These days, I feel like a single candle, cursing the darkness, both literal and figurative. The Anthropocene weighs heavy on my mind, and...

Today is World AIDS Day. By coincidence, the 41st president also just died, reminding me - and the cohort of survivors from his dark reign -...

I'm limiting this list to northern North America for two reasons: Restricting this list geographically is in keeping with my specializ...

On November 1, 1918, the worst transit disaster in New York City history occurred just outside Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...

A small patch of biodiversity - i.e.: weeds - from my driveway. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal has people talking about it,...

2018-06-23 : Updated with more links. Following is the outline, speaker notes, and references of my talk at this year's Native Plants ...

I spoke this year at the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The organiz...

The "weedy" remnants of my front lawn, where Viola sororia , common blue violet , has taken charge. Easily overlooked, it seeds i...

Today I made my way to my first Gowanus Canal Conservancy Native Plant Sale . Today is Earth Day 2018, and today's sale was held at the...

Terrible news. Until this announcement,  Agrilus planipennis , emerald ash borer, or EAB for short, had been found throughout New York sta...