remove “pond muck” from your pond, because “muck provides nutrients to feed all the pond weeds and algae that contribute to the destruction of your beautiful pond…..
Author: William Schlesinger
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. . . . . . . plastics
Worldwide production of plastics approaches 300 million tons per year, and a recent estimate suggests that 4.8 to 12.7 million tons reaches the sea.
Gazing at your lawn on a summer afternoon
For nearly all of us, today’s obsession with the perfect, park-like lawn is a waste of time and money and bad for the environment.
Songbird: it’s what’s for dinner
Many cat owners believe their “little mittens” couldn’t possibly be a killer. But, the Kitty-Cams never blink.
Organic foods: Who couldn’t like them?
Many folks will pay considerably more for organic foods, believing that they are good for us.
Ocean Acidity
In the clamor about global climate change, the quiet side of rising CO2 in the atmosphere, is that we are making the oceans more acidic every year,
Too Bad Turkeys Don’t Migrate
Migratory birds are part of the heritage of America—not simply an annoyance, like houseflies, to the pursuit of corporate profits.
Methane: the other greenhouse gas
Methane is one of several “greenhouse” gases that we must manage if we are to reduce the probability of harmful disruptions to Earth’s climate.
To bee or not to be
We need to think of something better than an escalating war between insecticides, the evolution of resistant insects, collateral damage, human toxicity and corporate profits.
Recycling: What goes around comes around
Suspecting that recycling is a marginal business, I have worried that comingled approaches must be less profitable, since a lot of sorting must be done off-site.