MARCH 2025: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
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FEBRUARY 2025: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
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Recycling the Holidays: Christmas Trees and Holiday Decorations
Discover ways to recycle and reuse holiday items, and learn about the benefits of recycling Christmas trees when ending this holiday season.
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JANUARY 2025: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
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Youth Share Why Monarchs Matter
This summer, our summer program students helped raise or metamorphose over 80 monarchs—but the monarchs weren’t the only ones who metamorphosed.
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Metamorphose with Monarchs: Video
Discover your role in saving monarchs from extinction in this Monarch Masterclass with Monarchs Matter founder Cynthia Zhang (New York, US) and The Monarch Missions founder Olivia Xing (British Columbia, Canada). These two youth environmentalists will dive into raising monarch butterflies, restoring monarch habitat, participating in community science projects, and more!
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Transforming Trash: The Power of Repurposing Organic Waste: Video
In this presentation, ReWild Summer Program Student Organizer Dora Fields explores how organic waste, particularly human hair, can be transformed into valuable resources that contribute to sustainability efforts. Human hair, instead of ending up in landfills, can be repurposed to clean up oil spills, remediate contaminated soil, and more. This not only reduces waste but also helps protect our environment.
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Light Pollution: The Economic and Environmental Impact and What You Can Do About It: Video
Light Pollution disrupts nature, affects human health, and results in energy waste. In this webinar, Susan will discuss the economic and environmental impact of light pollution and offer solutions to ineffective, wasteful, harmful to flora and fauna and obtrusive outdoor lighting.
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Ecoscaping with Water: Native-planted Artificial Bogs, Ponds, and Streams for the Managed Landscape: Video
Join native plant and habitat specialist Joy Cirigliano as she explores ways to attract more wildlife to our properties, using water and native wetland plants. Learn about different ways that a pond, bog, or small stream can be easily incorporated into a garden design, and the ecological benefits it may bring. Find out how to create small water features, and the wildlife that may be attracted to a property with the addition of one. Discover which native plants thrive in watery environs, saturated soils, and frequently flooded areas and how they can be used to enhance specific water features.
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How the World Makes Leftovers Taste Like New: Video
With attention now focused on cutting down on food waste, it's the perfect time to take a new look at the power to transform leftovers. Jacquie Ottman will show us how to save money and cut down on climate emissions by reinventing what's left over from last night's dinner into something new and delicious.
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They Paved Paradise: A Natural and Unnatural History of Long Island's Grasslands: Video
Since the last glacier retreated from Long Island, grasslands characterized the landscape of Long Island's southern half, from the vast tallgrass prairie of the Hempstead Plains to the maritime grasslands of the South Fork. In this webinar, you will learn about the impacts humans since colonial times have had on the grasslands, from degradation and erasure of these ancient habitats to restoration efforts. Slides illustrate the diverse indigenous grassland flora and fauna.
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How to Make Safe Lawn Care Choices for Your Children, Your Pets & Yourself: Video
Exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and excess nitrogen can negatively effect human health. In this webinar, Patti Wood and Lauren Krueger talk about how conventional lawn fertilizers containing biosolids and slow-release fertilizers, which also contain PFAS as well as high levels of nitrogen are endangering our fresh water supply--and what you can do about it.
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Protecting the Jewels of the Night: How you can support Fireflies: Video
Regina Dlugokencky discusses fireflies (aka glow worms and lightning bugs): their life cycles, value as predators of pest insects, the threats to their existence and how you can help conserve and support them!
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DECEMBER 2024: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
Got tips to share? Email us or join our sustainable garden calendar team.
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NOVEMBER 2024: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
Got tips to share? Email us or join our sustainable garden calendar team.
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How to Tag & Track Monarchs for Conservation: Video
Given the alarming 80% decline in monarch butterfly populations over the last 50 years, monitoring monarch butterflies has become increasingly critical for conservation efforts.
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Weekly Newsletter: October 10, 2024
Stay up to date with our weekly newsletter, which includes our calendar for webinars, live events and chapter projects as well as updates on our programs: Community Gardens, Speakers & Gardeners, Summer Program, Native Plant Sales and the Compost Project. Plus, learn about upcoming internship opportunities. ReWild yourself and your community, too.
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OCTOBER 2024: Monthly CROWN Calendar
ReWild promotes five practices that are key to sustainability, easily memorable as CROWN - Composting, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Watering Wisely, Nurturing Natives. Each month, we draft up a few suggestions on these practices that are practical and timely to help you ReWild your space.
Got tips to share? Email us or join our sustainable garden calendar team.
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Weekly Newsletter: October 3, 2024
Stay up to date with our weekly newsletter, which includes our calendar for webinars, live events and chapter projects as well as updates on our programs: Community Gardens, Speakers & Gardeners, Summer Program, Native Plant Sales and the Compost Project. Plus, learn about upcoming internship opportunities. ReWild yourself and your community, too.
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Weekly Newsletter: September 26, 2024
Stay up to date with our weekly newsletter, which includes our calendar for webinars, live events and chapter projects as well as updates on our programs: Community Gardens, Speakers & Gardeners, Summer Program, Native Plant Sales and the Compost Project. Plus, learn about upcoming internship opportunities. ReWild yourself and your community, too.
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