GREENHOUSE GOLD
Popey would be proud of us. We have had a bumper crop of spinach this spring in our second season of growing food in our greenhouse.
OUR CARBON LEGACY AND OUR KIDS
Paul Murtaughis a professor of statistics at Oregon State University, and he has brought his number skills to bear on environmental issues with papers like, “The Statistical Evaluation of Ecological Indicators,” and “Performance of Several Variable-Selection Methods Applied to Real Ecological Data.” When he and M.G. Schlax published “Reproduction and […]
USA NATIONAL PHENOLOGICAL NETWORK NEEDS YOU
Family health issues have compromised my ability to put a regular blog post together. I was going to write about an amazing young organization USA National Phenological Network I have learned about while researching for a book. So I’ll just urge you to check out their website. Phenology is noting […]
TRY SCIENCE-BASED LIFE
We’ve been dealing with a sudden and serious medical issue in the family this past few days, and I have not had time to prepare a post. So I am going to refer you to a very good blog I recently learned about through the quirky connections one can make […]
UW-EXTENSION SUSTAINABILITY TEAM: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
Those of us who live in Wisconsin have been observing and/or participating in a major civics exercise the past few weeks. It’s been an astonishing demonstration of what people are willing to do when they perceive their government is overreaching its authority. My throat is raw, my arches ache and […]
THE ROLLER/CRIMPER AND MY SUBTERRANEAN LIVESTOCK
8:30 a.m. Feb 25 and I was full up on organic oatmeal, organic raisins and organic milk, leaning forward in my seat at the first of two day’s worth of workshops at the Midwest Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse. I was learning about “Soil Building through Cover Cropping and […]
TRASH ELECTRONIC GIZMOS GREENLY
According to a report, “Tackling High Tech Trash,” by Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization, Americans now own 3 billion electronic products with a turnover rate of about 400 million units annually. We now have one computer for every six people on the planet. This […]
DWELLING PLACES: A FRESH, GREEN ARCHITECTURE BLOG
Our architect, Della Hansmann, has recently started to collect her thoughts and experience into a comprehensive blog Dwelling Places: Let’s Design the World as if People Mattered which focuses on residential, small and green design. If you are interested in any of these topics, you’ll find a lot to like […]
WHERE THE (sick) WILD THINGS ARE: Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER)
How are you feeling today? Good? Glad to hear it! How is the wildlife in your area feeling? The U.S.Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center needs to know, and they have created two new programs to find out. “Avian influenza, SARS, West Nile virus, and rabies are just a few […]
GOODBY, GRANDFATHER OAK – YOU WERE A GOOD NEIGHBOR
My street is only two short blocks with 8 houses. There are many more trees than houses on these blocks. Mighty oaks, a big black walnut and a massive maple. All but one of the houses are two stories tall with attics, and they are dwarfed by the trees. The […]
Digging in the Driftless 