Patagonia has a campaign called “Freedom to Roam“. The purpose of the campaign is to save wildlife by establishing migration wildways for animals between protection areas. According to Patagonia’s website, threats include human development, housing sprawl, energy and resource extraction, population growth, expanding urban areas, and highways and freeways. It’s a great program that helps [...]
Using conservation subdivisions, communities across Pennsylvania are preserving their special open spaces, greenways and natural resources at the same time they achieve their development objectives. How? Conservation through local zoning and subdivision ordinances; an approach called Growing Greener: Conservation by Design, otherwise known as “conservation subdivisions“. If you want to ensure that new development creates [...]
If you are interested in “going green” head to the Michigan Magazine Museum for its “Going Green” exhibit. The exhibit runs from Friday, Aug. 28 through Sunday, Aug. 30. The event will feature presentations, vendors, and entertainment focused on a sustainable lifestyle. There will also be vendors selling food, homemade produce, maple syrup, honey, and organic [...]
Mark and Rebecca Ewing have ensured protection of their land, the sixth-oldest family farm in Indiana, with a conservation easement with Sycamore Land Trust, according to the article on the Land Trust Alliance website. The 500-acre Mont Clair Farm has been actively farmed by the Ewing family for seven generations—since roughly 1802. “When our great, [...]
At LandChoices we created a website for planners and advocates, DownloadtheOrdinance.org, where there is a link to the following case study along with a FREE downloadable conservation subdivision ordinance. Rose Valley Borough in Delaware County faced the potential destruction of natural and historic landscape features when the Saul Estate, the borough’s last large estate, was [...]
In his article, “A Shot Against Nature Deficit Disorder“, in the San Francisco Chronicle, writer Dan Shapely, discusses Bill Thompson III’s bird watching guide, The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. Mr. Shapely says Thompson is trying to inspire children to go outside, pick up his book, and put down their iPods, Wii [...]
I’m reposting about The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute fast-paced look at our production and consumption, because I find it informative and entertaining. View the entire 20 minute presentation of The Story of Stuff.
Below is the nice e-mail I received from Caroline Baker, Communications Coordinator for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She was commenting on my previous blog post. “Hi, Since you previously wrote about the proposed “Wilderness Walmart,” I thought you might be interested in a recent update by Rob Nieweg, Director of the National Trust [...]
