This document promotes the idea of "No Mow May" and rewilding lawns to support biodiversity. It provides reasons for allowing lawns to grow wild in May such as providing food and habitat for insects, birds, and other wildlife. Not mowing allows native plants to grow and flowers to bloom, attracting more species. Monocultures in lawns are criticized for lacking diversity and attracting pests, while polycultures are praised for their resilience. Quotes from various sources further explain the benefits of natural landscapes and meadows over conventional lawns in terms of supporting the web of life.
how to design an edible landscape: unleash your inner gardenerJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a tiny yard or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too! Edible landscapes filled with trees, shrubs, berries and perennial vegetables are a beautiful, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, increasing biodiversity, and attracting birds.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Forest this being is: becoming forest stewards in a changing climateJoyce Hostyn
As gardeners, we've been colonized. We plant lonely trees, pines in lines and cookie cutter landscapes. How can we rewild ourselves and our approach to gardening? How can we learn to see forests as beings? How can we become forest stewards in a time of climate change?
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Layering wildscapes: designing with plant communitiesJoyce Hostyn
When designing wildscapes, you need to think like a walnut, see like a squirrel, be like a bee and forage like a bird. Wildscapes replicate the layered structure of wild ecosystems to maximize biodiversity, habitat, resilience & beauty.
How to design a beautiful edible forest gardenJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a small space or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too. Edible forest gardens mimic natural forests, but edibles are prioritized in plant selection. They're a natural, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, providing a habitat for wildlife and beautifying your home.
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
how to design an edible landscape: unleash your inner gardenerJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a tiny yard or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too! Edible landscapes filled with trees, shrubs, berries and perennial vegetables are a beautiful, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, increasing biodiversity, and attracting birds.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Forest this being is: becoming forest stewards in a changing climateJoyce Hostyn
As gardeners, we've been colonized. We plant lonely trees, pines in lines and cookie cutter landscapes. How can we rewild ourselves and our approach to gardening? How can we learn to see forests as beings? How can we become forest stewards in a time of climate change?
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Layering wildscapes: designing with plant communitiesJoyce Hostyn
When designing wildscapes, you need to think like a walnut, see like a squirrel, be like a bee and forage like a bird. Wildscapes replicate the layered structure of wild ecosystems to maximize biodiversity, habitat, resilience & beauty.
How to design a beautiful edible forest gardenJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a small space or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too. Edible forest gardens mimic natural forests, but edibles are prioritized in plant selection. They're a natural, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, providing a habitat for wildlife and beautifying your home.
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
How to design a beautiful garden that attracts birds Joyce Hostyn
“Birds are good ecological indicators. If you have a diverse native bird population, it’s a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy.” Convert your lawn to a beautiful, bird friendly garden. Biodiverse gardens provide the food niches, nesting sites, shelter, water, and safety that our native birds (and insects) need.
Biodiversity is the variety of life in all its forms, levels & combinations. To maintain the biodiversity of the Gaian organism is of vital importance because each species represents a node of connexion in the complex web of Life which sustains us. At the moment our industrial & highly consumerist civilization is responsible for the disappearance of some 200 species per day.
These are converted into human biomass on a daily basis, but we're destroying the foundation that support our own survival. So there is a big job to do. In this class we explore some direct ways of increasing biodiversity at a local level, like seed recuperation, habitat protection, & starting to change our diet in a conscious way so that it adapts better to the indigenous ecosystem of our region, instead of trying to adapt nature to our whims.
¿Why are trees so important? If we all plant some 10,0000 trees each we can prevent climate catastrophe, regenerate lost soils, increase biodiversity and preserve vital ecosystems & cycles. Trees are the biggest and oldest living beings on Earth. But around 75% of the ancient forest are vanished for human action.
So it's urgent for us to know and understand trees, how to plant them, how to care for them,how to return them to their most important place in nature.In this class we will learn about tree biology and tree functions as well as their influence in our culture.
Explore the benefits of using SE U.S. native plants in the home landscape for exceptional beauty and reduced maintenance. Discuss the influence of introduced plants on the horticulture industry, cultivars v.s. species, and more..
At about the time humankind discovered agriculture, forests covered about 50% of the land area on planet Earth. Now they barely cover some 30%, & falling. This is now the single most urgent physical repairing of the environment we need to engage in, as forests are so vital for every aspect of life on Earth, safeguarding the vital cycles of air, water, earth, stabilizing the local & global climate, creating soil & habitats for a huge number of species, sustaining entire economies & our health.
Forests play a key vital role on many levels as they are so basic & even primal for humans. In this class we get intimately acquainted with Forests, their make-up, how they work & especially we learn how to design Forest Gardens: our future human habitat, if we are to survive & thrive as humans
Janet Davis from Hill House Farm and Nursery talks about the benefits of using native plants in your yard.
This presentation was given at PEC's Sustainable Landscaping Workshop on August 29, 2015 in Warrenton, VA.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
How to design a beautiful garden that attracts birds Joyce Hostyn
“Birds are good ecological indicators. If you have a diverse native bird population, it’s a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy.” Convert your lawn to a beautiful, bird friendly garden. Biodiverse gardens provide the food niches, nesting sites, shelter, water, and safety that our native birds (and insects) need.
Biodiversity is the variety of life in all its forms, levels & combinations. To maintain the biodiversity of the Gaian organism is of vital importance because each species represents a node of connexion in the complex web of Life which sustains us. At the moment our industrial & highly consumerist civilization is responsible for the disappearance of some 200 species per day.
These are converted into human biomass on a daily basis, but we're destroying the foundation that support our own survival. So there is a big job to do. In this class we explore some direct ways of increasing biodiversity at a local level, like seed recuperation, habitat protection, & starting to change our diet in a conscious way so that it adapts better to the indigenous ecosystem of our region, instead of trying to adapt nature to our whims.
¿Why are trees so important? If we all plant some 10,0000 trees each we can prevent climate catastrophe, regenerate lost soils, increase biodiversity and preserve vital ecosystems & cycles. Trees are the biggest and oldest living beings on Earth. But around 75% of the ancient forest are vanished for human action.
So it's urgent for us to know and understand trees, how to plant them, how to care for them,how to return them to their most important place in nature.In this class we will learn about tree biology and tree functions as well as their influence in our culture.
Explore the benefits of using SE U.S. native plants in the home landscape for exceptional beauty and reduced maintenance. Discuss the influence of introduced plants on the horticulture industry, cultivars v.s. species, and more..
At about the time humankind discovered agriculture, forests covered about 50% of the land area on planet Earth. Now they barely cover some 30%, & falling. This is now the single most urgent physical repairing of the environment we need to engage in, as forests are so vital for every aspect of life on Earth, safeguarding the vital cycles of air, water, earth, stabilizing the local & global climate, creating soil & habitats for a huge number of species, sustaining entire economies & our health.
Forests play a key vital role on many levels as they are so basic & even primal for humans. In this class we get intimately acquainted with Forests, their make-up, how they work & especially we learn how to design Forest Gardens: our future human habitat, if we are to survive & thrive as humans
Janet Davis from Hill House Farm and Nursery talks about the benefits of using native plants in your yard.
This presentation was given at PEC's Sustainable Landscaping Workshop on August 29, 2015 in Warrenton, VA.
Gardeners need to understand the scope of plant extinction and how all native animals depend on the evolved species of a given landscape. They need to see the garden more as a habitat than a collection of alien plant "pets". Growing efforts need to consider the food and shelter value of plants to birds and the insects they eat. Features the work of Doug Tallamy and the Habitat Network.
Integrating Native Pollinators into Wildlife Conservation Practices slide notesNancy Adamson
These slide notes accompany a slideshow of the same name prepared by Nancy Lee Adamson (Xerces Society), many other Xerces Society staff, & Carol Heiser (VA Department of Game & Inland Fisheries), for Virginia Master Naturalists promoting meadow establishment for pollinator & upland game conservation, with input & support from Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries biologists & the USDA-NRCS East National Technology Support Center.
Similar to No Mow May: Support Multispecies Resurgence (8)
Designing food forests: fruit & nut tree guild handoutJoyce Hostyn
Looking for palettes for groups of species that work together interdependently to inspire your design of guilds (plant communities) for a food forest?
Featured guilds:
- eat your ornamentals
- native bounty
- urban orchard (apple & pear)
- nature's pharmacy
- medieval potager
- asian cooking herbal
- edible fence
- native nuts (black walnut, butternut, shagbark or shellbark hickory, chestnut or oak)
In Permaculture: A Designers Manual Bill Mollison says that "We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently."
Guilding is a permaculture technique that learns from and works with the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system.
Unlike monocultures – a field of corn, a traditional apple orchard or a grass lawn – guilds are polycultures of diverse plants, insects and animals that support each other in a mini ecosystem. They’re designed around a primary food producing species (such as an apple tree) along with diverse, multi-functional support species to maximize the health and productivity of the guild. They produce a wide variety of useful products such as food, medicine, fibre, wood and dye.
By considering the whole plant community, – placing plants carefully in relation to each other in a way that facilitates interconnection and support rather than competition (for example, plants with different root systems such as shallow vs tap roots)
- Nitrogen fixing plants, along with species that supply phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other minerals, fertilize food producing plants
- Soil food web recycles plant debris to build healthy, moisture retentive soil
- Insectary plants attract beneficial predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps as well as pollinators such as native bees that increase fruit and vegetable yield
- Strongly aromatic plants such as oregano, garlic, thyme and yarrow confuse pests, preventing them from discovering the plants they like to eat
- Diversity attracts a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, insects and birds to increase system health
- Dense layer of herbaceous and groundcover plants suppress unwanted species and protect the soil
Little Forests as Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Nature CanadaJoyce Hostyn
Little Forests are collaborations between plants, soil, organisms, land, climate, geology, & people. Disturbed land naturally returns to forest in 150 to 200 years. Because of the urgency of climate change, Dr. Akira Miyawaki designed a method that squeezes those 150 years into a 20-30 years.
What might a place where we park our car for an hour become?
What might a path, road, or active transport route become?
What might a parking lot become?
What might an apartment building become?
What might a school become?
What might a median become?
What might a front yard become?
What might our cities become?
Dr. Akira Miyawaki says that "Real forests made up of trees native to the area are three-dimensional, multi-layered communities having 30x the surface area of greenery of single-layered lawns, and have more than 30x the ability to protect against natural disasters and to conserve the environment."
Each of us is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration. Each little forest is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration.
Presented during "Learn How to Implement Nature Based Climate Solutions in your community" hosted by Nature Canada.
"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
"In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used."
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
Can Kingston become a City in a Forest?Joyce Hostyn
Imagine it’s 2030. Every child can look out their window and see trees (and the many creatures these trees support). On even the hottest days they can walk or bike along a tree-lined street to play, visit birds or hug a tree in a nearby forest. 3-30-300 builds climate resilience for extreme heat events.
We now know that our century long quest for the perfect lawn is contributing to our climate emergency. It's time to reimagine curb appeal. Natural climate solutions offer immense possibility for helping Kingston achieve its strategic goals. Presentation to Kingston's EITP Committee.
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
the art of creativity: asking provocative questionsJoyce Hostyn
Since we live in the world our questions create, "the most interesting thing you can do in life... is to call into question the rules of the game.” Questions make the impossible possible, help the unknown become known, and transform paradigms. To transform yourself, transform your organization, or transform the world learn the art of asking provocative questions.
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Employee Communities: Community Centric ChangeJoyce Hostyn
Customer Experience starts with the employee experience, but changing the employee experience can be very difficult. Most change methods are still based on an outdated top-down rational view of organizational change. How can we rewire organizational DNA to create great customer experiences? How can we shift the hearts, minds and behaviors of every employee? These are the questions we're wresting with as we rethink our approach to employee experience. Our new strategy is centered on an employee community of peers that we are promoting through internal content marketing. It might be working. Presented at CXPA Members Insight Exchange.
Digital literacy - a new language for disruptionJoyce Hostyn
To achieve the digital enterprise, you need a workforce that embraces new ways of working. One in which they’re able to harness the power of information, collaboration, and communities to get their jobs done. This requires treating digital as a new language. One with a different grammar and syntax from what people are used to. And learning a new language isn't easy. How can we empower people through digital literacy to work smarter, treating digital as a language to use to express ideas and create magical experiences that people choose to participate in and, as a consequence, change their behavior? How can we get people dreaming in digital?
Whether you’re working on designing better experiences or you’re an organizational change agent trying to transform your organization, listening is one of the most important skills in your toolkit. To understand what people truly need you need to be a great listener. To build trust and diffuse negative energy you need to be a great listener. To transcend the assumptions and worldviews that constrain your thinking you need to be a great listener. But listening is really hard. Most of us are poor listeners because we’ve never been taught how to listen. To become a powerful listener, treat listening as an active skill to work at.
Despite the fact that some governments are taking behavioral science and its challenges to the model of the rational individual very seriously, most enterprises still haven’t changed the way they deploy technology. No wonder 85% of ECM implementations fail to live up to expectations. Can the insights shared by Kahneman and others shed some insight onto this dilemma? Can we increase success by rethinking our approach to enterprise software deployments based on an improved understanding of how people perceive their environment, are swayed by others, and choose to act?
Mapping the customer experience: innovate using customer experience journey mapsJoyce Hostyn
Do you know what your organization looks like from your customer’s perspective? In the digital age, silos and organizational bureaucracy manifest themselves through your digital presence. You can bridge these silos and overcome a bureaucratic inside-out mindset by visualizing the customer (learner, elder, citizen, patient, employee) experience through a customer experience journey map that captures both actual and emotional aspects of the customer experience. Then, map in hand, you can use it to design great outside-in customer experiences for your organization.
authoring a hero's journey: finding meaning through storyJoyce Hostyn
We live, learn, and remember through story. Our brains weave each experience into the overall narrative that shapes who we are. Yet seldom do we step back to examine or consciously shape the overall story of our lives. As designers, many of us have a desire to change the world. And yet, as Leo Tolstoy said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” If design is change, if we want to use design to effect change, shouldn’t we first think about changing ourselves by designing our own story? For the stories we tell ourselves can change the way we see the world and, by extension, change the world itself.
Designing with content: a customer experience journeyJoyce Hostyn
Content has a significant role to play when we approach the design of the customer experience holistically. And yet content has long been neglected. It’s time to change that. Content strategy, by designing experiences with content, can have a significant impact on an organization’s bottom line.
What's your story? Designing a holistic customer experienceJoyce Hostyn
An experience always exists and always generates an impression, but seldom by design. Silo'd approaches result in fragmented experiences and dissatisfied customers. No wonder only 8% of customers report their experience with a given company was superior.
How can we craft a cross-silo content strategy designed to deliver a superior, holistic, customer experience across all customer touchpoints and all stages of the customer lifecycle?
Predictable Irrationality If You Build What They Ask For, They Will Not ComeJoyce Hostyn
Traditional approaches to defining and deploying enterprise software fail to account for that fact that people are influenced by their environment, emotions, shortsightedness, and other forms of irrationality. How do we get past the predictable irrationality of people to redefine the problem and create experiences that people will embrace?
From a workshop I facilitated at Vizthink 2009 on why stories are more effective than fact based methods at communicating complex ideas and inspiring people to want to change.
Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
Please visit our website: https://kuddlelife.org
Our Instagram channel:
@kuddlelifefoundation
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and write to us if you have any questions:
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Diabetes is a rapidly and serious health problem in Pakistan. This chronic condition is associated with serious long-term complications, including higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Aggressive treatment of hypertension and hyperlipideamia can result in a substantial reduction in cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes 1. Consequently pharmacist-led diabetes cardiovascular risk (DCVR) clinics have been established in both primary and secondary care sites in NHS Lothian during the past five years. An audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery at the clinics was conducted in order to evaluate practice and to standardize the pharmacists’ documentation of outcomes. Pharmaceutical care issues (PCI) and patient details were collected both prospectively and retrospectively from three DCVR clinics. The PCI`s were categorized according to a triangularised system consisting of multiple categories. These were ‘checks’, ‘changes’ (‘change in drug therapy process’ and ‘change in drug therapy’), ‘drug therapy problems’ and ‘quality assurance descriptors’ (‘timer perspective’ and ‘degree of change’). A verified medication assessment tool (MAT) for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease was applied to the patients from one of the clinics. The tool was used to quantify PCI`s and pharmacist actions that were centered on implementing or enforcing clinical guideline standards. A database was developed to be used as an assessment tool and to standardize the documentation of achievement of outcomes. Feedback on the audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery and the database was received from the DCVR clinic pharmacist at a focus group meeting.
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
Natural farming @ Dr. Siddhartha S. Jena.pptxsidjena70
A brief about organic farming/ Natural farming/ Zero budget natural farming/ Subash Palekar Natural farming which keeps us and environment safe and healthy. Next gen Agricultural practices of chemical free farming.
Micro RNA genes and their likely influence in rice (Oryza sativa L.) dynamic ...Open Access Research Paper
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs molecules having approximately 18-25 nucleotides, they are present in both plants and animals genomes. MiRNAs have diverse spatial expression patterns and regulate various developmental metabolisms, stress responses and other physiological processes. The dynamic gene expression playing major roles in phenotypic differences in organisms are believed to be controlled by miRNAs. Mutations in regions of regulatory factors, such as miRNA genes or transcription factors (TF) necessitated by dynamic environmental factors or pathogen infections, have tremendous effects on structure and expression of genes. The resultant novel gene products presents potential explanations for constant evolving desirable traits that have long been bred using conventional means, biotechnology or genetic engineering. Rice grain quality, yield, disease tolerance, climate-resilience and palatability properties are not exceptional to miRN Asmutations effects. There are new insights courtesy of high-throughput sequencing and improved proteomic techniques that organisms’ complexity and adaptations are highly contributed by miRNAs containing regulatory networks. This article aims to expound on how rice miRNAs could be driving evolution of traits and highlight the latest miRNA research progress. Moreover, the review accentuates miRNAs grey areas to be addressed and gives recommendations for further studies.
"Understanding the Carbon Cycle: Processes, Human Impacts, and Strategies for...MMariSelvam4
The carbon cycle is a critical component of Earth's environmental system, governing the movement and transformation of carbon through various reservoirs, including the atmosphere, oceans, soil, and living organisms. This complex cycle involves several key processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and carbon sequestration, each contributing to the regulation of carbon levels on the planet.
Human activities, particularly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, have significantly altered the natural carbon cycle, leading to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and driving climate change. Understanding the intricacies of the carbon cycle is essential for assessing the impacts of these changes and developing effective mitigation strategies.
By studying the carbon cycle, scientists can identify carbon sources and sinks, measure carbon fluxes, and predict future trends. This knowledge is crucial for crafting policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions, enhancing carbon storage, and promoting sustainable practices. The carbon cycle's interplay with climate systems, ecosystems, and human activities underscores its importance in maintaining a stable and healthy planet.
In-depth exploration of the carbon cycle reveals the delicate balance required to sustain life and the urgent need to address anthropogenic influences. Through research, education, and policy, we can work towards restoring equilibrium in the carbon cycle and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
7. And
humans wonder
why they need to rent
travelling
beehives.
monocultures are
the hallmark of what’s wrong
in agriculture today… Nature loves
the symbiosis of many different
species — microbial, plant, animal —
all living together, one
benefitting from the other.
~Farmer Will Harris
George Steinmetz, National Geographic
8. ❤ A life without animals is not worth living❤ , Pixabay
[a lawn] is authoritarian.
Under the mower's brutal
indiscriminate rotor, the landscape is
subdued, homogenized, dominated
utterly.
~Michael Pollan, Why Mow
Please don’t
mow!
9. Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Biodiversity—diversity within
species, between species & of
ecosystems—is declining faster
than at any time in human history
~Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity &
Ecosystem Services, 2019, IPBES
10.
11. Nicholas Erwin, Flickr
yellow-
banded bumblebee
American bumblebee
yellow bumblebee
cuckoo bumblebee
rusty patched bumblebee
About a third of Toronto’s native
bees have drastically declined
or disappeared
22. [biodiversity is the]
wondrous, teeming, calamitously
threatened variety and variability of
life on earth, sometimes measured by
species richness.
~Robert McFarlane
23. That gifts that were
being offered was evident in
the general hum and flutter of
insect life. The meadow was audible
with bees and crickets; the mowed grass
was silent. The meadow waved and
nodded in the wind; crowds of
leafhoppers leapt to the brush of a
hand. The lawn was deadly still.
~Sara Stein, Noah’s Garden
24. What we need
now is to
deeply love the
wild earth
Photo by Bob Travis on Flickr
25. v
I can make a
difference. I can manage
[rewild my lawn] in a way that
contributes to the ecological
fabric of the city and the life
of a city.
~Dr. Carly Ziter
26. No Mow May
homes had three times
higher bee richness and
five times higher bee
abundances.
~Appleton
35. A landscape is a
multispecies
gathering in the
making.
~Kenneth Olwig
A landscape isn’t
just backdrop or
scenery.
36. Andras Vas, Unsplash
I am
landscape
When we look deeply into the leaf,
we can see many things. We can see the
plant, we can see the sunshine, we can
see the clouds, we can see the earth.
When we utter the word “leaf”, we have
to be aware that a leaf is made of non-
leaf elements. If we remove the non-
leaf elements, such as the sunshine, the
clouds, and the soil, there will be no
leaf left.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
37. Human body is a
multiplicity that doesn’t
end at the skin.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
I am
landscape
Illustration by bedelgeuse.tumblr.com
38. We’re all—trees, humans,
insects, birds, bacteria—
pluralities. Life is embodied network... where
ecological & evolutionary tensions between
cooperation and conflict are negotiated & resolved.
These struggles often result not in the evolution of
stronger, more disconnected selves but in the
dissolution of the self into relationship. Because life is
network, there is no “nature” or “environment,”
separate & apart from humans. We are part of the
community of life, composed of relationships
with “others.”
~David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees
BBC
41. We’re in the Manitoulin-Lake
Simcoe Ecoregion of the Mixedwood
Plains Ecozone. Before colonization, this land
was 90% forest. The Mixedwood Plains supported a
greater diversity of trees and plants than any
other part of Canada. Now only 17-20% of
Indigenous forests remain, mostly in
wetlands.
42. The idea of lawns
being somehow compulsory is
a largely British idea, passed on
like a raging infection to
certain of the colonies.
~Noel Kingsbury
z
Stuart Yeates, Flickr
43. International Boreal Conservation Science Panel
Over half of the 690
species of concern in Ontario
use habitat in southern
Ontario forests
44. Photo by Jim Williams
forests are home to 80%
of the world’s terrestrial
biodiversity.
We need
more forests!
56. Jill Wellington, Pixabay
Before manicured
lawns, with their chemicals,
mowers, and blowers, there were
ecological meadows, with their
butterflies, birds, and bees.
~Penny Lewis, Ecological Landscaping
Association
62. Bee lawn at Kenwood Park in Minneapolis. Rachel Urick/University of Minnesota Bee Lab
Tell your
neighbours
you’re growing a
bee lawn
63. Better yet, tell them
you’re supporting multispecies
resurgence!
64. My imperfect lawn… is the
floor, and the causeway to get around
in my landscape. It stops erosion and slows
rainwater, allowing infiltration, cleaning
and restoring water to deeper soils and
eventually to aquifers.
~Carol Reese
65. In an organic yard,
Fernando takes a decaying blade of
grass down in his burrow and munches on
it "These things are my favorite!" says
Fernando. "I need some more!" Back at the surface,
Fernando finds some home made compost "What is
this? Oh my! This is my new favorite!
(munch munch) It's so good! (munch munch) How
can this be crunchy and chewy AT THE SAME TIME!
Oof, I'm so full. I wanna have sex and have lots
of babies so they can enjoy the crunchy
chewy stuff.”
~Paul Wheaton
Organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy, Paul Wheaton
67. Mowing Lawn Turf, MSU State Extension & University of Nevada Cooperative Extension & Organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy, Paul Wheaton
68. New England Wildflower Society
Got shade?
Pennsylvania sedge feeds
up to three dozen species of
caterpillars
69. Barren strawberry (Waldstenia fragarioides) Mt. Cuba Center
this is may be the answer
to the persistent question about
evergreen native ground covers.
EVERYONE is looking for that native
alternative to pachysandra, vinca and
English Ivy. This, my friends, may
be what you are looking for.
~James Brown, New Moon Nursery
72. A weed is a plant
that’s mastered every
survival skill except for
learning how to grow in
rows.
~Doug Larson
73. Get to
know our
stories.
plantago lanceolata
(Oginii-waabigwaniin) was
considered one of the nine
sacred herbs of the ancient
Saxons.
Gardens All
74. Ron Guest Field of Hope, Flickr
What is this being
telling me?
What are ways I can listen?
Who are you?
Why are you here?
What have you brought us? Let’s get to know you and what
you're bringing.
What do you need?
What are your relationships? Who is your family?
How do you fit in?
Who do you dream of becoming?
~Modified from Robin Wall Kimmerer
81. Colleen Codekas, Grow Forage Cook Ferment
When I see a yard full of
weeds, it says to me, it’s a vibrant
yard… there’s more food growing where
people don’t ‘groom’ their yards with
chemicals
~UC Berkeley Professor Philip Stark
82. Try eating
your salad from
the sidewalk.
~Mark Bittman
Salad From the Sidewalk by Philip B. Stark, NY Times
84. NY State IPM Program at Cornell University, Flickr
it is seldom the
rare, exotic, and beautiful
plant that proves the most
interesting, more often it is some
common, familiar, and despised weed
that is discovered to have
undreamed-of virtues.
~Euell Gibbons
85. Lori Carlson, Flickr
nectar of creeping charlie attracts
long-tongued bees primarily, including
honeybees, bumblebees, mason bees, a cuckoo
bee, a long-horned bee, an Anthophorine bee, and
small carpenter bees. Occasionally, the flowers
attract green metallic bees, bee flies, a Syrphid fly,
Sulfur and White butterflies, and skippers.
caterpillars of a polyphagous moth feed on the
foliage of Ground Ivy, while the larvae of Ground
Ivy Gall Wasp form galls on the stems,
petioles, or leaves.
~Illinois Wildflowers
88. No one needs a
surgeon who keep
Prunelle
~French proverb
Early settlers
called it “heart of
the Earth”
Ingijibinaa
Ogijibinaan
Very Great, Drawing Out One,
The Great Drawer-Outer
89. Wildness
matters more now than it ever
has. We’re urbanizing at a pace
unprecedented in human history… We have
to look at the landscapes we live in as
places where nature could be
[multispecies refugia].
~Thomas Rainer
93. [Landscape] need
not be understood as being
either territory or scenery; it can
also be conceived as a nexus of
community, justice, nature, and
environmental equity, a
contested territory.
~Kenneth Olwig
Tiny Forest Science Park, Utrechtse Biologen Vereniging
94. Think of
rewilding as an
embodied land
acknowledgement
supporting multispecies
resurgence.
Celebrate
no mow May by
rewilding your
lawn.