Recent Posts
- Fire Safe Landscaping Does Not Start with Landscaping May 1, 2019
- Safe Medicine Disposal Program April 1, 2019
- Our Invisible but Critical Water Source March 1, 2019
- Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Guidelines February 1, 2019
- The Plant Invasion January 1, 2019
- 10 Tips for a Sustainable Holiday Season! December 1, 2018
- Are You Rain Ready? November 1, 2018
- Managing Trash and Reducing Litter October 1, 2018
- Alternative Water Sources – Greywater Reuse September 1, 2018
- Take the Russian River Watershed’s Temperature Day! September 1, 2018
Fire Safe Landscaping Does Not Start with Landscaping
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaThere has been a lot of advice on how to landscape our homes to keep wildfires away (including this column). However, a critical lesson sometimes gets overlooked; our homes are also fuel for a wildfire. Wildfires are not limited to wildland. All too often, once a wildfire reaches a neighborhood, it is the homes in […]
Safe Medicine Disposal Program
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaHave you ever opened your medicine cabinet, picked up a bottle, and realized it has been expired for years or that you had more than you would ever need? A survey in Los Angeles County found that 59% of respondents had medications in their homes that were expired or no longer needed, with 45% of […]
Our Invisible but Critical Water Source
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaYou can’t see them. You can’t swim in them. But groundwater aquifers are one of the most important sources of water in the North Coast. Aquifers are water-rich underground areas. They aren’t like lakes or pools but are composed of water-filled areas between rocks, sands, and gravels. Plants and animals benefit from groundwater when it’s […]
Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Guidelines
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaEvery landscape can have a beneficial impact on the Russian River and the surrounding environment. In 2010, the Russian River Watershed Association (RRWA) created a comprehensive toolbox of principles and practices to provide landscape professionals in the region with guidelines for protecting our environment, known as the Russian River-Friendly Landscape Guidelines (RRFLG): Landscape Locally Landscape […]
The Plant Invasion
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaGive them an inch and they’ll take an acre…as the California Invasive Pest Council says. There are a whopping 195 invasive plant species in Sonoma County. In the northwestern forest region which includes Mendocino County, 265 invasive species have been identified. An invasive plant species is non-native and aggressively out-competes native species! In other words, they […]
10 Tips for a Sustainable Holiday Season!
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaFrom Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, household waste increases by more than 25%! Increased food waste, shopping bags, gift packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons add an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills. It doesn’t have to be this way. Make your holiday season as sustainable as possible by incorporating these 10 […]