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Restoring Your Lawn To Prairie – Some Links For Illinoisians

Rick — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:20:26 +0000

Illinois Wildflowers is an excellent site about native plants in Illinois and is chock-full of information like this page about prairies.

I really wish the Natural Garden Inc., in St. Charles, IL, had a better website. As it stands, I’m looking at tables of their plant lists, trying to figure out what to plant this fall to restore my lawn to prairie. It’s a long, arduous process. On the plus side, Natural Garden is only about twenty-five miles away from me, and claim their native plant nursery stock is from seed collected within a 90 mile radius sometime in the seventies. We’re talking local genome here folks.

Prairie Nursery has always had an informative and well-organized website. I’ve ordered from them before when I was establishing my woodland garden a couple of years ago, and was happy with the result. The only drawbacks were that the plants reeked of smoke when they arrived and the Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus) was a bit more invasive and weedy than I would have liked.

Prairie Moon Nursery used to have a somewhat dis-functional site, but they recently re-vamped it and it’s now much better and more user friendly. So far, this is the only place I have found that sells native plants bare root (I haven’t been looking very hard…). This Spring I took advantage of their bare-root clearance sale and, though it was a bit late in the season for it, the unpromising looking twigs they sent me all took off quite impressively. This is the way to establish some really impressive stands of Prairie Blazing Star, Prairie Larkspur, and Sweet Joe Pye Weed. I will definitely be making a larger order this Fall and spend a good weekend in October planting. Spring 2010 should be spectacular.

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Post tags: backyard garden, Climate Change, Environment, greenscaping, native plants, tall grass prairie, woodland garden

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Preserve Nature and Make a Sustainable Future for Man on Earth

Rick — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:56:56 +0000

When many of us think about preserving nature we think of wildlife programs on the television, of cuddly lovable furry animals such as the chimpanzee, the koala bear, panda bears and many others. We also think of the big game of Africa, and the shimmering beauty and amazing diversity of the sea life of our coral reefs. In fact, the understandable popularity of these animals has been such that until recently nature conservation bodies were formed which concentrated almost wholly on such examples of mother nature’s most lovable and most amazing creatures, with international bodies like the highly respected World Wildlife Fund fighting to preserve the habitat of these wonderful creatures.

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Post tags: Climate Change, Environment, Renewable energy, World Wildlife Fund

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Global Warming – What Can We Do to help?

Rick — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:13:03 +0000

Global warming refers to the increase in average temperature near the earth’s surface and in its oceans. Climate change is another term used interchangeably with global warming. However, climate change may encompass other changes in climate besides increases in temperature.

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Post tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global warming, Greenhouse gas

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Global Warming Heats Up Both Earth and Arguments

Rick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:10:20 +0000

Global warming is one of the most popular topics of news programs and worldwide media. The basic assertion of global warming is that the surface of the earth is increasing in temperature. That assertion also implies that human industrial activities are responsible for this temperature increase.

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21st Century Environmental Revolution – Book Release

Rick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:54:25 +0000

October 3, 2008, Press Release from: Waves of the Future, Publisher

Author Investigates Large-Scale Strategies for Conservation, Global Warming, and the Environment

Mark C. Henderson just published a book entitled The 21st Century Environmental Revolution which looks at comprehensive and large-scale strategies for the environment. He argues that such approaches are our best hope of winning the battle for a green future.

According to this new book, simple economic policy changes could result in huge gains for the green agenda and even spark a worldwide environmental revolution. Working from a number of political and economic principles, he develops a comprehensive and large-scale strategy which could address most environmental problems at very little cost.

The book is written for both a general and expert audience. The introduction, table of contents, the author’s blog, and further details are available at the publisher’s website.

Title Information:

Henderson, Mark C. (2008). The 21st Century Environmental Revolution: A Comprehensive Strategy for Conservation, Global Warming, and the Environment / The Fourth Wave.
Waves of the Future. 188 pages.
Trade Paperback.
ISBN 978-0-9809989-0-0 (0980998905)

About Waves of the Future:
Waves of the Future is an online publisher that focuses on global issues and the environment.

Contacts:
Waves of the Future
Email: See the “About Us” page at the website below.
Website: http://wavesofthefuture.net

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Post tags: Climate Change, Environment, Environmentalism, global climate change, Global warming

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