Make an end of the year tax-deductible donation to LandChoices now to help save clean water, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland. Our online donations are secure, quick and easy. Click the “Donate Now” button below. Prefer to Give By Mail? Please mail your check, made out to “LandChoices”, to: LandChoices PO 181 Milford, MI 48381 [...]
LandChoices is working to come up with an alternate name for “conservation subdivisions” and you can help. Why a New Name? While we will continue to use the term “conservation subdivisions”, it will be helpful to have an alternate name more conducive for use in informal conversation and a 30 second elevator pitch/speech. In one-on-one [...]
LandChoices interviews Jim and Sally, Michigan homeowners, about natural landscaping. Natural landscaping helps preserve our environment. Water conservation, wildlife conservation and land preservation are all supported by reducing your lawn footprint. Let parts of your property grow naturally through natural landscaping. You save money and time too! This interview is from “Walk with me through [...]
I read The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler years ago and really enjoyed it. This video about sustainable community development is right on. In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America [...]
LandChoices has good friends at the art store. Main Street Art in downtown Milford, Michigan is where art lovers shop. Supportive of LandChoices’ work, our brochures are on display in the art store. The owners volunteer during our annual Earth Day event. Main Street Art walks the talk, carrying environmentally friendly products like solvent free [...]
Andy Beckstoffer, the founder of Napa Valley’s Beckstoffer Vineyards, wanted to donate a piece of his land to conservation, but it didn’t make sense financially – his property would bring in much more if he sold it than left it to grow grapes forever, according to the article “Conservation law helps preserve properties” in the [...]
Girl Guides of Canada is planning to close 16 camps, according to the article, “16 Ont. Girl Guide camps slated for closure” on the CBC News website. The article states that most of the camps have been struggling financially for years. “Cutting off camps is one of the worst things that can drive away interest in Girl [...]
