Palmerton, PA Imagine my surprise when, on the last full day of my vacation in the mountains of the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, I discovered that the town in which I had been staying, Palmerton, PA, was the site of one of the largest EPA Superfund clean-up sites east of the Mississippi River. This [...]
Doug Tallamy, meet Richard Louv: How Gardeners can Save the World
You may have noticed that I am a big fan of Doug Tallamy‘s Bringing Nature Home, but now another of my favorite authors thinks so too. If you haven’t yet read this amazing book, drop everything and do so now. Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods brought attention to the plight of “nature deficit [...]
One Third of U.S. Birds in Danger: How your Ecosystem Garden can Make a Difference
Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar released the State of the Birds report in March of 2009. This landmark study revealed that nearly one third of all U.S. birds are endangered, threatened or in significant decline due to habitat loss, invasive species, and other threats. Salazar said: “Just as they were when Rachel Carson published [...]
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