Although my season has ended as a KC Parks employee (about which more soon), I’m still interested in volunteering with them. To which end, here is a flyer for their upcoming events through December.

Fall for Salmon 2015

For what it’s worth, the ones I currently plan to attend are Cecil Moses Park (10/17) for Duwamish Alive!, White Center Heights ( Read more... )

Tuesday, May 6th, GiveBIG for North Beach Park!

Go to the Friends of North Beach Park page on the Seattle Foundation website, on Tuesday, May 6th, and your tax-deductible donation to support the restoration of North Beach Park will be stretched by the Seattle Foundation.

All moneys raised will go toward the restoration of North Beach Park, whether ( Read more... )

Here are the links that were on the handout for the forest steward refresher training on March 29, 2014. At the end I’ve added links and information received from comments during the presentation.
Green Seattle Partnership Forest Steward Outreach Toolkit First place to go for public outreach resources. There is a PDF listing neighborhood events, ( Read more... )

I’m going to try to pull together grant information, mostly so I have it in one place myself. Please feel free to add information you think may be helpful; I’m sure this is really incomplete to start with. The specific focus is for people doing parks restoration in Seattle.

Supporting Organizations
These provide information on how to write a grant ( Read more... )

The Looming Collapse of Agriculture on the Great Plains

This article looks at some of the changes happening in the Great Plains, particularly over and around the Oglalla aquifer. Capital wants to turn the land into wind farms, so that’s what will happen. I think wind farms aren’t as scalable as once thought; a big enough concentration will slow ( Read more... )

Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples

This is more than just the headline may lead you to believe. The article does touch on industrialized agriculture, but it also talks about breeding apples in the 18th and 19th Centuries, why agrarian biodiversity is a good thing (and how it’s being lost) and much more. Including a handy guide to ( Read more... )

One of the attractions of urban restoration to me is the way it breaks down the false dichotomy separating nature and the city. It forces us to connect with nature where we are, immediately. Nature is not something we drive to visit, not something remote photographed for the BBC or PBS, it’s right here. Ungainly, degraded perhaps, but still ( Read more... )

How To Naturescape

A thorough-looking guide to the how and whys of naturescaping, as opposed to landscaping. For one thing, using locally native plants increases the texture and ecological services of a landscape. As they point out, using the industrial plants of large commercial nurseries results in landscape looking the same around the country.

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Can we please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers?

Putting trees on skyscrapers is the trendy architectural design element of the moment. Here is why, in detail, it’s a bad idea.

Mirrored from Nature Intrudes. Please comment over there.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/harvard-study-shows-wind-power-will.html

Behind large wind turbine installations is a “wind shadow” where air movement has been slowed down by the drag on the wind turbines. This shadow hasn’t previously been included in calculations of the amount of energy that wind power can contribute to the world.

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