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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...