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Boy on bicycle. Photograph by Elliott Erwitt.

Upcoming Books: The Comfort of Food

March 19, 2020by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Food does more than feed us – it is essential to human development,  brain health, social interactions, and the joy of being alive. We’re assembling a compendium of the best […]

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Birds, Farming, Fish, Food, Green Practices, Health, Oceans
Courtesy of the Coffeecatcher.com

Earth Heroes: Strong women=Strong Coffee

April 26, 2019by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Florence Njiraini has a trifecta of accolades this Earth Day. She’s a woman coffee farmer in Kenya and a leader in her country’s sustainable farming efforts.  She’s earned the respect […]

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Africa, Farming, Food, Heroes, Sustainability
Hibernating Queen. Courtesy of Conservation Trust

Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!

March 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Food, Gardens, Green Practices, News, Science, Sustainability
Courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa

April 29, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news,  Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]

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Birds, Extinction, Farming, Food, Friday Roundup, News, Rivers, Science, Water, Whales, Wildlife
Maxima Acuna singing a song

Goldman Environmental Prize 2016

April 20, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize awards announced  April 18 in San Francisco were tinged with the sadness that 2015 award winner Berta Cáceres had been assassinated only weeks before in Honduras. This […]

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Africa, Asia, Conservation, Europe, Farming, forests, Health, Heroes, International, Latin America, People, Sustainability
Sloppy Joe’s bar in Havana was used as the setting for Our Man in Havana (1959), here a photo of Ernest Hemingway with actor Sir Alec Guinness, who starred in the film. Sloppy Joe’s was the inventor of the Sloppy Joe sandwich. (Courtesy AP Photo file)

The Essential Cuba Photo Gallery

March 19, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler
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Cities, Cuba, Farming, Food, International, Photo Gallery, Photography, Travel
Passenger Pigeon painting by Walton Ford. Courtesy of the artist. The passenger pigeon went from billions to complete extinction in less than half a century.

Summer Reading: Birds, Butterflies, Bees

July 30, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

 Birds, butterflies and bees — what do they have in common ? This group of 20 books originally posted for Christmas 2014- resource guides, travelogues, memoirs and more — makes […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Books, Butterflies, Extinction, Farming, Food
A monarch perches on a sunflower in Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Courtesy Tom KoernerUSFWS

Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC

July 8, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking on Dow  Chemicals –– and Monsanto too– to stop  the toxic herbicides that threaten Monarch butterflies with extinction. A full-page ad in […]

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Butterflies, Endangered species, Extinction, Farming, Food, Toxics
Summer Tomatoes (CC 3.0 Bobbie Faul-Zeitler)

Food Tank 20 Books to Read (and More)

July 6, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Our friends at Food Tank – one of the best  and most thoughtful web sites on the Internet – offers a sampler of 20  interesting and thought-provoking books that will take […]

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Books, Farming, Fish, Food, France, Gardens, Green Practices
Coyote Courtesy of Wiki

Earth Heroes: Wildlife Killings Search for Truth

April 23, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Why is the federal government trapping, poisoning, gassing and shooting millions of wild animals and birds every year? That’s what Tom Knudson, a two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, wanted to know when […]

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Animals at risk, Birds, Conservation, Documentary films, Endangered species, Farming, Film and television

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