Nature and Environment Articles
Explore how sustainability creates a connection between our communities and the natural world that sustains us.
Highways and Habitats: Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions Costs and Solutions
By Mia Rishel, Faunalytics
A million vertebrate animals are killed by cars each day, costing $8 billion dollars per year. Letās start making efforts to balance the travel needs of people and animals and use the billions of dollars spent to prevent the millions of lives lost.
Rethinking Land Use to Support Global Biodiversity
By Lindsay Cobb, Trees for the Future
Earthās food systems are the problem and the solution to the climate crisis. A shift from traditional monocrop agriculture to agroforestry will bring back biodiversity while supporting human health and economies.
Climate-Savvy Alternatives to Lawns
By Sue Reed and Ginny Stoibolt
Learn how communities and local environments benefit from replacing expensive-to-maintain lawns with natural meadows, rain gardens, and community gardens.
How to Stop Invasive Plants
By Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt
Learn about invasive plant species, how they harm our local ecosystems, and how you can take action in your community to prevent their spread.
Methods for Removing Lawn
By Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt
Start converting empty, useless lawns into spaces thatāll help restore native animal communities and gardens by using these methods for lawn removal.
A Broken Twig and Our Broken World
By Steven McFadden
Iām telling this story now because the UN has just released another kick-in-gut report about the wholesale extinction taking place with our life-support system here on Mother Earth. Stand up. You matter.
Appreciating Forgotten Places
By Fala Burnette, Wolf Branch Homestead
The remains of some cabins and barn from farms of the past still stand, forgotten on roadsides and in fields. We can still appreciate their beauty, and in turn learn to appreciate our own homes.
Photos from the Field: Goat Makes a Playful Face
By MOTHER EARTH NEWS
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