American Robin gathering nest material
If you use twitter at all, you may be familiar with the Follow Friday concept, where people recommend people for you to follow. While this is well-intentioned, some people send out long lists of people that simply make my eyes glaze over.
I’ve been doing Best of the Web here for some time and I was thinking that this is similar to the Follow Friday concept (except I do it on Saturday), but I like to have a little more information than just a long list of names.
So to all my twitter friends, consider my Best of the Web posts to be my contribution to Follow Friday.
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First up, my good buddy Wendy Gabriel has a great article in her Green Tips series, Greening Your Lawn. You’ll want to read this, especially if you have children. It’s full of great information on making your lawn more earth-friendly. Follow @MyGreenSide
I was excited to be contacted this week by Ben Murray at takepart.org to be interviewed for his article Ten Tips to Make Your Yard Wildlife Friendly. I was even more excited to learn that his other expert source for this article is the ever helpful Helen Yoest at Gardening With Confidence (@HelenYoest). Go check it out and be sure to leave your comments there. I’d love to hear what you think.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening many wildlife species in the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. It’s possible this may be worse than the Exxon Valdez spill. How Does the Louisiana Oil Spill Impact Wildlife and Habitat? This clean up is going to be a massive effort. Please support the wildlife agencies involved.
Ever thought about putting a bat house in your garden? Good for you! Karyl at Native Plant Wildlife Gardening walks us through the whole process. Follow@habitatgarden
You may remember that I reviewed Besty Franz’s book Take Care of Your Share of the Planet. Betsy has submitted a proposal to America’s Great Outdoors, a national dialog proposed by President Obama to learn how people are protecting and conserving outdoor spaces. See Teach Everyone to Take Care of Their Share of the Planet.
And in case you missed anything, here’s what happened here this week:
The Two Most Important Actions to Help Wildlife in Your Garden
Why Your Wildlife Garden Matters
Bishop Weed: Most Hated Plants
Native Plant Bloom Day: Flame Azalea
Is Sustainability Only About Human Benefit?
So that’s the news from Lake Wobegon. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Did I miss anything?
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Hi Carole. As always, nice list! Great article on TakePart.com, I got a phone message from Ben also, but not in time I guess! You and Helen did a wonderful job of writing that article with many useful points. If more people stopped using chemicals in their yards our wildlife would be much happier.
As far as a bat house, we don’t have a formal one. But we do have the same bat all summer who hangs under the front steps of the porch during day, and under the front door at night, eating all of the bugs and leaving us nice little droppings every morning.
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Hi Carole. Thanks for the mention of my idea for America’s Great Outdoor’s Initiative. I was totally stunned today to check out the America’s Great Outdoors website today and see that several people have DEMOTED my idea, or voted against it. They don’t have to leave a reason to do that so I’m not sure why they don’t like the idea of getting people up close and personal with backyard wildlife, but it was a little discouraging.
Just verifies, to me, how important websites like yours are. Keep up the great work for such a wonderful cause!
Carole, thank you so much for the link! I am honored to be included in such illustrious company. I love this series of post that you do!
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I love the robin portrait! I have a bat house that is waiting to get hung! But the Bats have returned to my roof already. I wonder if they will go to the house when I can get someone to hang it?
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Thanks in particular for that lawn link! I am currently writing an (anti) lawn article for my local newspaper.
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