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Achieving 30x30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time

Green space in the Chicago region (credit:  Chicago Wilderness Alliance ) Did you know that back in December, one of the most important planetary environmental agreements in history got approved in Montreal? This would be the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), approved by the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which clearly states the goal of protecting, conserving, and restoring 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. Not only was another opening created for the concept that non-human species have the right to exist and live their lives according to their kind in appropriate habitats, but indigenous peoples were included and given their due as primary keepers of land. If countries actually follow through on commitments (one of the biggest ifs) there might be a chance that biodiversity could start recovering, and we might have a chance of getting to half-earth by 2050. By providing enough habitat for 80% of species on earth, t

The Last Tomatoes

Samhain, Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saints/Souls Days

An Absence of Some Months

A Small Prairie Garden

On Summer Break, Back Soon

All Kinds of Nightshade

Guest Post at Beautiful Wildlife Garden

Problematic Pokeweed

Beware the Dreadful Bindweed

A Date with Some Turtles

Ecological Reality Is Not What You Hypothesize

How Gardening Is Not Writing

Matteo and His Fig Tree

Spring Dispatches from the Backyard

April is Poetry Month 2011: "Segovia's Every Tree in Its Shadow"

The Earth Day Reading Project: A Blog Meme

We Need More Native Plants in Our Parks

In Praise of Native Shrubs

It's Time for Your Lawn to Make Peace with the Earth!

"Attracting Native Pollinators"

One Year on the Blog

Sandhill Cranes and Spring Resolutions

An Historical Precedent for the Polyculture Lawn

The Wild Things Conference

(GMO) Alfalfa and Our Future

Guest Post at Beautiful Wildlife Garden

A Hedgerow Project

Pollinator Garden Resources on the Web

Two Classic Accounts of Living with Nature

Rambling around the Web

Let's Talk About Bees

Non-native Plants I Won't Deep Six

Hummingbird Facts and Nature Rants