By Ella Tyler I was more than a little surprised to see a large display promoting the ‘greenness’ of Fiji bottled water at the grocery store. The display explained that Fiji will be carbon negative by 2010, it’s bottled in a better kind of plastic, and the company is helping save the Fijian rain forest.
May is a big month for celebrations – Mothers’ Day, graduations, weddings, Memorial Day, baby showers, and last-day of school are all occasions for a party. However, one party can blow your eco-diet as badly as your loose-weight diet.
By Ella Tyler A free pocket guide to the twenty most dangerous invasive plant species in the Galveston Bay Area has just been published by Galveston Bay Estuary Program and the Houston Advanced Research Center. The guide has color pictures of the listed plants and includes information about their local distribution, preferred habitat, reproduction, and growth patterns.