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Biodiversity’s Extraordinary Power to Affect Climate Crisis

January 27, 2025 by Marion 3 Comments

Are you aware of biodiversity’s extraordinary power to affect climate crisis? Do you know that biodiversity is essential for mitigating climate crisis?

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity Tagged With: biodiversity, climate crisis, Doug Tallamy, Homegrown National Park, native plants, United Nations

Why Native Plants?

May 27, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

Why native plants?  That’s a very important question.  Given our deteriorating ecosystems and declining bird and insect populations from human activity, we need to step up and help Nature repair the damage. 

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Homegrown National Park, keystone native plants, National Wildlife Native Plants Finder, native plants, pollinator pathway, TTGM Biodiversity Group

Creative Gifts For Native Plant Gardeners

December 1, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Make dreams come true with a special holiday gift for the native plant gardener in your life.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: Audubon Society, Doug Tallamy, Heather Holm, Homegrown National Park, National WIldlife Federation, native plants, Xerces Society

Land Stewardship or Environmental Disaster–Which Would You Choose?

May 19, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Land stewardship is not just a feel good idea, it is essential to life on Earth.  Without the biodiversity necessary to support wildlife, ecosystems will collapse and we will not be able to survive. We really are totally dependent on nature for our very existence on this planet.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: bird decline, Callery pear tree, Doug Tallamy, environmental stewardship, Homegrown National Park, insect apocalypse, japanese honeysuckle, Japanese stiltgrass, kudzu, multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet vine

Spotlight on Dr. Doug Tallamy

February 1, 2022 by Marion 1 Comment

Doug Tallamy, PhD, is arguably the foremost proponent of native plants in our country today. 

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: biodiversity, climate change, Doug Tallamy, ecosystem, environment, Highline Park, Homegrown National Park

Deep Dive Into Biodiversity

January 17, 2022 by Marion Leave a Comment

Let’s take a deep dive into biodiversity to help you understand how important it is.  Biodiversity refers to the many kinds of organisms found in an area.  These organisms–animals, plants, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Protecting Biodiversity, Working Groups Tagged With: biodiversity, climate change, climate crisis, Doug Tallamy, Fantastic Fungi, Homegrown National Park, Keep Media Green, native plants, pollution, web of life

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