Planting a garden? What's your rush?
"Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons" By Felder Rushing (Chelsea Green)
Cruise ships banned from releasing sewage along Calif. coast
Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be barred from releasing sewage within three miles of the California coast under a rule signed Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Try houseplants as gifts for Valentine's Day and beyond
Why give fresh flowers for Valentine's Day, only to know they will soon die. Instead, give an easy-care houseplant that keeps on living and giving.
Edible landscaping takes food plants beyond bounds of vegetable patch
Food plants have jumped the fence from the kitchen garden.
New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick
When Congress approved the Beach Act in 2000, I was hopeful. The law required the Environmental Protection Agency to develop federal standards for water quality that would protect beach users from pathogen-caused illnesses, and it called for modernizing an outdated approach to measuring beach water quality. I believed it had the potential to make beaches far safer for the nation's swimmers and surfers.
Eric Sharp: dollars and sense over Asian carp
A coalition of environmental and civic groups wants the Great Lakes states and the federal government to spend from $3.5 billion to $9 billion to close off the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan.
Experts disagree on trap, neuter, release program for feral cats
In an area of Akron, Ohio, that residents don't want disclosed live three colonies of wild, or feral, cats.
On the afternoon of Nov. 2, the case of Duke the Cat, described by his alleged victim "as the smartest cat that I've ever seen," ended up in Seattle Municipal Court.
Should the world bribe Ecuador to protect that country's rain forests?
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, Feb. 6:
