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Helping Your Landscape

Mar 31, 2020 10:30AM ● By Melinda Myers

Winter in the Midwest can be hard on our landscapes. Help your landscape recover from winter with proper pruning, managing dieback, deciding what to replace and restoring your lawn’s health and beauty. These are perfect tasks for spring stay-at-home weekends.

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Tech Trends

Mar 31, 2020 10:30AM ● By Liam Kivirist and John D. Ivanko

Numerous tech trends are transforming our relationship with food, health care and daily life.

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Planet Rescue: Grassroots Strategies Combat Climate Crisis

Mar 31, 2020 08:30AM ● By Julie Marshall

Around the globe, green activists of all ages are taking unified action to protect our planet against climate change with resolve, passion, and creativity.

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Climate Warriors Unite: A Call to Action

Mar 31, 2020 08:30AM ● By Sandra Yeyati

Awakened by personal concerns and ignited by emerging role models like Greta Thunberg, activists of all ages are learning how to become effective climate change warriors.

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Looking for Loons in all the Right Places

Feb 28, 2020 08:18PM

Loons can typically be seen in this region about the middle of March through mid-April, with some lingering into mid-May and an occasional individual spending the summer. But they haven’t nested here in more than 100 years.

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Channeling Our Inner Botanist

Feb 28, 2020 07:16PM

Plants sustain us. Like air and water, we need plants to survive. As it turns out, indoor plants don’t just look good, they also play a role in human health and comfort.

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Big Blooms

Feb 28, 2020 10:00AM

Sponsored Content Everything is coming up roses, azaleas, perennials, annuals and more when the annual Chicago Flower & Garden Show presented by 811 Chicago and Peoples Gas, ushers in spring from March 18 through 22 at Navy Pier.

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Hemp Gets Hot: Meet the Hardest Working Plant on the Planet

Feb 28, 2020 08:30AM

Environmentally friendly industrial hemp has created high hopes among farmers, agricultural researchers, manufacturers and consumers.

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Wild Animals Leave Clues to Their Presence

Jan 31, 2020 12:00PM

In natural areas, on driveways or in backyards, rabbits, mice, coyotes, foxes, birds and maybe even a mink leave signs of their presence with footprints in the snow.

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