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"Keeping the Plains" is a column about what individuals can do to make Kansas a better, more sustainable place to live.
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Local food
- Map of Wichita Community/Neighborhood Gardens
- Blog: Love Local Food
- Blog: Our Local Food South-Central Kansas
- Home fruit gardens
- Home vegetable gardens
- Infinite Growth Opportunities (IGO)
'Green' lawns
- Kansas State Wildflower Database
- Dyck Arboretum Native Plant Database
- Extension reports
- Blog: "A Kansas Prairie Garden"
- Kansas Health Yards and Communities
- Composting information
- Certifying your yard for wildlife
Recycling
The state of 'green'
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Rain gardens provide scenic, artistic way to protect your watershed
We drink water every day. We need it to survive. But it’s surprising how little we think about where it’s coming from or what we’re doing to it.
More...Jan. 20, 2012 | Permalink | By Ron Sylvester/Keeping the Plains -
Kansas picks up recycling, serves as national role model
Nearly nine of 10 people across Kansas are recycling.
More...Jan. 13, 2012 | Permalink | By Ron Sylvester/Keeping the Plains -
Following the paper trail of what happens to your recycling
The paper and cardboard in your recycling, including the newspaper where this column appears, ends up in party plates, the biscuit package you smack against the counter or the canister with neatly stacked potato chips.
More...Jan. 06, 2012 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
10 New Year’s resolutions to make a better environment
There’s a great temptation in this business to do year-end lists, but this is a column where I like to look forward.
More...Dec. 30, 2011 | Permalink | By Ron Sylvester/Keeping the Plains -
By recycling more and trashing less, we’re still keeping America beautiful after all these years
Of all the projects of all our first ladies, the one by Lady Bird Johnson may be proving the most successful.
More...Dec. 23, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
Experts can help you design a native landscape for your home or business
As the seeds from my backyard prairie provide winter food for the birds, it’s not too early to begin planning native landscapes for spring planting.
More...Dec. 17, 2011 | Permalink | Ron Sylvester -
Put the earth on your gift list this Christmas season with these tips
Bing Crosby crooned of a “White Christmas,” Elvis sang a “Blue Christmas,” but at our house we’re looking for a green Christmas.
More...Dec. 10, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
Protecting natural resources shouldn’t be a political issue
This column is not about politics.
More...Dec. 02, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
Driving 60 mph provides interesting insights while saving fuel
The thought of slowing down to save gas gave me flashbacks to high school in the mid 70s and having to drive around 55 mph.
More...Nov. 25, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
What Waste Connections does with your unsorted recycling
Don Rogers hears you whispering about that unsorted recycling you leave on your curb.
More...Nov. 18, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
Growing her own food helped one author’s diet, lifestyle
Deborah Niemann and her family grew about 6,000 pounds of their own food last year on their 32-acre farm in rural Illinois. But she started with a jar of alfalfa sprouts.
More...Nov. 11, 2011 | Permalink | RON SYLVESTER -
Corporate exec finds working "green" saves greenbacks
Some corporations are reducing costs and expanding profits with environmentally friendly practices. Here's what one national company is doing to help its business -- and others.
More...Nov. 05, 2011 | Permalink | BY RON SYLVESTER
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