Do you have plants on your fire escape? Do you work in a community garden? Or, do you have your own garden? Then your green-space can become a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Animal habitats are disappearing because of climate change, invasive species, and development. Each inch of land that is cleared for homes, strip malls, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Join the Club
Posted in Gardening, Just For Fun, tagged environment, garden, martha, plants on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
40 Days for the Earth
Posted in Gardening, Just For Fun, tagged environment on April 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you’ve turned on the TV, gone online for news, or read a paper today, you’re well aware that it’s the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. The first Earth Day that I can remember was spent in Brandywine Park, holding hands and singing songs about nature with my classmates from R.O.M.P Montessori. The sun shone, [...]
Hey, Wilmington: FREE TREES
Posted in Just For Fun, tagged delaware, environment, trees on March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you know anyone who owns any type of property in Wilmington, DE, they are eligible for FREE TREES. ‘Say YES to the Trees for Wilmington’ is a campaign by the Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) to plant 20,000 trees in Wilmington by 2020. You apply, choose your tree, and DCH comes to your house [...]
Company of the Year: MONSANTO?
Posted in Gardening, tagged environment, garden on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
PTI: We need to take a break from gardening to open January’s Forbes Magazine where Monsanto has been named the “Company of the Year.” I don’t mean to make this blog political or too opinionated, but I am very surprised. Forbes says that it bestowed this title on Monsanto because of its high revenues in [...]
I Break for Photo-Ops
Posted in Road Trip, tagged drive, environment on January 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This week featured a road trip to the Hudson River Valley. Research for my thesis required me to travel to a CSA in Connecticut and a dairy farm in New York. Many thanks to Uncle Bobby and Aunt Ivy for letting me borrow their car and Aunt Darlene for the genius idea of photographing the [...]
