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Endangered Species Day

Posted in Environment, Wildlife, tagged , on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today is Endangered Species Day.

President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Several years ago the United States Senate designated the third Friday in May as Endangered Species Day to bring awareness to the plight of various species of wildlife and their habitat due to human development.

“Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”  ~ Cree Indian Prophecy

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Celebrate Trees

Posted in Environment, Trees, tagged , on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska in 1872 when J. Sterling Morton, then President of the Agricultural Board, proposed the planting of trees to attract more people to the state. Today all 50 states plus other countries around the globe celebrate Arbor day.

We celebrate on the last Friday in April here in Illinois. Other states observe Arbor Day on different dates according to their best tree-planting times.
Many towns have community events and tree plantings. The Morton Arboretum has information on their webpage for the Suburban Chicago area.

I love trees. I wish my yard was large enough to have more of them. It’s not, so instead I continue to plant more shrubs and perennials. This year I am adding a Dogwood and Forsynthia.

 

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Earth Day Celebrates 40 Years

Posted in Environment, tagged on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Earth Day 2010

Do something nice for the planet.  It’s the only one we have so treat it with care.

After 40 years of earth days we should all be aware of our environment and what we can do to protect it no matter how insignificant one small act seems. So, plant a flower, recycle something, pick up a piece of litter or better yet decline that plastic bag at the store.

 

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Earth Hour 2010

Posted in Environment, tagged , , on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

earthEarth Hour will take place on Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time.

Turn off the lights, light the fireplace, grab the candles or go outside and look up at the night sky. I know it’s just for one hour, but it does bring a lot of people together for a global cause and hopefully will raise some awareness and concern for our planet.


Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

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Bzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted in Environment, Wildlife, tagged , , on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Bumble Bees were out in force yesterday. There haven’t been as many this year. Maybe the sunny afternoon brought them to my yard. This one is happily sipping on a marigold flower.

Bumble Bee on Marigold

Bumble Bee on Marigold

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Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica

Posted in Environment, tagged , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

antarctica - www.nationalgeographic.com

Grrlscientist has entered a competition to be the official blogger For Quark Expeditions on their month long visit to Antarctica.

Vote for her and help send her on a dream trip. It’s really easy, all you need to do is give them your name and email address and then vote.

Antarctica is much too cold for me, but I’d love to experience it through her writings from a distance. I, however, would be thrilled to win a trip someplace tropical.

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Every Day is Earth Day

Posted in Environment, tagged , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

earthEvery day is earth day for me.

Gardening definitely brings one more in touch with nature and the planet, but you don’t have to be a gardener to want to do a few simple things to help the earth.

Use that canvas grocery bag that always gets forgotten, pick up a wayward piece of litter, replace a light bulb with a CFL, plant something or recycle something you no longer use. Happy Earth Day.

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Project Budburst

Posted in Environment, tagged , on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Project BudBurst Logo

I signed up for Project Budburst and will be gathering environmental and climate change information in my own backyard.

Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers.

That’s the official description of Project Budburst. What it really involves is choosing a few plants that you can observe everyday. Then you report the phenophases, or events, such as first leaf, first flower, first fruit, etc. on your log at the Budburst site.

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