Cultivating Seeds for Home and Garden
How to Plant a Home Garden and 'Free the Seed'
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By saving and swapping seeds, you can preserve agricultural heritage.Some good news: Portland Oregon's Foster Floodplain Natural Area increased the flood storage capacity six-fold — enough to fill nearly 70 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Cities find green ways to reduce storm floods
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For more than a century, New Orleans has depended on canals and pumps to get rid of stormwater in a city where about half the land is below sea level. Now the bustling...Save our e-waste and compost programs.Tomorrow, Thursday is the day to make your words heard: Submit testimony for the Executive Budget Hearing by email to: financetestimony@council.nyc.gov.Our community recycling programs have been directly impacted by the budget cuts and unfortunately we do not know when we will be able to continue to offer these recycling opportunities again. Now more than ever, we need you to show your support for climate friendly compost and e-waste recycling! Our compost and e-waste programs give NYers an opportunity to live out their values and commitments to sustainability through collective action. Please take the following actions TODAY: ✔️Contact your City Council Member by phone, email, and social media. ✔️Submit testimony for the Executive Budget Hearing on May 21 ✔️Send an email to financetestimony@council.nyc.gov ✔️Speak at the City Council’s Committee on Finance's virtual public hearing ✔️Sign the Petition supporting community composting. ✔️Sign the Petition supporting mandatory curbside composting. ✔️Share this with your family, friends, and community groups! Links more more information in link in our bio
