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Results for keyword: plants

  • Coffeepots and climate

    Shane Bondi seeks to understand the connection between a lump of coal, a power plant and that first cup of coffee in the morning.

    by Shane Bondi, May 12, 2008

  • Two weeks in the West

    Development threatens inholdings in national parks and forests; a few wilderness bills move through Congress; oil and mining booms in the West; W.R. Grace sets up trust for its victims; Homeland Security dodges enviro laws for border barriers; coal power

    by Sarah Gilman, Apr 28, 2008

  • Native Intelligence

    Lili Singer is in love with California’s native plants and wants to share that love with other people.

    by Erika Schickel, Mar 31, 2008

  • What is Xeriscaping?

    The seven basic principles of Xeriscaping are explained

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 21, 2006

  • Magic Valley Uprising

    An unusual grassroots coalition of citizen activists stops a coal-fired merchant power plant from being built in Idaho’s Magic Valley

    by Ray Ring, May 01, 2006

  • The difficulties of cohabitation

    Despite its problems and failures – many of them arising from the conflict between the United States’ growing population and our declining wildlife habitat – the Endangered Species Act is a necessary law

    by Paul Larmer, Feb 20, 2006

  • Odes to an urban mountain range

    Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 31, 2005

  • Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports to America

    John Leland’s book, Aliens in the Backyard, discusses both the dangers and the benefits arising from the vast number of exotic species in North America – including human beings

    by Staff, Sep 05, 2005
 

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