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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Environment’
Endangered Species Day
Posted in Environment, Wildlife, tagged Environment, Wildlife on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrate Trees
Posted in Environment, Trees, tagged Environment, Trees 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 [...]
Earth Day Celebrates 40 Years
Posted in Environment, tagged Environment on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Earth Hour 2010
Posted in Environment, tagged Earth, Environment, Global Warming on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earth 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 [...]
Bzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted in Environment, Wildlife, tagged Environment, insects, Wildlife 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.
Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica
Posted in Environment, tagged antarctica, Environment, Science on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Every Day is Earth Day
Posted in Environment, tagged EarthDay, Environment on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every 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, [...]
Project Budburst
Posted in Environment, tagged climate, Environment on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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