Category: Ecology
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How Glyphosate (Roundup) Harms Ecosystems
Glyphosate (Roundup) is the most common herbicide used for ecological restoration globally (about 40% of the time when herbicides are used). Because glyphosate is used to often in environmental restoration projects with the aim to eliminate invasive species (here’s why focusing on invasive species can backfire), it’s important to understand the impacts of using it.…
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The Relationship Between Permaculture and Invasive Species
Permaculture is an attempt to incorporate indigenous wisdom, local ecology, and an understanding that all living beings including humans are connected in the web of life from the tiniest bacteria to the largest whales. Permaculture is a design process, a way of observing, learning about, and caretaking land that is intended to provide sustainable abundant…