Restoration Nation — An Economy That Restores

A new direction

by Beth on January 19, 2012 · 0 comments

I’ve updated the About page on this blog and checked the links. Soon I will begin providing examples of DIY restoration projects.

All the old posts are still up, so you can still browse them for ideas about restoration. And be sure to check out the Links page to find out about organizations involved in restoration.

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What’s Coming for Restoration Nation

by Beth on July 24, 2011 · 0 comments

in Examples of Restoration

I’m working on changing this blog into more of a how-to site that tells people how to do little restoration projects on their own or get involved with groups that do bigger projects. Since I’m also writing Beth at Home and Abroad and 12 Cities, 1 Year, it’s going to be a slow process.

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Recycling in Missoula: Up and Coming

by Beth July 18, 2011

As an obsessive recycler, I look for recycling facilities wherever I go. I tried to find them in Baton Rouge when Todd had surgery on his ear, and I think I succeeded, though I apparently left no record of it on Beth at Home and Abroad except a note that I had emailed someone about [...]

Chemicals: EU 1, US 0

by Beth July 2, 2011

Here are a couple of interesting posts from the Chemicals and Nanomaterials blog written by Environmental Defense Fund. The first one I’m linking to here describes the process the European Union employs for regulating chemicals of “very high concern.” Source: “More progress under REACH: 13 more chemicals en route to the Authorization list,” Allison Tracy, [...]

Waste Not When Moving

by Beth June 24, 2011

Todd and I sold our house on Wednesday and left Broomfield, Colorado, on Thursday. We put some things in a 10 by 15 storage unit, but most of what we owned ended up being given away, sold, or recycled. And what a recycling job it was! For our technotrash, we used Green Disk, headquartered in [...]

Poets for Butterflies

by Beth June 8, 2011

Mexican poet Homero Aridjis has been working to save Monarch Butterflies for decades. He was one of the people who persuaded the Mexican government to create the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in 1986. Here’s a story about him: “Saving monarch butterflies stirs the ‘poetical soul’ of Homero Aridjis,” Gary G. Yerkey, Christian Science Monitor, June [...]

Possible Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Bees and Other Species

by Beth May 22, 2011

Bees, bats, birds, and amphibians have been experiencing declines worldwide since the mid-1990s, but the problem has become truly terrible since the early 2000s. Researchers have noticed these species dying from a variety of diseases, but now some think the real problem is that pesticides are compromising the immune systems of animals, causing them, like [...]

Outcompeting Weeds in Spruce Gulch

by Beth May 17, 2011

On Saturday I hiked up Spruce Gulch, off Left Hand Canyon Road in Boulder, to see the weed research and eradication projects being conducted there. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, says the landowners asked him and his colleagues to help control weeds without using herbicides. The [...]

Angeles National Forest to Be Restored

by Beth May 10, 2011

The National Forest Foundation will spend the next five years planting trees in an area of Angeles National Forest that was scorched to the dirt. The Station Fire, alleged to be arson, started in August 2009 and was contained in October 2009, burning 161,000 acres of the national forest near the city of Los Angeles. [...]

Restoration as Recreation

by Beth April 2, 2011

Ed Self, executive director of Boulder nonprofit Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, had a great article in the spring 2011 newsletter. I’m going to quote from it here. We normally think of outdoor recreation as doing one of myriad activities such as hiking, mountain biking, skiing, rock climbing, horseback riding, etc. At these times we are “users” [...]

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