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...
MillerCoors in Golden used to produce 135 tons of trash per month. Now they send none to the landfill. None. That’s almost enough to make me drink Coors. MillerCoors Brewery Now Recycles All...
The Problem: How Plastic Becomes Pollution Plastic collects in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. It breaks down in sunlight (photo-degrades) into small pieces. Birds such as albatrosses, turtles, and...
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...
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...
Ed Self, executive director of Boulder nonprofit Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, had a great article in the spring 2011 newsletter. I’m going to quote from it here. We normally think of...
Divers have found deep-water reefs (up to 500 feet) thriving off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico, in a area where shallow-growing corals are struggling. The deep underwater landscape they...
A local blogger I know from Boulder Media Women has posted a wonderful article about taking care of human and natural communities. Priscilla Stuckey is very compassionate about people’s...
Last Friday I slipped into the Local Foodshed Commons and Conference, part of Boulder County’s Eat Local! Week sponsored by Transition Colorado. There are so many groups working on increasing...
I know plastic travels that far because the trash exhibit I saw in 2004 at the Centro Ecologico Sian Ka’an (CESIAK) includes some plastic from Poland that had washed up on the beach in Mexico...
There’s no getting around it: The Dirt is a great blog. I could spend all day reading it and learning about new contests and restoration projects. Here are the posts I selected from about 20...
Out of desperation, the state of Louisiana has decided to build up to 90 miles of berms to catch the oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill. Some of these miles and miles of sand embankments...
Through the federal Landowner Incentive Program, New York has expanded a program to get private landowners to protect habitat for certain species. The new beneficiary? Bog turtles, a small, chestnut...
Through my Google alert for “Habitat Restoration,” I went to a page on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website. It’s about a project in preparation, I would say: the...
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...
Lynn Henning just won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work monitoring concentrated animal-feeding operations (CAFOs), or factory farms, that moved into the rural area of Michigan where she...
In an earlier post today, I noted that West Coast cities want to wean themselves off coal. “End of Big Coal?” A related article in Yes! magazine (“End of Big Coal?” [winter...
Apparently those crazy Californians or, I should say, crazy Angelenos, think they can reduce L.A.’s use of coal for electricity generation from 40 percent of the city’s total electricity...
I realized that to get to an economy that restores, the United States requires companies that restore. And I went looking for such companies. An interview in Sustainable Industries magazine led me...
Denver Botanic Gardens has launched a conservation genetics program to “accompany and enhance [its] rare plant monitoring, habitat restoration and invasive species research.” It will...
Having just seen a headline about “experts” wondering if coral reefs will survive global warming, I am happy to discover that at least 1 group is not waiting to act until all the coral is...
Conservation Maven had a post about a study done by University of Illinois researchers, “Study finds post-restoration wetland succession highly variable.” The researchers “found...
The Obama administration has released a five-year plan to deal with threats to the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, announced in February 2009, has now progressed to the point of...
I have this stack of magazines in my house that I’ve been meaning to get to for a year or more, most of them for this blog. The oldest one, the November-December 2007 issue of Audubon, had an...