators sometimes rip off sea turtle flippers? And that there’s an organization on South Padre Island, Texas, that cares for such injured animals? It’s...
I felt very lucky after reading an article in Ms. magazine about women and the various movements to change food production and consumption in the United States. I live in Denver, and there are so...
Yes! magazine’s summer 2010 issue focused on water, and my favorite article therein described the ongoing restoration of the Feather River watershed in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California...
Actually, this is not a post about sewage. It’s a post about turning trash into energy, as in Back to the Future III, when Doc comes back and starts dumpster diving to power his spaceship. As...
The Front Range of Colorado (the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains) is a good place to be if you’re green. I was just reading the August edition of the Denver Voice (the monthly newspaper...
Jonathan Chase of Washington University in Saint Louis devised his own experiment to test whether randomness contributed to diversity in restoration projects. He made a bunch of ponds in big metal...
On the “About” page of this site, I made this sarcastic comment: “We can incorporate habitat restoration into most existing uses of lands. (Mountaintop mining…not so much.)”...
When I think of beloved trees that have disappeared, I don’t think of chestnuts but of elms, which disappeared from the Kansas City area in the 1970s. I grew up on a street shaded by a canopy...
What impressed me most about this project to restore the Ojai watershed (Ojai is east of Santa Barbara) was the number of groups involved and the care that went into planning. The Ojai Valley Green...
From Louisiana, still dealing with the effects of Katrina and other hurricanes: The South Lafourche Levee District is trying several experimental restoration techniques, including partnering with a...
Turns out New York has more to offer than skyscrapers—specifically, the muck from the bottom of its harbor that is going to be used to rebuild salt marsh islands in Jamaica Bay, east of Manhattan...
Southern California is not usually thought of as a hotbed of eco-restoration. Yet a nonprofit in Irvine, California, has discovered how to educate the public about restoration and pay its own way by...
Restoration efforts at a decommissioned Occidental Chemical Corporation site in Whitehall, Michigan, have won the approval of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Efforts began in the mid-1990s...
It took until 2002, but the Coast Guard, with the help of some recreational scuba divers, finally discovered what was causing seemingly random oil spills along California’s coast near San...
Courtesy of Conservation Maven comes news of a constructed wetland in the Netherlands that removes pollutants from a river, helps control floods, and produces biomass to generate energy. Sounds like...
An island is “made” in Loch Crochag where trees can thrive, away from grazers such as deer and sheep.