Homeowners Can Preserve and Create Wildlife Sanctuaries Right in Their Own Backyards

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The New Conservation Movement: Home Wildlife Sanctuaries

I’ve been reading “Nature’s Best Hope” by Doug Tallamy. Doug Tallamy is an award-winning author and professor at the University of Delaware. There, he also serves as the chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology. Tallamy specializes in studying the way insects, plants and ecosystems interact. Over the years, he has discovered that insects are essentially “host plant specialists.” This means that they have evolved to block the chemical defenses of certain plant species.

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Healthy Ground for a Healthy Environment

Healthy Ground for a Healthy Environment

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Two articles on the benefits of cover crops to soil health crossed my desk this month. The simultaneity of these articles piqued my curiosity. One article, “A Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past,” was in the New York Times and the other, “Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere,” was in Environmental Health Perspectives’, a National Institutes for Environmental Health Sciences online publication.  The crux of these cover crop articles is that by maintaining plant cover in fields intended for cash crops, farmers are able to rejuvenate the soil, prevent erosion, reduce fertilizer use, decrease the fuel consumption (by not having to till or fertilize), retain moisture, increase yields while also sequestering carbon, recharge the aquifer, and protect the watershed. Whew! The economic benefit is substantial. Mr. Rulon, a farmer in Indiana estimates net annual economic benefit from using cover crops is more than $69 per acre. Read more

Doos New Year Innovation Blog

Doos New Year Innovation Blog

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THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE RED FIRE MONKEY!  We all know that the monkey is a clever and playful animal who can be an effective problem solver but also a trickster.  Year of the monkeyAs we celebrate 2016’s Year of the Red Fire Monkey, there should be exuberance, entertainment and time for devoted entrepreneurs to carry on their innovative ways.  However, those looking for quick and easy solutions could get duped as some monkey spirits will be on the ball, and quick to have their fun and games.

Doo Consulting wishes all of its colleagues, clients and friends the very best in 2016. Though it is the year of the Fire Monkey, according to Chinese Five Elements Horoscopes, Monkey also contains Metal and Water. Metal is connected to gold. Water is connected to wisdom and danger. Therefore, we will deal with more financial events in the year of the Monkey. Metal is also connected to the Wind. That implies the status of events could change very quickly. Think twice before you leap when making changes for your finance, career, business or personal relationships in 2016. Your individual prospects for the year can be found here.

DOO’S NEWS

We want to thank everyone who is a part of our ever expanding network. Our portfolio grew in geographic and economic breadth. We returned to our consulting roots with the opportunity to work on the development of sustainability plans for the City of Bowie, Maryland, and the Broadmead Retirement Community. A new accreditation in the WELL Building Standard

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Nature is here to stay. Are we

Nature is here to stay. Are we?

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Nature is speaking.  Will we listen?  In time? Watch these beautiful vignettes about specific elements of nature – water, the forests, soil, flowers – appreciate the glory and power of each as expressed in the narration that accompanies each gorgeous self portrait – including a feature of mother nature herself.  The message is clear.  Nature is powerful, All of nature is VERY necessary for our lives and ability to live – for the air we breath and food we eat.  But make no mistake.  We are not necessary to nature.  Not much more needs to be said.  But much needs to be done.   Does everyone understand, each in their way, in their place? can we have the conversations about what can and must be done?  Do we have the will to make reparations where they must be made?