John Chavis Memorial Park, also known as Chavis Park, is located in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina.

The major takeaway from Naomi Klein’s latest book, On Fire:  The Burning Case for a Green New Deal is that we must act NOW and at all levels — personal, social, political, economic, international, spiritual — to safeguard, repair, and conserve our natural environment, planet earth, for ourselves, our children and our children’s children on into the future.

Until we all understand that we live under the same roof, we will not be able to join forces to clean our Earth home.

Water is one of the most important resources on Earth that all plants and animals must have to survive. In order to keep a sustainable supply of usable water, we must measure and maintain the water quality of our water sources. To get a measure of the overall water quality of a water system, scientists often examine streams because they are the source of most bodies of water like oceans and lakes.

We Plant it Forward’s blog is all about sharing what we and others know about nature.

Article review by James Sanner on “How to Halt Global Warming.”

Nature is incredibly resilient and will adapt even if humanity does not.

Read how one company surpassed its goal to plant a million trees by 2020.

A poem by James Sanner.

20 years before Greta Thunberg took the world by a storm through her passionate clarion call, I was leading a school rally on the streets of my small town, distributing paper bags made by students of our school as part of their craft work, to grocery store owners urging them to minimize plastic bag usage. I felt like a champion!

Frequently, when people think of Fungus they think of mushrooms, skin issues, and mold. Sadly, this instrumental life form does not have the best marketing. As turns out Fungi are essential to the earth’s ecosystem and have been for more than 600 million years (Statmets, 2005).