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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T190000
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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/natures-best-hope-virtual-talk-b
 y-doug-tallamy/
SUMMARY:Nature's Best Hope - Virtual Talk by Doug Tallamy
DESCRIPTION:Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion
  fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffect
 ive our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and a
 nimals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to contin
 ue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that n
 one of this is inevitable. Professor Doug Tallamy will discuss simple step
 s that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity an
 d will explain why we\, ourselves\, are nature's best hope.\nDoug Tallamy 
 is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the
  University of Delaware\, where he has authored 103 research publications 
 and has taught insect related courses for 40 years. Chief among his resear
 ch goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plant
 s and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
  His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our 
 Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 Sil
 ver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association. The Living Landscape\, co-au
 thored with Rick Darke\, was published in 2014. Doug's new book 'Nature's 
 Best Hope' released by Timber Press in February 2020\, is a New York Times
  Best Seller. Among his awards are the Garden Club of America Margaret Dou
 glas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd\, Jr. Award of Excellence\, t
 he 2018 AHS B.Y. Morrison Communication Award and the 2019 Cynthia Westcot
 t Scientific Writing Award.\n\nCo-sponsored by the Cary Library Foundation
  and by Lexington Living Landscapes\, a partnership of Sustainable Lexingt
 on\, the Lexington Field and Garden Club\, Lexington Global Warming Action
  Coalition\, and Citizens for Lexington Conservation to promote sustainabl
 e landscaping in Lexington. Learn more at www.lexingtonlivinglandscapes.or
 g.  Open to the public\, no charge. More information about this event an
 d registration are available on the Cary Library events calendar.  Regist
 er HERE.\n\nCary Memorial Library\n1874 Massachusetts Ave\nLexington\, MA 
 02420\n781-862-6288\nhttp://www.carylibrary.org/
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CATEGORIES:Birding,Lectures,Newton Nature Calendar
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