Flora and Fauna


Google’s London HQ Boasts A Rooftop Garden for The Ages

Source: mnn.com Published: June 2, 2017 Plans for Google’s new London headquarters include a ridiculously lush rooftop garden, drawing comparisons to London’s failed Garden Bridge project. (Rendering: Google) By Matt Hickman Remember that enchanting,...

Ford and Jose Cuervo Partner to Make Bioplastic from Agave

Source: triplepundit.com Published: July 26, 2016 Image credit: Ford Gina-Marie Cheeseman Why would an American car company and a Mexican tequila company ever team up? In the case of Ford Motor Co. and Jose Cuervo: to make bioplastics from an agave byproduct. Ford...

How Crowded Barcelona Plans to Shoehorn In 108 Acres of New Parks

Source: mnn.com Published: June 1, 2017 Park Guell in Barcelona is one of the city’s top tourist attractions, and offers a bit of perspective on how tightly packed this ancient-and-yet-totally-modern city really is. (Photo: Luciano Mortula – LGM/Shutterstock) There...

Are Hedges Better at Fighting Urban Air Pollution Than Trees?

Source: mnn.com Published: May 24, 2017 The British countryside is famed for its hedgerows. According to scientists, cities need more dense lines of shrubs in order to effectively combat automobile-borne air pollution. (Photo: Jenny Brown/flickr) By Matt Hickman Make...

How to Naturescape

Source: plantnative.org Published: May 24, 2017 Apologies for formatting errors due to docx importing. Curious about native plants? Interested in a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape? Concerned about health and water quality? Or did you just stumble on to this page...

Reforestation Efforts That Really Work

Source: healthinharmony.org Published: April 25, 2016 NOTE: Article link redirects to the source homepage As Indonesia’s forests vanish from logging and fires, the future of our planet continues to hang in the balance. Reforestation can go a long way to solve this...

Tropical Trees Solution for Climate Change

Source: communitycarbontrees.org Published: May 17, 2017 Planting trees in any climate is beneficial because there are many benefits of planting trees. Yet, planting trees near the equator “cools” the planet more than trees planted in temperate latitudes. Scientists...

Seeing the Wood for the Trees

Source: conservationbytes.com Published: July 11, 2016 From the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South Asia, from misty cloud forests to ice-covered pines, forests are some of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth. However, as...