The International Day of Peace will be observed across the globe, on Monday, September 21st, with events planned in every UN Nation State. Individuals, schools, communities and nations worldwide are joining in, with over 10,000 events planned this year, sponsored by thousands of organizations, with the estimated participation of over 200 million people.
Human rights, environmental, [...]
Film Review by Lisa Rosen
The title alone conjures up a biblical vision of tranquil harmony. Nature at its most pure and innocent. The first images of “The Garden†may be more prosaic, but they nonetheless support that idea. A man, weathered by the years and by physical labor, wakes up before dawn and makes his [...]
Plant Conservation Day and World Biological Diversity Day stand together as reminders of the multifaceted interrelationship of all living things.
Plant Conservation Day, May 18th
Plant Conservation Day provides a wonderful incentive to celebrate and explore the momentous importance of plants, their fundamental place in our lives, and our role in their conservation.
Plants form the foundation of [...]
This week is International Compost Awareness Week — really!
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), established in 1995, promotes awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource. ICAW takes place this year from May 3-9. This year’s theme is “Compost!…Recycling The Way Nature Meant It To Be.” In nature, compost just happens. Leaves, plant debris, dead [...]
Guest Post by Adam Downing
Virginia Cooperative Extension Agent, Forestry & Natural Resources
With the approach of Arbor Day, we should all have plans to plant a tree. To encourage you in this direction, I would like to recap some of the wonderful services trees offer.
(Note: If you do not have a yard or space to plant [...]
April’s initiatives and events dovetail to provide inspiration and opportunity to get outdoors and Step Forward.
April is “National Garden Month” and “Children & Nature Awareness Month“
April 12 kicks off “National Environmental Education Week“
“National Volunteer Week” commences April 19
April 22 is Earth Day
April 24 marks Arbor Day and Global Youth Service Day.
The world’s smallest park, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is in Portland, Oregon.
It’s called Mill Ends Park and it is a lonely patch of earth that barely measures 2 feet across, sitting in a sea of asphalt and traffic in downtown Portland.
In 1946 City of Portland municipal workers forgot to install a street lamp [...]
Crops in Space? Absolutely… especially if people are to travel for months and years to other worlds and systems. It would be impossible, for instance, to send along enough food and water for a team of space explorers on a mission to Mars. The reality is food and water production over a full life cycle [...]
It seems that there is concern in Arizona about mosquitoes spreading the West Nile disease.
The main breeding grounds, in the normally dry and arid state, are backyard swimming pools that have been left unattended because the households were foreclosed on or abandoned.
According to some authorities they are the terrorists of the flora and fauna world. They strike at night at unusual places and attack their targets with force and passion. By the time they leave the crime scene the landscape is unrecognizable.
They are Guerrilla Gardeners, a collection of secret cells around the world that sneak around [...]
