by admin | May 13, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
The widespread closure of restaurants, manufacturing facilities, theaters, dentist offices, and universities will reverberate not only in jobs reports. The shutdown will also have immediate and potentially long-lasting consequences for America’s water utilities and...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, News, Planning and Development
From California to Maine, the movement known as community supported agriculture (CSA) is booming. Members buy a share of a farm’s often organic harvest that gets delivered weekly in a box. CSA programs almost everywhere report a surge in memberships and growing...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Children in Nature, Community Resilience News and Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Public Lands, Scenic Beauty
Research on the connection between human health and exposure to nature started to get a foothold in the early 1980s. The renowned biologist E. O. Wilson hypothesized that humans had an innate connection to nature. At the same time, Roger Ulrich, a professor of...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Public Lands, Scenic Beauty, Wildlife
Nearing the line of demarcation for achieving “octogenarian,” it has been a shock to the system to face the necessity of “quarantined.” Even as a youngster in a household of several children and on a city block populated by many more suffering...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, News
“Small things count,” read a headline in the tiny, insistent pamphlet published by the National War Garden Commission in 1919. The pitch made gardening a civic duty. The victory garden movement began during World War I and called on Americans to grow food in whatever...
by admin | May 6, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, News
The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University in College Station has developed a briefing paper that identifies provisions most applicable to agricultural producers in the three recent Congressional interventions to stimulate the economy and...
