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Business

Honey Bees Get New Home in Missouri

The people of Kansas City, Missouri should start seeing a few more honey bees buzzing around after the help of a few volunteers.

August 27, 2013

Landscaping equipment

10 commonly forgotten excavator applications

It’s common knowledge that you can dig with your compact excavator. Traditional trenching and excavating keep thousands of landscaping contractors employed on jobsites every day. However, compact excavators have built-in versatility and business expansion opportunities you may not have considered.

June 3, 2013

Business

What if the World’s Soil Runs Out?

It’s a strange notion, but some experts fear the world, at its current pace of consumption, is running out of useable topsoil. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with TIME, talked to University of Sydney professor John Crawford on the seismic implications soil erosion and degradation may have in the decades to come.

December 18, 2012

Business

Drought-Stressed Trees Face Race to Adapt

Scientists have known for some time that climate change and the impacts of longer droughts and higher temperatures could pose a problem for forests. But many thought it would only affect a minority of trees, perhaps just those in extremely arid regions.

December 7, 2012

Lawn maintenance

Sustainable Landscaping Guidelines

National pilot program that rates sustainable landscaping takes off. When the U.S. Green Building Council rolled out the red carpet more than a decade ago for its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program, aimed at encouraging the creation of sustainable, eco-minded architecture, landscapers were largely left standing outside the velvet ropes.

November 27, 2012