Communities across the United States are talking more and more about resilience. They’re spurred by recent natural disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, weather extremes like the harsh Northeast winter of 2014-15, and long-term drought in the West.
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Source: Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience « Six Foundations
Learn how to make a diverse landscape that provides room to play for children and pets while providing shelter and sustenance for wildlife.
Source: Create a Living Landscape
Nature no longer congregates where we expect to find it — so conservationists must radically rethink priorities…
Source: Invasive species will save us: The new way we must think about the environment now – Salon.com
This article in Salon Magazine is an excerpt from Fred Pearce’s new book called “The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation”. It’s a fascinating look at the way species of plants and animals are actually moving around and adapting to unusual environments (like cities!) and will give you a fresh look at the whole idea of “invasive species”…
COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret, is a groundbreaking feature length environmental documentary, following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. This shocking yet humorous documentary is as eye-opening as “Blackfish” and as inspiring as “An Inconvenient Truth”.
A WHILE AGO, I heard an American scientist address an audience in Oxford, England, about his work on the climate crisis. He was precise, unemotional, rigor
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