Home: Honeybee, phone home! A study conducted this spring in India found a link between the disappearance of honeybees and cell phone use. If only it were that simple...Colony Collapse Disorder was found in the United States and various other countries in 2006. (Friday, August 6, 2010, 12:50 PM)
Fatal 'Reaction' My soil-scientist pal Stephen Andrews says, "If you're growing a lawn in California, God help you!" In my anti-grass quest, I found it's the male spousal unit who's having a hard time letting go of his huge, useless, drug-addicted turf… Maybe it's time he watched the new documentary A Chemical Reaction by filmmaker Brett Plymale and lawn-care expert Paul Tukey. (Monday, June 14, 2010, 2:46 PM)
Landscape design with legs A housing community where 30 residents share weekly meals, govern by consensus, resolve conflict through dialogue, dry laundry on clotheslines, compost food scraps and cultivate an organic community garden? What a bunch of socialists! (Thursday, October 1, 2009, 4:06 PM)