Fall Webworms: Friend or Foe?
There is a spectacle that occurs in summer each year around Yellow Springs that generates both amazement and concern among citizens and...
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Catherine Zimmerman
Jun 26, 20223 min read
'Keystone Species' Vital
My love of the land started very early, on a small farm in Miami County, Ohio. My Dad, a third-generation vegetable farmer, was a very...
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Bethany Gray
Jun 6, 20223 min read
The Free Advice of Birds
“The ability of the birds to show us the consequences of our own actions is among their most important but least appreciated attributes....
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Mayor Pam Conine
May 25, 20224 min read
‘Capture the positive’ on Earth Day
In 1960, my father bought a 15-foot travel trailer following my mother’s declaration that she would agree to camping vacations only if we...
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John Baldasare
Mar 13, 20223 min read
The allure of local nature
My heartfelt appreciation to all the environmental activists and stewards of nature in our community. I suppose we have a higher number...
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Marianne MacQueen
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Tecumseh Land Trust and affordable housing
“Affordable housing, farmland preservation and native habitat conservation — are they mutually exclusive?” Affordable housing, farmland...
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Piper Fernway
Oct 20, 20214 min read
Meet the Sustainability Champions
The Sustainability Champions, from left, are Reilly Dixon, Alexandra Klug, Florentina Rodriguez, Zach Bollheimer and Nancy Lineburgh. Not...
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Piper Fernway
Sep 2, 20213 min read
Help to craft sustainability plan
Yellow Springs has an impressive history of supporting the environment, including climate action studies, Council resolutions,...
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Victoria Hennessy
Jul 24, 20214 min read
Recycling confusion
The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen as one of the world’s biggest environmental...
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Catherine Zimmerman
Jul 5, 20214 min read
Down to Earth Launches
There is no Planet B. No escape possibilities, no magical solutions to save us from a world ailing from human destabilization of earth’s...
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Marianne MacQueen
Apr 21, 20217 min read
Earth Day 2021— Ecologically conscious villagers share efforts
As Faith Morgan told me in a recent interview, it is difficult to wrap our heads around the magnitude of the problems we have created...
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