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Share Your Plant and Animal Sightings

Sheryl — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:05:26 +0000

Your wildlife photos and observations are the makings of real science — even those of common species such as the house sparrow. Don’t keep them to yourself and your Facebook or Flickr friends. Join Project Noah and share them with the world or use them to help build the Encyclopedia of Life. It’s fun, but [...]

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If You Need Inspiration…

Sheryl — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:57:20 +0000

Watch this beautiful video on protecting mother earth. It combines extraordinary nature imagery with a stirring message. If you find yourself inspired, as I suspect you will, please share it. Created by bittusahgal and Sanctuary Asia If You Need Inspiration… is a post from: This Green Blog

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Raising Environmentally Aware Kids

Sheryl — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:10:07 +0000

My father, Jack Eisenberg, circa 1971, in a land reservation near our home How do you raise environmentally aware kids? In seeking the answer, I look back to my own upbringing in the 1960s shortly before the first Earth Day. Like our neighbors, my family had recently begun using paper napkins instead of cloth and [...]

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Is Environmentalism a Religion?

Sheryl — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:30:22 +0000

If you come across something with this question in the title, it’s probably put out by anti-environmentalists and the answer is yes. Either yes, environmentalism is a false religion threatening the “true” religion, whatever that may be, or yes, it is “just” a religion, unfounded in science or fact. The last assertion — that environmentalism [...]

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Saving Jamaica Bay

Sheryl — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:55:15 +0000

I often think we undervalue the nature spots that are not wildernesses — the ones in and near cities and towns. Not only do these underappreciated places provide precious habitat for wildlife within the built environment, they also give humans respite from the hustle-bustle of modern life. Jamaica Bay in New York City is one [...]

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Wild Animals in Our Midst

Sheryl — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:54:00 +0000

What should communities do when deer habitat disappears and the animals spill out into yards, parks and streets? In the area where I grew up (Essex County, New Jersey), the community recently responded with deer hunts. The alternative — giving the deer contraception — was rejected due to cost. I was horrified. Not so long [...]

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Favorite Nature Spots

Sheryl — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:25:00 +0000

About 14 months ago, I had the idea of sharing favorite nature spots among readers of This Green Life using Google Maps as the vehicle. This nature map has received some 300 odd contributions and is still going strong today. It includes recommendations of many amazing places I’d never even heard of. Finding them isn’t [...]

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