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What can we do, right now,
in our own landscapes, to help solve climate change?

Gold Winner, Foreword INDIES Book
Awards: Ecology & Environment

"Read this
book carefully. Everything you need to know to help heal our relationship with
planet Earth and empower you to make a much-needed difference is within these
pages."--From the foreword by Doug Tallamy

Praise
for the first edition:

"The
volume of information here is impressive, and each action is accompanied by an explanation
of why it's important. . . . Useful whether read cover-to-cover or dipped into
for specific topics."--Booklist

"Beautifully
designed, the book is user-friendly and attractive. The information is current
and science-based, with end notes that give readers access to further research."--Virginia
Native Plant Society

"This
fantastic resource is filled with climate-wise solutions for anyone who owns or
manages a piece of ground--even if it's just a few containers on a tiny rooftop
garden."--Claudia West, ASLA, Principal, Phyto Studio LLC

"[Reed and
Stibolt] articulate a new gardening aesthetic. . . . The result is a positive
and hopeful story of how people can use their imagination and ingenuity to help
craft more resilient landscapes."--Dr. Peter Robinson, former CEO, David Suzuki
Foundation

"Beautiful
photos and pleasing graphics illustrate key ideas and actions while informative
sidebars and inspiring quotes from climate and landscape experts provide
clarity of complex systems and motivation to adapt to a changing future."--Julie
Richburg, Ph.D., ecologist

"A book on
climate-wise landscaping could not be more timely or more necessary. We are
moving into a new and critical era, and this book takes landscape professionals
and home gardeners where they need to go."--Owen Dell, RLA, ASLA, landscape
architect, educator, author, Owen Dell & Associates

"A very
useful guide to designing landscapes for the twenty-first century which clearly
respond to our changing climate."--Darrel Morrison, honorary associate faculty member
in landscape architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Predictions
about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire--but we're
already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms.
Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex and can leave us as
individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done.

Sue
Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response--instead of wringing our
hands, let's roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed
with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or
garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home.
Topics include:

Working actively to shrink our
carbon footprint through mindful landscaping and gardening
Creating cleaner air and water
Maximizing resource efficiency
Supporting birds, butterflies,
pollinators, and other wildlife.

As climate
change continues to intensify around the globe, the information in this second
edition of Climate-Wise Landscaping
is needed now more than ever. This book is the ideal tool for homeowners,
gardeners, and landscape professionals who want to be part of the solution to
climate change.

Welcome to Palm Beach, America's first resort destination, where leisure is always in style.

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Rick Rose's bestselling guide offers in-the-know advice to make the most of a visit to Palm Beach--America's first resort destination!

-Peek inside historic sites and architectural landmarks where American
aristocracy has enjoyed sophisticated, tropical elegance since the Gilded Age.
-Browse the exclusive boutiques of Worth Avenue then indulge and relax in this
celebrated tropical paradise.
-Enjoy the many arts, cultural, and sporting events the Palm Beaches have to offer.
-Explore the outdoors with a bicycle ride along the Palm Beach Lake Trail or an
airboat tour in the Everglades.
-Meet the wildlife at Manatee Lagoon, Lion Country Safari, and Loggerhead
Marinelife Center.

A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate."

In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a book that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul--and his own. It is a book that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent--a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.

In 1539, explorer Hernando de Soto landed near Sarasota, Florida, but centuries passed before the Sarasota-Manatee area saw many settlers. By the late 1840s, a few pioneers had arrived, but it was not until 1913 that the first Jewish person settled here. Other Jewish families followed, but no organization connected them until the Jewish Community Center of Sarasota was established in 1925. For early Jewish settlers, the biggest problem was isolation rather than discrimination. By the 1950s, when the region was experiencing a post-war population boom, some of Sarasota's most prominent citizens were Jewish. They played an enormous role in creating Sarasota's businesses, charitable organizations, and cultural assets, including the David Cohen Hall and the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The Jewish Community Council, a precursor of the Jewish Federation, formed in 1959. Sarasota-Manatee now has 13 Jewish congregations and a thriving Jewish population. While the Jewish people of the area cannot be thanked for the sunny weather, they can be thanked for helping the community shine.