Save Land/Save Ourselves
Over the past 544 million years, Earth’s had five major extinction events. A major extinction is one where between 70% and 90% of all species on the planet are lost – never to be seen again. Each of the five was...
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The Big Three
Have I mentioned “The Big Three”?
These are the three things – in some combination – that all life needs to survive: air, water and food.
Humans live just a couple of minutes without oxygen (which is...
Water: Don’t Waste a Drop!
In McHenry County, water is all around us: Groundwater. Wetlands. Watersheds. Stormwater. Even so, all of the water people use locally comes from the ground. Municipal and private wells reach down into “groundwater aquifers”...
Don’t take water for granted
I am fascinated by water.
Humans can only survive a few days without it, and our bodies are 65% water. Less than one percent of the water on planet earth is available for people to use because the vast majority of water is...
Can People Learn to Live with Trees?
It seems that local trees have been in the news a lot this year. And it looks like the trees are often losing to “progress” or “infrastructure.”
Here are just a few of the items I’ve heard about...