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| How Air Pollutions Affect Your Garden
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By Ellen Brown
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 Let's face it, air pollution isn't the first thing we think of when we see plants struggling in the garden, especially for those of us living in less densely populated areas, Still, like people, plants need access to clean air in order to grow and maintain their health.
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| Posted on: 10/05/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Global Warming: Helping Your Garden Beat The Heat
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By Ellen Brown
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 According to climatologists at the U.S. National Weather Service, a heat wave is defined as three consecutive days with a minimum shade temperature of 90ºF (32ºC). For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that's a pretty good description of at least part of our summer. Global Warming has arrived to our gardens.
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| Posted on: 09/21/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| 10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Fight Global Warming
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By Ellen Brown
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 The debate is over. Scientists agree that planet Earth is in the middle of a warming cycle and human activities that dump CO2 into the atmosphere are helping to turn up the heat. With melting glaciers, more intense weather patterns and vanishing species, we're already starting to see the consequences of rising temperatures.
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| Posted on: 07/21/2006 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Preventing Stormwater Runoff Pollution
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By Ellen Brown
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 Spring is here and that means runoff. Precipitation from melting snow and spring rains that does not naturally soak into the ground flows across impervious surfaces like our rooftops, driveways, sidewalks and streets and picks up a variety of potentially polluting materials along the way.
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| Posted on: 05/17/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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