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Waste Not When Moving

June 24, 2011
by Beth

Todd and I sold our house on Wednesday and left Broomfield, Colorado, on Thursday. We put some things in a 10 by 15 storage unit, but most of what we owned ended up being given away, sold, or...

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Possible Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Bees and Other Species

May 22, 2011
by Beth

Bees, bats, birds, and amphibians have been experiencing declines worldwide since the mid-1990s, but the problem has become truly terrible since the early 2000s. Researchers have noticed these...

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Plastic in Their Tummies

March 31, 2011
by Beth

Inspiration. It’s what we all need, right? So head on over to Midway Journey on Facebook. A small group of people traveled to Midway Atoll to take still pictures and video of the birds of...

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5 Gyres Sails to South Pacific Gyre

March 18, 2011
by Beth

California nonprofit 5 Gyres Institute will conduct a study of the plastic pollution in the South Pacific Gyre, sailing a boat from Valdivia, Chile, to Easter Island. The group has already sailed...

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Reuse Now, Clean Up Less Trash Later

February 14, 2011
by Beth

As part of Rodale’s Plastic-Free February, I have been looking for items that don’t contain plastic. Although I have not succeeded in avoiding plastic during the first two weeks of February, I have...

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Forest Restoration for Raptors in Veracruz

January 26, 2011
by Beth

“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...

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Women Trek to End Trafficking

January 4, 2011
by Beth

Two Denver-area women, Stephanie Peller of Broomfield and former Broomfield resident Tais Field, plan to climb Kilimanjaro to help raise money for the A21 Campaign (“abolishing injustice in the...

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No Mystery About CCD in Bees?

December 14, 2010
by Beth

This post was updated in May 2011. Niwot, Colorado, beekeeper Tom Theobald has been concerned about the effects of pesticides on honeybee populations for some time, and that concern motivated him to...

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Meet the Maasai: Camel Herders

December 13, 2010
by Beth

Many people have heard of the Maasai of Africa and their cattle. But how many know that some Maasai in Tanzania are turning to camels after their cattle herds died in an extended drought? The drought...

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Restoration, Not Prohibition: Root Tea

November 18, 2010
by Beth

Over on my other blog, Beth at Home and Abroad, I wrote about the comeback of Root tea, a true American liqueur. Now when I planned this blog to be about restoration, I wasn’t thinking of...

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How Southern Utes Learned to Outfox the Feds

November 3, 2010
by Beth

The Southern Utes are one of the few tribes that manage their energy resources to benefit themselves. They even have an oil company, Red Willow Offshore, that won a lease in the Gulf of Mexico about...

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How to Make Electricity from Bacteria

October 25, 2010
by Beth

Bacteria making electricity? Sounds like science fiction, no? But it’s already happening at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, courtesy of Professors Derek Lovley and Kelly Nevin and...

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Restore California Meadows, Help Farmers

October 18, 2010
by Beth

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...

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Hopeful Signs: Thank You, EDF

October 15, 2010
by Beth

Out of the blue I received a newsletter from Environmental Defense Fund, appropriately titled Solutions. I loved the articles about helping sharks, revising the law governing chemicals (Toxic...

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Restoring History: Black Towns

October 12, 2010
by Beth

Be kind and read my post about Nicodemus, the oldest continually inhabited African American town in the United States, and the only one that is a national historic site. How Is This Restoration? It...

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“Power Is Simply Our Capacity to Act”

October 7, 2010
by Beth

Today I read an inspiring article in the summer issue of Yes! magazine: “Why Power Is Not a Dirty Word” by Frances Moore Lappé. She points out that many of us fear power because we think...

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How an Asian Diplomatic Spat Helps Recycling

October 4, 2010
by Beth

Depending on whom you believe, China is either reducing its exports of rare earths so it can use its supplies in its own products, or it has cut off the supply of rare earths to Japan to improve its...

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On 9/11 Anniversary, a Need for Sunshine

September 11, 2010
by Beth

If we are truly to restore the United States of America, we have to begin by illuminating what our government has done to fight terrorism, especially since September 11, 2011. 1. “A federal...

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Restoring People and Buildings

September 2, 2010
by Beth

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...

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Are Small Wind Turbines the Answer?

August 19, 2010
by Beth

While reading back issues of Sustainable Industries, I came across an article titled “Land of the Free? Permitting Woes Create Longer Timelines and Bigger Headaches for Renewable Energy...

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Do Ecosystems Need Disturbance?

August 12, 2010
by Beth

The spring 2010 issue of Cultural Survival has a thought-provoking article titled “Conservation Refugees.” It’s written by Mark Dowie, who wrote a book by the same title...

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Will More Flowers Help Bees?

August 9, 2010
by Beth

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) has been noted in beehives worldwide since 2006. In this disorder, the bees don’t simply die and fall out of the hives onto the ground. The entire colony...

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Restoration: How I See It

June 21, 2010
by Beth

Since January, I’ve been writing about land and water restoration projects on this blog, but I realized in June I was selling myself and my idea of restoration short. Because what I really want...

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My Crazy Idea to Help Seabirds

June 13, 2010
by Beth

I took a walk around Stearns Lake in Boulder County this afternoon, and I saw 1 white pelican out in the middle of the otherwise empty lake. It seemed like that small lake would have room for lots of...

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Will a Berm Stop the Oil?

June 8, 2010
by Beth

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...

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