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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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Land is Political
PlaceMatters, a nonprofit that developed from the Orton Family Foundation, recently published Bridging the Divide Between Science and Planning: Lessons From Ecosystem-Based Planning Approaches to Local...
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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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Noah’s Ark Redux
So the tractor-trailer is parked out in the woodland (or other natural area), and you have to decide which species you will bring on board for a ride to their new habitat. A trip north or to a higher...
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Sky Rocket
Charts of the Day – From the report, International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011), released yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Global energy use is projected to increase by...
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No Wonder Green Infrastructure Looks Good
The economic downturn has hastened the move to stormwater green infrastructure (GI) approaches (e.g., permeable paving, vegetative swales, rain gardens, green roofs) as a way to combat combined sewer...
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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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Effect of Texas Drought on Trees
Jim Robbins, author of a forthcoming book called The Man Who Planted Trees, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times that alerts readers to the mounting threats to trees and the reasons why the planet...
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A Body Blow to U.S. Land Use Planning
Given that the United States once set global precedents for environmental protection and physical planning, it is hard to grasp just how far we have fallen. The U.S. Supreme Court, though, has now made...
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