Category: Policy
The Future Is In Indoor Farming
Indoor farming is now a necessity. For the last 12,000 years, with the end of the last Ice Age, we have been farming mostly outdoors. The megafauna that often fed our hunter/gatherer ancestors disappeared with the melting ice, driven to extinction by climate change, and not from overhunting from hominids, as had been previously proposed.…
The Callery Pear Is Everywhere! And It Must Go!
The Callery Pear, a popular street tree for some reason, is invasive. It’s seeds are carried by birds into our woods. It is a brittle tree, short lived, fast growing. It’s roots destroy sidewalks. Yet people are taken in for their supposed aesthetic beauty — the spring flowers and fall leaves.
The Right To Native Plants
Increasingly, people are challenging local zoning laws and home owner’s association rules governing how one maintains one’s yard, asserting our right to native plants
We Champion LI’s Native Plants
The Long Island Conservation Alliance and Marshall Brown are champions for native plants and for local habitat restoration. We need to plant natives in our yards as habitat for local wildlife.
Save The American Beech!
The American Beech is in grave danger from Beech Leaf Disease. It’s a race for a cure.
It’s Time To Kill Your Lawn
Lawns are expensive, costly to the environment, to our health and well being.
Destroying a Freshwater Wetland to Dump Dredge Spoils?
Bureaucratic momentum led to the destruction of rare habitat. We as Long Islanders and as New Yorkers need to take a lesson: We must begin to stand for what pockets of nature remain. If they go, then what?
