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Journey: Lessons from a Peripatetic Wolf

By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 28th, 2014
Remote camera image of wolf OR7, nicknamed Journey, in southwest Oregon, May 2014. Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Lessons from the LA Ecovillage

By Timothy Beatley / On February 6th, 2009
Two weeks ago I had the chance to visit the Los Angeles Ecovillage (LAEV), and spent time with its visionary creator Lois Arkin. The story of the LAEV is inspirational and instructive.  Located 3-miles west of downtown, the Ecovillage represents a compelling model of how to begin to transform dysfunctional and unsustainable urban (and suburban) environments into real places, places with soul and meaning and commitment to community and environment.
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Conservation and Restoration in Bloom

By [node:field_contributor] / On May 11th, 2008
Here in lovely northern California, where I work from a home office, the poppies are finally in bloom, scattering their cheerful yellow flowers generously across the main meadow. These days, the path to the mailbox is a festival of color, as poppies mingle with deep purple lupines, pale yellow buttercups, and new green grass just forming its seed. Permeating the air is the sweet fragrance of the white popcorn flowers—the essence of spring in this part of the Coast Range.

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