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Doug Tallamy: The Nature of Oaks

If you can only plant one tree, make that tree an Oak.        Doug Tallamy, national advocate for restoring the LIFE in our places with the power of Native Plants, ce

Illinois Clean Energy Policy - Andy Heaslet on the making of a model

Renewable energy Return On Investment is booming, across the U.S. and worldwide. With uber-real concerns about this trajectory on environmental minds, Earthworms reviews

New Earth Farms Composting: Community Service Super-Charged

"What's going on in that bucket," wrote the great enviro-spiritual guy Wendell Berry in The Work of Local Culture, "is the most momentous thing I know, the greatest mirac

Earthworms On The Farm: Rosy Buck Grows in Circles

Sustainable farming is both lifestyle and full-time job for Holly Evans, Randy Buck and their three children. Holly and Earthworms host Jean Ponzi "tour" this young famil

Remembering Jay Schober - from the Earthworms Archives

Earthworms' late, dear, zany friend Jay Schober was one hemisphere - with he dearest friend Jim Findlay - of the St. Louis Brain Sandwich, in the early glory DAZE of KDHX

City Sewing Room: Stitching, Teaching, Sharing GREEN

Would you like to learn to: Sew from a pattern? Customize a thrift-store find? Replace a busted zipper? You can do all this and more in a lively, well-stocked compound on

Advocating for Night Sky Darkness

ALAN - Artificial Light At Night - is surging. Light pollution disrupts health for humans and wildlife, wastes energy and money, and blocks out awe-some Universe views. H

Hamilton Native Outpost: Growing Native Grazing Abundance

To champion grassland soil health in Missouri, where conventional grazing practice is practically enshrined in state law, Amy Hamilton's family enterprise has dug in as d

St. Louis County Library: Worlds of Ways of Learning

If you have a library card or not, St. Louis County Library welcomes you into their multi-verse of learning.        Earthworms' Jean Ponzi has been hosted as a speak

St. Louis Green Dining Alliance: Sustainable Credible Edibles

Hungry for new dining thrills? Need a place to meet and eat in an area of STL you don't know well? Align your fork, dollars and values by heading to a restaurant certifie

Nee Kee Nee: Urban Park Stream Revived!

In a south St. Louis city park created in Victorian times, Indigenous culture, native plant ecology and 21st century engineering are newly united in a southwesterly flow.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Cat Techtmann

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) offers indigenous wisdom to "conventional" society, where responses to issues like climate change and biodiversity loss need all ha

Nature OF and FOR Healthy Human Culture with Jo Pang

From his personal relationships with the organizations we know as Forests (where Collaboration AND Competition thrive), Jo Pang helps good health flourish in human orgs,

Nature, Design and Health with David Kamp

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Road Kill - yes, not kidding folks, sez Don Corrigan

St. Louis journalist Don Corrigan storms the American Popular Culture Association with his books exploring way more than journalistic topics - like ROAD KILL.          

Lawns Into Meadows: Owen Wormser, Landscape Regenerator

This idea seeks not to uproot every shred of living carpet - "just" the (humongous, sterile, resource-intensive) areas we don't use.          Owen Wormser is an ecologi

Milkweed's Murderous Other Bugs

The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometim

Mosquito Alert STL: Community Science Bug-Off Power

St. Louis is the first U.S. city using the app Mosquito Alert,  developed in Barcelona, Spain, and in use across Europe. This Citizen Science project combines support for

I Want a Better Catastrophe - Climate Activist Andrew Boyd

"Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the Play?" In his new book I Want a Better Catastrophe, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd navigates the Climate Crisis with grie

STL Story Stitchers: Artist Collective Stands Strong

Creating from The Center in midtown St. Louis, youth artist Story Stitchers collect stories, reframe and retell them through art, writing and performance to promote under