Strange Sanctuary
Old Factories Offer New Hope for Wildlife
Coming in April
Visitors are flocking to see the new
More than 300 species of migratory
life emerging in brown industrial
birds rest, nest and feed here.
lands now morphing into vibrant
Spurred by a need to manage
GREEN
ecosystems as nature reclaims idle
thousands of idle acres, corporations
factories, mines, docks, landfills, rail
like BP, Gulf Oil, Bridgestone and U.S.
spurs, warehouses and parking lots.
Steel have undertaken similar projects.
LIVING
The unfolding rehabilitation is getting
One of the more unlikely is Denver’s
help from the likes of Julie Craves, a
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National
research supervisor at the University
Wildlife Refuge. When the arsenal,
of Michigan-Dearborn, who monitors
which produced nerve gas and other
eight vacant properties that
chemical weapons for the U.S. Army,
the Ford Motor Company
closed in 1992, its 27 square miles
has remade as wildlife
were one of the nation’s most poi-
habitat.
sonous landscapes. Today, “We’ve
Not every industrial
restored the habitat back to short-
site within the 48-mile-long
grass prairie, the way it looked in
Detroit River International
the late 1800s,” says Sherry
Wildlife Refuge will be
James, visitor services
reclaimed. But, says Craves, “I
manager for the
have come to really love this
refuge. The star
juxtaposition of the hyper-urban
of the new staging area is a self-
with resilient nature.” She notes
sustaining, growing bison herd.
how strategic plantings have
attracted songbirds and raptors.
Source:
eMagazine.com
The most effective learning,
the study concluded, occurs when
a school combines e-learning with
classroom teaching. Yet for many
students, online learning is what they
A GREEN LIFE
can afford in time or money. The hope
is that the e-college trend may help
STARTS WITH A
burst the bubble of rising tuition
costs, which now average
GREEN HOME.
more than $25,000 a year for
Virtual Ivy a degree in a private, bricks-
E-colleges Do Work
Look for eco-home
and-mortar institution.
A recent study by the U.S. Depart-
In the past decade, the num-
rehab tips and resources
ment of Education (ED) has found that
ber of university students worldwide
plus other ideas for living
many types of online education for
is up by nearly half to 153 million. more sustainabl
a college degree are better at raising
The need to have a leg up in the
y.
student achievement than face-to-
global knowledge economy is report-
See the April edition of
face teaching is. The big difference,
edly prompting ED plans to create
researchers report, is the time spent on
free, online courses for the nation’s Natural Awakenings.
task, or flexibility in absorbing content.
1,200 community colleges—which
Able to set their own pace, students of-
teach nearly half of our undergrads— For more information
ten study longer or visualize a problem
to make it easier for them to learn
about advertising and how
differently; concurrently, professors are
basic job skills.
you can participate, call
forced to design better instructional
techniques.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
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