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More details for each event at http://hubevents.blogspot.com which is also a free listserv Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends Thursday, April 4 9 - 10am EDT Online RSVP at...
by gmoke
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 08:49 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM PDT
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On March the 21st, the Kansas City community gardens had their first day for bedding plants on sale. I spent five dollars for a variety of lettuce, chard, and other early season plants. I had ...
by nailkeg
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 06:05 AM PDT
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Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/dickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests hat tip G. S. Murphy from Boston Food System...
by gmoke
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PDT
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Good morning on this first Saturday of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere!
After beginning this month with a surprise snow dump, we are now officially entering spring having just enjoyed a ...
by ninkasi23
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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“Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN With the...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 04:56 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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For the past few years I’ve been working on a garden in my friend’s large yard in San Antonio, Texas. Here are links to two previous diaries about this garden. Local ecosystem restoration and food forestry Small community action The latest addition I...
by Gardening Toad
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 11:56 AM PST
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I live in Eastern Washington, and unlike the image many people have of the Pacific Northwest, we are lucky to get 20 inches of precipitation a year. In the past five years there has been a big influx of new residents to this area. The real estate...
by hoosierspud
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 03:12 PM PST
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Okay, recently, Daily Kos user mettle fatigue reached out to me.
The message was that I was the only admin for this group.
And there were no editors.
The suggestion was that I should promote the ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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Climate-thinking: How farms are integrating climate change into their plans Thursday, February 1 13:00 - 14:30 GMT-5 Online RSVP at...
by gmoke
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 10:41 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
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Liquid3, an urban photo-bioreactor that uses microalgae to remove CO2, produce O2, and biomass https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/7109 hat tip MonkCanatella@MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works Farm to wetland...
by gmoke
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:42 PM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
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Announcing the 37th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference: "Growing Connections & Collaborations” January 13, 2024 8 AM - 6 PM Worcester State University, In-person Only, https://www.nofamass.org/home/nofa-events/winter-conference/ ————— Increasing...
by gmoke
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 07:11 PM PST
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This is the time of the year when backyard gardeners start seedlings or scan seed catalogs as they eagerly plan for spring. I’m actually writing this with potting soil under my fingernails from prepping a tray of buttercrunch lettuce and two new tomato...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 10:51 AM PST
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Morning Y’all, and welcome to another DownHeah edition of S aturday M orning G arden B logging.� As we put 2023 in the rearview mirror,� SMGB �is heading into its�20th year here at DailyKos.� So ...
by DownHeah Mississippi
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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Goods Morning Gardeners and all of you who come by to checkout the photos. We are here every Saturday morning at 9am EST. If you garden indoors or outdoors, we’d love to see photos and hear about ...
by GCNY
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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Good morning Saturday Morning Garden Blog-Friends! This cheerful tradition appears every Saturday morning at 9am Eastern, and lasts into the week as conversations percolate. Pull up a chair, snag a piece of pumpkin pie, let’s chat! Though it’s hard to...
by AnnieJo
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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I have been working over several years to create a raised bed garden accessible from my kitchen door. The herbs went in first, just in little short enclosures, mostly just tilled compost into the ...
by strawbale
184 comments
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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