Julie Shaddox of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation shares details about the Wild Thumb app developed for Texas to assist users who want to build out their own landscapes with native plants.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Julie Shaddox of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation shares details about the Wild Thumb app developed for Texas to assist users who want to build out their own landscapes with native plants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Julie Shaddox of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation shares details about the Wild Thumb app developed for Texas to assist users who want to build out their own landscapes with native plants. Support the show 

New app guides Texans in growing native plants

Michael Smith is an Arlington-based writer and naturalist. He is author of two books on reptiles and amphibians and a new book <a href='https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648431814/mindfulness-in-texas-nature/'>Mindfulness in Texas Nature</a>, published by Texas A&amp;M University Press in July. The book draws on his expertise in regional ecology as well as his 35-year career as a Psychological Associate. Texas Green Report reporter Marshall Hinsley talks to Smith about how to practice mindfulness in various Texas ecoregions, our resistance to it and what we gain by incorporating nature and mindfulness into our lives.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Michael Smith is an Arlington-based writer and naturalist. He is author of two books on reptiles and amphibians and a new book &lt;a href='https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648431814/mindfulness-in-texas-nature/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mindfulness in Texas Nature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; published by Texas A&amp;amp;M University Press in July. The book draws on his expertise in regional ecology as well as his 35-year career as a Psychological Associate.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Texas Green Report reporter Marshall Hinsley talks to Smith about how to practice mindfulness in various Texas ecoregions, our resistance to it and what we gain by incorporating nature and mindfulness into our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Michael Smith is an Arlington-based writer and naturalist. He is author of two books on reptiles and amphibians and a new book Mindfulness in Texas Nature, published by Texas A&amp;M University Press in July. The book draws on his expertise in regional ecology as well as his 35-year career as a Psychological Associate.  Texas Green Report reporter Marshall Hinsley talks to Smith about how to practice mindfulness in various Texas ecoregions, our resistance to it and what we gain by incorporati...

'Mindfulness in Texas Nature' author pens practical guide

Texas Green Report editor Julie Thibodeaux talks to Ben Pfeiffer, a New Braunfels-based biologist and founder of Firefly Conservation and Research, about what is causing firefly decline and ways we can help bring them back. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Texas Green Report editor Julie Thibodeaux talks to Ben Pfeiffer, a New Braunfels-based biologist and founder of Firefly Conservation and Research, about what is causing firefly decline and ways we can help bring them back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Texas Green Report editor Julie Thibodeaux talks to Ben Pfeiffer, a New Braunfels-based biologist and founder of Firefly Conservation and Research, about what is causing firefly decline and ways we can help bring them back.   Support the show 

Fireflies are disappearing in Texas. Can we bring them back?

Modern life and the world economy depend on a 24-hour system, made possible due to artificial light. Meanwhile the natural world has relied on darkness for many of its critical activities. Marshall Hinsley talks to Michael Rymer of Dark Sky International and Cindy Luongo Cassidy of Dark Sky Texas about how artificial light is harming the natural world and ways we can practice smarter lighting.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Modern life and the world economy depend on a 24-hour system, made possible due to artificial light. Meanwhile the natural world has relied on darkness for many of its critical activities. Marshall Hinsley talks to Michael Rymer of Dark Sky International and Cindy Luongo Cassidy of Dark Sky Texas about how artificial light is harming the natural world and ways we can practice smarter lighting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Modern life and the world economy depend on a 24-hour system, made possible due to artificial light. Meanwhile the natural world has relied on darkness for many of its critical activities. Marshall Hinsley talks to Michael Rymer of Dark Sky International and Cindy Luongo Cassidy of Dark Sky Texas about how artificial light is harming the natural world and ways we can practice smarter lighting. Support the show 

How light pollution messes with Texas wildlife

In this episode of the Texas Green Report, Marshall Hinsley talks to author Doug Tallamy about how the work of maintaining the essential ecosystem services that we all depend on must be taken up by every single person inhabiting the planet. From flood control and keeping pollinators thriving to protecting the plants that produce the oxygen we breath and mitigating the rise in average global temperatures all comes down to every single person on the planet learning to live in a more responsible relationship with the natural systems that sustain us. Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has taught for over 40 years while authoring more than 100 research publications. He&apos;s written several books, including New York Times bestseller Nature&apos;s Best Hope, released by Timber Press in 2020.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the &lt;em&gt;Texas Green Report&lt;/em&gt;, Marshall Hinsley talks to author Doug Tallamy about how the work of maintaining the essential ecosystem services that we all depend on must be taken up by every single person inhabiting the planet.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;From flood control and keeping pollinators thriving to protecting the plants that produce the oxygen we breath and mitigating the rise in average global temperatures all comes down to every single person on the planet learning to live in a more responsible relationship with the natural systems that sustain us.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has taught for over 40 years while authoring more than 100 research publications. He&amp;apos;s written several books, including New York Times bestseller &lt;em&gt;Nature&amp;apos;s Best Hope&lt;/em&gt;, released by Timber Press in 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMSM6V55Q6TZJ"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode of the Texas Green Report, Marshall Hinsley talks to author Doug Tallamy about how the work of maintaining the essential ecosystem services that we all depend on must be taken up by every single person inhabiting the planet.  From flood control and keeping pollinators thriving to protecting the plants that produce the oxygen we breath and mitigating the rise in average global temperatures all comes down to every single person on the planet learning to live in a more responsibl...

For nature to survive, we must practice stewardship at home, says Doug Tallamy

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