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To assist you on your journey to living green

Allergy

Best and Worst Flowers for People With Allergies

Best and Worst Flowers for People With Allergies Worst Plants for Allergies You can expect more plant pollen and seasonal allergies if you put any of these plants in your yard. Flowers/herbs Amaranth (pigweed), chamomile, chrysanthemums, daisies, goldenrod, ordinary sunflowers. Shrubs/vines Cypress, jasmine vine, juniper, wisteria. Trees Alder, ash (male), aspen (male), beech, birch, box elder (male), cedar (male), […]

CEO Corner

CEO Recruitment

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5 Myths about Income Inequality Debunked

5 Myths about Income Inequality Debunked It’s important to have a healthy skeptic’s attitude. Friday, October 26, 2018   Dustin Carnes Economics             The issue of economic inequality is all the rage these days. It encompasses numerous arguments about a wide range of topics. Let us review and rebut several […]

Google Says The Best Managers Have These 10 Qualities

It’s called Project Oxygen. Beginning in 2008, Google researchers wanted to understand what makes a manager great at Google. Here’s what they found. Project Oxygen Google sought to identify the common threads among Google’s highest performing managers. Based on internal research, Google then applied its findings to its manager development programs. Over time, Google found […]

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What Are You Building? BY JIM CLIFTON   Adapted from Born to Build (Gallup Press, May 2018). People will ask you throughout your life, “Where do you work?” and “What do you do?” They never ask you, “What are you building?” When conversations change to “What are you building?” you will change, and so will the world. Well-meaning […]

Facts are Stubborn Things

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” —John Adams (1770)

What’s the worst kind of praise you can give?

Good advice for both leaders  and parents! Lee https://ideas.ted.com/whats-the-worst-kind-of-praise-you-can-give/ What’s the worst kind of praise you can give? One hint: it often ends with the letters “est.” And it can lead to competition and disappointment, says psychologist and workplace researcher Shawn Achor. Shawn Achor iStock Some people treat praise like a limited commodity. They believe […]

The Splendor of Imperfection

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Life Among the Leaves: Urban Forestry and Nature in our Neighborhoods

Life Among the Leaves: Urban Forestry and Nature in our Neighborhoods   Don Bessler Kelaine Ravdin Ryan Gilpin Dr. Joe McBride Dr. Akif Eskalen Dr. John Kabashima Dr. Greg McPherson Howard Neukrug      

The Wisest Person I Ever Met in my Life Was a Third Grade Dropout

Climate Change

Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/11/climate/summer-nights-warming-faster-than-days-dangerous.html Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous. By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS and NADJA POPOVICH JULY 11, 2018 July kicked off with searingly hot temperatures for most Americans this year. New daily, monthly and all-time record highs were set across the country last week, with more than 100 million people sweating it out […]

Fed Up With Climate Change, Trees Are Moving North & West

Fed Up With Climate Change, Trees Are Moving North & West USA TODAY – Doyle Rice – May 18, 2017 It’s getting so hot that even the trees are heading north. Man-made climate change — including warmer temperatures and deviations in rainfall patterns — appears to be one of the reasons tree populations in the eastern U.S. are […]

Washington county files lawsuit against oil and gas industry over climate change

A Washington state county filed a lawsuit against the oil and gas industry Thursday for contributing to climate change. King County’s suit is targeting five fossil fuel companies — BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch and ConocoPhillips — “for knowingly contributing to climate disruptions and putting the residents of King County at greater risk of floods, landslides, ocean acidification, […]

Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater

      National   Analysis Precipitation whiplashand climate change threatenCalifornia’s freshwater Almost two-thirds of California’s freshwater originate in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But the source is in trouble. By Lauren Tierney and Monica Ulmanu May 9, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Tumblr […]

Change in Urban/Community Tree Cover by State

https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/news/release/resources/cities-communities-losing-tree-cover/ Forest Service Home About the Agency Contact the National Office Search Go Northern Research Station Home Research Programs Themes Units Lands Facilities Special Programs Publications & Data Tools & Applications Locations Scientists & Staff About NRS NRS News Contact Information Northern Research Station 11 Campus Blvd., Suite 200 Newtown Square, PA 19073 (610) 557-4017 […]

How Big Forests Solve Global Problems

Opinion Supported by   Op-Ed Contributors How Big Forests Solve Global Problems By Thomas E. Lovejoy and John Reid Mr. Reid has pioneered the use of economic insights to conserve forests and other ecosystems globally. Mr. Lovejoy has worked in the Amazon (the largest tropical forest) since 1965. April 19, 2018         […]

Health

Color-Changing Lights Could Reset the Body’s Scrambled Clock

Sara Barbee uses the “Alert” setting on her tunable light system while teaching her Seattle-area kindergarteners. Annabel Clark / Undark Reaching behind a low bookshelf slightly taller than a typical 5-year-old—and one topped with a Seattle Seahawks gnome and stuffed kangaroo—Sara Barbee presses a button labeled “Alert.” Intense, bluish light fills her classroom, and nearly […]

    Posted January 6, 2018 02:21 pm – Updated January 7, 2018 01:25 am Special to The Capital-Journal Local infrastructure can encourage healthy decisions Audrey Power, of Topeka, says she walks on the Shunga Trail every day for her health. (Thad Allton/The Capital-Journal) Audrey Power, of Topeka, says she walks on the Shunga Trail […]

Here’s How Cities Can Get the Most out of Their Parks

Here’s How Cities Can Get the Most out of Their Parks TERESA MATHEW  OCT 18, 2017 Neighborhood green spaces aren’t always living up to their full potential. A neighborhood park can be a powerful tool to help nearby residents lead healthier lives. According to one study, every dollar spent on creating and maintaining park trails saves […]

Cities Should Think About Trees As Public Health Infrastructure

          10.02.17 WORLD CHANGING IDEAS Cities Should Think About Trees As Public Health Infrastructure Planting trees is an incredibly cheap and simple way to improve the well-being of people in a city. A novel idea: Public health institutions should be financing urban greenery to support well-being and air quality. “It’s not enough to […]

Living in Nature

Why Personal Tech Is Depressing

Why Personal Tech Is Depressing It’s more than Instagram envy. And thanks to our ever-increasing digital dependence, it’s likely to get worse Dr. Stephen Ilardi Oct. 26, 2017 9:58 a.m. ET We live in an era of previously unimaginable luxury. Without leaving our sofas, we can conjure almost any book or film on our phone […]

Tree Care

Pruning

Types of pruning cuts: https://www.azplantlady.com/2010/02/three-neglected-peach-trees.html Trimming oak trees: http://www.wikihow.com/Trim-Oak-Trees Pruning trees in a desert: https://www.chandleraz.gov/Content/WC_PruningTreesDesert.pdf http://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/1/29/w4p4udrhn7mfyj7yuja0atvgjliqgy

Tree Stories

Rotary Club Tree Gift, way back in 1915

Judi Dench Loves Trees

 

Alike

This Breathtaking Short Film Shows Exactly How Society Kills Our Creativity

Coast Live Oak at Devendork Park

Devendorf Park is Carmel’s central gathering place, from plein air painting, Veterans and Memorial Day remembrances, to the annual tree lighting in the park. J. Frank Devendorf known as the Father of Carmel-By-the-Sea gave the land to the city; his grandson remains in Carmel-by-the-Sea – Jack Galante, a purveyor a bold red wines. The park […]

The Journey of a 9/11 Tree

BY Scott Elliott | Mar. 10, 2015 |  A tree that was wounded by the September 11 attacks has regained its health, with the help of a caretaker, and returned to its home.

Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why […]

Place Making

Where work pays: How does where you live matter for your earnings?

Where work pays: How does where you live matter for your earnings? Lauren Bauer, Audrey Breitwieser, Ryan Nunn, and Jay ShambaughTuesday, July 10, 2018 Facebook Click to share on Facebook Twitter Click to share on Twitter LinkedIn Click to share on LinkedIn Print Click to print More DOWNLOAD Full paper Technical appendix Editor’s Note: An […]

Where work pays: How does where you live matter for your earnings?

https://www.brookings.edu/research/where-work-pays-how-does-where-you-live-matter-for-your-earnings/     Editor’s Note: An interactive tool accompanies this economic analysis, allowing users to see the distribution of annual earnings across the United States for a given occupation and age group, adjusting for cost of living and taxes. Educational and occupational choices matter for your earnings, but where you work matters, too. Employment opportunities and wages in some occupations vary substantially […]

Transportation

Save the World with Electric Cars

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Air Quality

Federal surveys have found that indoor air can be two to five times more toxic than outdoor air.

‘Indoor generation’: A quarter of Americans spend all day inside, survey finds Majority don’t know how bad indoor air quality is compared to outside Search Search Keywor   In an age when nearly everything can be found (and delivered) online — including food, entertainment and relationships — it’s hardly surprising to discover an “indoor generation.” […]

Landscaping at Home

Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster

Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster Friday 10:00am Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s probably referring to our capacity for war, but lawns may display our talent for fruitless carnage even better. Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless […]

Sierra Forest Lands

Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada

Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada http://www.sierranevada.ca.gov/our-region/tree-mortality/tree-mortality THE PROBLEM California is experiencing tree die-off at an unprecedented scale, and the Sierra Nevada Region has been hit extremely hard. 129 million trees have died across the state due to drought and bark beetles since 2010, and 85 percent of those dead trees are in the Sierra. […]

Agricultural Education

Community Gardens/Food Forests

Food Forest Movement Finds Fertile Ground in the Midwest

Facebook Twitter Email Food Forest Movement Finds Fertile Ground in the Midwest BY RACHEL DOVEY | AUGUST 27, 2018 Facebook Twitter Email The Freeway Food Forest in San Francisco. (Credit: Zoey Kroll) As others are doing in Seattle and Philadelphia, the small city of Davenport is addressing local food insecurity with a regenerative, seven-layer garden, […]

Education

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list. By Dhawal ShahOctober 25, 2018 Dhawal Shah, Founder of Class Central If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past […]

Might School Performance Grow on Trees?

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Forests That Heal

Education

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list. By Dhawal ShahOctober 25, 2018 Dhawal Shah, Founder of Class Central If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past […]

Might School Performance Grow on Trees?

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