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Enjoy Time Left on This Rock
What do you do with the relentless stream of bad environmental news? The local newspaper today featured an angry reader comment that said we’d better enjoy the little time we have left in response to...
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The Soul-Satisfying Nature of Land
These lines from a great article in The Atlantic about sustainable farming in Arizona (ht: leslie_a_ryan via Twitter) remind me of what I like best about landscape architecture. I can devote time,...
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Refugia on My Mind
Image by Thomas R Machnitzki, Wikimedia Commons Ever since I began giving serious consideration to what specific steps can be taken by landscape planners and designers in response to climate change, I...
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Bat Dilemma – Conflicting Land Use Interests
When I was a graduate student, one of my favorite landscape planning books was Design For Human Ecosystems by John T. Lyle, and it is still a favorite. It was originally published in 1985, with a...
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Shaken By A Living Wind
Images of the starling murmuration do indeed suggest the massive flocks of passenger pigeons that once darkened the skies on this continent. It is estimated that one out of every four birds in the...
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Some Ecologists Think Constant Pessimism Isn’t Working
Last summer, a post in this blog posed the question “how do you handle the constant stream of discouraging environmental information?” Shortly afterwards, I saw an article in Grist titled, “Do...
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Is Gardening Harmful to the Environment?
Researchers from the Royal Horticultural Society, the University of Reading, and the University of Sheffield published a paper this month (Cameron et al., 2012) in the journal, Urban Forestry and Urban...
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Pretend I’m an otter, and I’ll pretend you’re a native
Defining what is a “native” species and what is not is more controversial than many people think. An unusual New York Times op-doc called “Hi! I’m a Nutria” examines the question. A few choice lines:...
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Lead and Violent Crime
Last winter, Kevin Drum reported in Mother Jones on the lead – violent crime connection, and I missed it! Just in case you missed it too, I am posting the link here. Informed urban gardeners know of...
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