Who’s Yard is it Anyway?

Crazy Eyes by Ardyii

When it comes to making changes in your own back yard, who’s yard is it anyway? For some of us there are so many rules and regulations, it’s enough to drive you crazy!

I might have mentioned that I’m busy doing a redesign of my back yard. I’m working with Rachel of [...]

5 Questions With Will Johnston from GrowAndMake.com

As we look at growing green communities we need to find ways of closing the loop – dealing with waste as an asset by recycling – and ways of carrying out sustainable manufacturing as well as using products which can save energy and water. I love Wendy Gabriel’s Four Questions series. When I decided to [...]

Make Like a Kansas Possum and Prepare for a Prairie Winter

a possum in a crabapple tree by normanack

Look at that cute possum visiting his local crabapple tree for a winter snack. I doubt he’s a Kansas prairie opossum, but he could be, bear with me.

Preparing for Winter

Let’s say you want a quick lesson in preparing for winter. What lessons can you learn from a [...]

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House

Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House is a book by Carol Venolia and Kelly Lerner. Carol Venolia is an award-winning architect and author. Kelly Lerner is an architect and innovator in the fields of sustainable development and straw-bale construction.

I recently checked this book out of my local library. Half-way through reading I’m really impressed by [...]

Green Earth News 07/28/09

What’s happening? Here’s my pick of the Green Earth News for this week. Good things are happening. Let’s focus on the positive.

#1 – New Mammal Species
The New York Times this week reported that this is the age of mammal discovery. Remarkably 400 new species of mammals have been discovered since 2005. And I thought that [...]