by Kelsey Everett | Jul 9, 2019 | Homepage
Delaware Governor John Carney recently announced the largest ever round of farms permanently protected through the state’s Agricultural Lands Preservation Program. The 2019 grant round will purchase development rights on 111 farms totaling 9,382 acres. The...
by Kelsey Everett | Jul 2, 2019 | Homepage
Last Friday, Joe McCauley installed a ceremonial US Fish and Wildlife Service boundary marker on a 252 acre property at Fones Cliffs. It was the culmination of more than a decade of Joe’s persistence. Protecting this vital piece of Fones Cliffs–a...
by Kelsey Everett | Jun 25, 2019 | Homepage
Food forests are getting increased attention in cities around the nation as one strategy for addressing food deserts — neighborhoods lacking access to grocery stores and healthy food. What is a food forest? Technically, an integrated community of trees and...
by Kelsey Everett | Jun 11, 2019 | Homepage
In part two of our “signs of hope” Lightning Updates, we share more news from this spring. Over the past few months, an estimated two to three billion (yes, billion) birds migrated into and through the United States following long-traveled routes. The...
by Kelsey Everett | Jun 4, 2019 | Homepage
We have shared some global news in recent weeks that, when taken together, can become a bit disheartening — the climate crisis, warnings of the threat of mass extinctions, the calls for immediate action.Conservationists — and all people — must keep...
by Kelsey Everett | May 28, 2019 | Homepage
Journalists are reevaluating the language they use and the coverage they provide for reporting on the Earth’s heating climate. In an April article published in both the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope write “the...
