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Lending A Hand To Access Public Land

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss access, Alyssa Ravasio, American Alpine Institute, C&NN, camping, Children & Nature Network, Hipcamp, Huckberry, land, Mountainsmith, Nearby Nature, Outdoor Afro, REI, Sierra Club

Access Land and other groups want the government to make campground availability data freely available to help more Americans access public land.

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Green Apparel: Not Just A Color Choice

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer apparel, clothing, Common Threads, cotton, crop, fashion, fertilizer, green apparel, inputs, land, Noso, outerwear, pants, Patagonia, patch, patches, pesticides, polyester, Press, recycle, reuse, Scalable, Scalable Press, second use, shirt, shirts, style, Worn Wear, WornWear

Apparel manufacturers such as Patagonia, Scalable Press and Noso are finding new ways to shave their carbon pollution and otherwise green their practices to have less of an environmental impact moving forward.

Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Housing Bubble

Megan Wild buildings, California, density, disuse, home, housing, land, landfill, median, Palo Alto, price, rehab, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, space, vacant

Building on landfills? Rehabbing Old Buildings? Planning for Greater Density? These are among the sustainable solutions some planners would like to see put in place to solve the housing crisis in Northern California…

House & Home

Backyard Project Ideas That Have a Low Environmental Impact

Megan Wild bakyard, gardening, green, land, native, native plants, neighborhood, plant, project, upgrade, wildlife

Backyard Project Ideas: Upgrade your little slice of heaven with these green backyard project techniques that anybody can accomplish….

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Is Private Land Conservation More Important Than Saving Our Parks?

Roddy Scheer American Farmland Trust, conservation, conserve, land, land trust, Land Trust Alliance, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, Pacific Forest Trust, private, Stewardship Partners, trust

Private property makes up about 60 percent of the total land base across the United States, and landowners are starting to do their part to protect the environment there.