For the first time in StreamSweepers history, we applied for and were accepted to receive a National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team to help us finish our season on the Clinch River in Southwest VA. The team is comprised of ten young people, ages 18-24, from all over the country who are dedicated to making […]
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/02/ext-beesforage.html
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One Health
https://theconversation.com/biodiversity-loss-could-be-making-us-sick-heres-why-143627?utm_medium=ampemail&utm_source=email
Mid-Summer from our work at Montpelier with the great folks at Center for Urban Habitats. Rudbeckia is fading a bit but still very beautiful with native warm season grasses coming on. This is from the lower and wetter part of this field. Unlike the upper field we did not get a good burn here. While […]
http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/soil-carbon-restoration-can-biology-do-the-job-part-three/ This blog provides information and commentary that may not represent the view of ACP’s Directors and Advisors
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/15/1922266117\ This blog provides information and commentary that may not represent the views of ACP’s Directors and Advisors
From the Heirloom Grain Alliance… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/us-grain-industry.html?smid=em-share This blog provides information and commentary that may not represent the views of ACP’s Directors and Advisors
Old friend and colleague Dave Hirschman penned this ode to this tree of our Virginia floodplains a few days ago. Along with Sycamore, and others, it’s a great bookend to our recent post – In Praise of Elymus – where our focus was on the dominant native grasses of these same floodplains. Floodplain restoration in […]
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The Triple Bottom Line
There are any number of ways to make our community better, and any number of ways to address perceived problems. Within the international development community, a movement to link community, economy, and environment was dubbed the triple bottom line approach back in the 1980’s. Since then the business community, nonprofits (e.g. Grayson Landcare in Grayson County, VA), and governments have adopted […]
Climate change predictions have been cussed and discussed since the 1970s. The latest report paints a fairly grim picture as it looks like a temperature increase of 4.6° Fahrenheit is inevitable in our lifetime. Like recalcitrant children, we balk at dire predictions that we can’t see with our own eyes. Climate doesn’t work that way, and humans, especially Americans, are […]