For many years, people have continued to use poisonous solutions to kill pests within their home and on their property. While these chemicals may kill the pests, they are also very harmful. When you think about it, you will see the danger of spraying or sprinkling toxins all over the place. The chemicals are dangerous [...]
The following is a guest post by Nan Fischer, a Certified EcoBroker specializing in green real estate in Taos, NM. Check out her website www.nanfischer.com, and follow her on Twitter for a daily green news feed, www.twitter.com/nan_fischer. Nan writes about green building, solar energy and the environment on her blog, www.desertverde.com. In 1997, I lived [...]
Not in your literal backyard (although I suppose some people do have backyards like this; I know that I did in New Mexico!) but in your town, village, or city…what is there that you may be missing? This past long weekend I spent almost 3 days completely offline and away from the internet, Twitter, Facebook, [...]
I had a conversation with someone at a barbeque yesterday afternoon about wind turbines. We were discussing the Cape Wind Project, which will be America’s first off-shore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. He was upset because by putting wind turbines off-shore, it was going to ruin the view, and once that one took [...]
Dear EarthTalk: There have been many contradictory reports (it was good; it was bad) about what came out of COP 15, the December 2009 international Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen. Can you set the record straight? Indeed hopes were high that international negotiators in Copenhagen last December at the 15th Annual Conference of Parties [...]
I was just sent an email from one of my favorite companies, Patagonia, about this Witness for Wildlife (W4W) program. It is a citizen naturalist community “dedicated to chronicling and protecting North America’s wildlife corridors”. A program of Freedom to Roam, a group assembled to protect wildlife corridors in North America, is set to debut [...]
Way back when I was a bright eyed hopeful biologist, I got a common greenhorn biologist job, The Construction Monitor. This entailed me standing behind a bulldozer the size of a house all dressed up in my orange safety vest and hard hat with a snake stick and a bucket. At first I was so [...]
