Indoor Plants That Eliminate Carcinogenics
Plants are one of the most obvious good things that there can be, and certain plants are excellent at cleaning specific chemicals out of the air. We all know that…
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Instead of Pesticides, Use Plants
This is the year nobody should use pesticides, if you’re on the fence about using pesticides I’ll remind you that they do more harm than good. They negatively impact human…
This is Why Nature Helps Your Cognitive Health
It’s clear that being around nature is good for one’s health, but why? Researchers have been looking into the physiological reasons for the benefits of nature and multiple reasons have…
Gardening for Beginners
Stuck inside due to the coronavirus? Why not learn to garden so when the good weather comes you can socially isolate yourself while also feeding yourself? Rob Greenfield was nervous…
New Year Prediction – The New Veganism
Perhaps not this year, but I can see it coming as clear as the lighting in a laboratory clean room. It started with vegetarianism, a dietary preference to avoid eating…
Plant Blindness and You
Can you tell the difference between a big leaf maple and a Japanese maple tree? If not, then you may suffer from plant blindness. Hopefully you can tell them apart…
Desalination Plants can Turn Their Waste into Solutions
We all need water to live and we’re using our fresh water reserves faster than they can be replenished. South Africa knows this all too well, which is why there…
Flowers Reduce use of Pesticide Spraying in Farms
Farms in the UK and Switzerland are trying a classic approach to reducing their use of pesticides: flowers. Yes, the flowers provide nutrients for insects that eat crops, but they…
These Plants Clean Your Household Air According to NASA
A few years ago we looked at a TED talk on how to grow fresh air inside. The information was based largely on NASA’s research done in the 1980s called…
Build Butterflyways for Beautiful Pollinators
Every pollinator is beautiful and there is an easy way to see more of them while helping the world: butterflyways. The concept is simple: bees and butterflies are under a…
Efficient Beans to Beat Drought Conditions
Beans are delicious, so delicious that earlier this year the UN declared 2016 to be year of the pulse. Around the world beans are cultivated for their protein and their…
What’s That? Use Your Phone to Identify Plants
Pl@ntNet is an app that can identify plants using the camera on your mobile. Presently, it’s limited primarily to Western Europe (since it was in France),Indian Ocean, and parts of…
Plants Which Clean the Air
Ever wanted to have really fresh air in your place? This TED Talk by Kamal Meattle provides some insight into which plants you should have in your home and what…
Abandoned Community Pastures At Risk #cdnpoli #skpoli
The last remnants of a unique ecosystem on Earth are entering what is potentially their last years of natural existence. This will lead to the extinctions of some plants and…
Conservatives Abandon Community Pasture Protection
If the Conservatives removed protection on all fish in the ocean, do you think there’d be an outcry of concern? What if they allowed every old tree to be cut…
Girl in Saskatoon
Cash was truly great. I hadn’t heard this song until Tuesday, but it even has caragana bush mentioned in it. Not sure why someone would bed down in it though,…