Learn about upcoming programs and find out what’s happening within the organization:
- Ecological Plant Conference – December 3
- Advanced Ecological Design Workshop with Larry Weaner
- Get Eco-Answers to Your Questions
Resources
ELA counts many ecological professionals among its members and supporters. We sometimes highlight their work and share their expertise through product and book reviews, or by asking them to answer specific questions posed to the ELA community.
Gleanings from Headline News – October 2021
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:
- Take Notes Now for a Healthier Garden Next Year
- What Does Organic Mean?
- Plant Hope for the Future
- Growing Wildflowers Isn’t Difficult. And It’s Urgent.
- Landscapes for a Living World
- Can The Wealthy and Well-Connected Play an Outsized Role in Climate Action?
- How Adding Rock Dust to Soil Could Help Get Carbon into the Ground
- Biden Restores the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments
- Google Bans Ads With False Claims About Climate Change
- Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Found in Massachusetts
- Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States!
- Ozone Pollution: An Insidious and Growing Threat to Biodiversity
- Philadelphia Chefs Combat Hunger Through Gardening
- We Need to Stop Treating Soil Like Dirt
Book Review: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide
Reviewed by Charlie Wyman
Grasses have always scared me. Too many species, the flowers too small, the terminology strange and unfamiliar. As an amateur naturalist and very part-time at that, as the demands of work and family limited my wanderings, I had come to terms with the fact that I’d die without knowing my grasses. No longer. Lauren Brown and Ted Elliman’s little book, Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide, has changed everything.
Book Review: The Nature of Oaks
Reviewed by Maureen Sundberg
In The Nature of Oaks, Doug Tallamy hopes to encourage appreciation of the diversity in the web of life by focusing on a single tree that began as an acorn he planted in a pot and transplanted into his yard. Now 18 years old, still very young for an oak tree, Tallamy observes the tree and the many forms of life it supports then shares a month-by-month record of a few visitors.
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Removing English Ivy
Our group wanted to grow a woodland garden under some shade trees on our property where there currently is heavy growth of English Ivy. What is the best approach to remove the ivy? Read the Eco-Pros’ answers.
ELA News – September 2021
Learn about upcoming programs and find out what’s happening within the organization:
- Get Ready Fall Conferences
- Bookstore Booksale!
Gleanings from Headline News – September 2021
Gleanings September 2021
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:
- Generations Working Together to Solve Climate Crisis
- Insect Apocalypse
- The World’s Climate is in Our Hands/El Clima Mundial Está en Nuestras Manos
- Rich Desert River Struggles to Keep Flowing
- Las Vegas Gets Aggressive Grass Removal Policy
- Is Your Garden Ecologically Sound?
- Do U.S. Food Systems Leave Behind People of Color?
- Update on Mysterious Bird Deaths
- Electric Lawn Care Sweeping the Nation
- Tips for Hiring an Arborist
- Observation is the New Rule for Gardens
Farming While Black
By Leah Penniman
I never imagined that I would become a farmer. In my teenage years, as my race consciousness evolved, I got the message loud and clear that Black activists were concerned with gun violence, housing discrimination, and education reform, while white folks were concerned with organic farming and environmental conservation.
An Interview With Botanist Walter Kittredge
Interviewed By John Kittredge
What new skills or activities did you try during COVID lockdown? Walter Kittredge began an entirely new venture after retiring from his 45-year career at the world-renowned Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. He opened a native plant nursery called Oakhaven Sanctuary.
Gleanings from Headline News – August 2021
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:
- Can We Save Ourselves?
- The Plant That Cannot Die
- Snakes on a Plane!
- Should Geoengineering Science be Used to Combat Climate Change?
- Pesticide Sprays Harm Grassland Birds
- The Guardian Changes Use of ‘Climate Change’ to ‘Climate Emergency’
- Who Are We to Decide an Owl’s Fate?
- More and More and More Plastics in Our Oceans
- What NYC’s Little Island Says About Parks and Inequality
- Saving the Western Monarch
- Rhode Island Confronts Access to Public Coast
- Tracking Species Recovery
- Facebook Snafu Spells Trouble for Gardening Group
- Invasive Moth, Caterpillar Could Devour Boxwoods
- Get Reacquainted with the Browntail Moth
ELA News – August 2021
Learn about upcoming programs and find out what’s happening within the organization:
- Letter from ELA’s President
- Bookstore Booksale!
ELA News – July 2021
Learn about upcoming programs and find out what’s happening within the organization:
- Volunteer with ELA
- Eco-Answers with an Eco-Pro
- Share Your Expertise
