Native Seeds Fight Food Shortage and Global Warming : TreeHugger

a solution to food production and global warming. The key ideas are:
1. Biodiversity increases the ability of an ecosystem to capture carbon, says Brown University.
2. There are 100’s of economically important native seeds according to Lee and Maggie Arbuckle.
3. Native perennial grasses can be used as […]

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Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate

Nutrient-rich topsoil is being eroded much faster than it can be replenished, experts say.
Tom Paulson / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
SEATTLE — The planet is getting skinned.

“The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.”

“Globally, it’s […]

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Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide - Annotated

Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens

Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting […]

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The week in wildlife | Environment | guardian.co.uk - Annotated

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BBC NEWS | UK | Kew to open botanical art gallery - Annotated

London’s Kew Gardens is to open the world’s first gallery dedicated to botanical art works - some of which have never been seen by the public.

Kew has a vast collection of more than 200,000 art works.
Some of the illustrations of extinct […]

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