Podcast appearances and mentions of Douglas W Tallamy

Cultivating Spiritual Growth: A Journey with Dina van Klaveren Join Jon and Lauren as they welcome the Rev. Dina van Klaveren, an Episcopal priest with a rich history in parish ministry, now serving on the diocesan staff in Maryland. Dina discusses her journey from parish ministry to her current role, her passion for development and stewardship, and her dedication to congregational vitality. She shares insights into the breadth of ministry across the diocese, her personal spiritual practices, and her transformative experience as a Master Gardener. Dina's discussion highlights the importance of humility, intentionality, and gentle stewardship of our environment.00:00 Welcome and Introduction00:11 Dina's Journey in Ministry00:48 New Role and Responsibilities02:51 Surprises and Challenges05:11 Personal Joys and Practices14:07 Gardening and Spirituality26:37 Final Thoughts and AdviceResources mentioned by Dina:"Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships" by Marshall Rosenberg https://a.co/d/bNWi1Mz"Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard" by Douglas W. Tallamy https://a.co/d/etfcAE7"How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard" by Douglas W. Tallamy https://a.co/d/5cXkZjx"Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping (Color Print): Chesapeake Bay Watershed" https://a.co/d/i0Qk2GRThe Episcopal Diocese of Maryland: https://episcopalmaryland.org/Audio version of this episode is available at podcast platforms linked to https://listening-for-clues.captivate.fm/listenThe Good News! podcast series is part of the ListeningforClues portfolio. Catch us at https://listeningforclues.com/© 2025 Listening for Clues

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers-LaBadie and gust Srah Robertson from the Liberty Branch Library. This week we chat about books we've recently read and the upcoming Frankenstein! Myth, Monster, and Popular Culture program at the Liberty Branch Library! This program is made possible, in part, by Ohio Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Ohio Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities Recommendations include Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy, The Night Shift by Alex Finlay, and My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.  Read more about today's episode here. Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM: https://wdlrradio.com/program-schedule/off-the-shelf/  This episode originally aired on September 20, 2024.

Greg and Dan speak with Jenni Davis of the Peoria Public Library about Peoria Reads 2024, a citywide literary event that invites all residents to read the same book at once chosen by a committee that has the ability to resonate with all Peorians..  This year's book is Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy. Nature's Best Hope explores a grassroots approach to conservation that is practical, effective, and easy to implement.  Peoria Reads 2024 kicks off during National Library Week, April 7-13, and the PPL will host Tallamy for a virtual author event on April 17th. Visit peoriapubliclibrary.org for more information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  Edie's guest today is Douglas W Tallamy, entomologist at the University of Delaware and author of Nature's Best Hope. This podcast presentation of the show has been edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  Edie's guest today is Douglas W Tallamy, entomologist at the University of Delaware and author of Nature's Best Hope. This podcast presentation of the show has been edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I think of the word “meadow,” I imagine a glorious landscape filled with grasses and wildflowers swaying in the breeze. While beautiful, these meadows also seem completely out of reach for most home gardeners. But in this episode, meadow expert Graham Laird Gardner, author of ‘Tiny and Wild: Build a Small Scale Meadow Anywhere,' is here to show us that we can recreate tiny meadows, even on the smallest scale.In this episode, we learn:[03:40] How Graham became the “meadow man”[06:27] Living off-grid in Puerto Rico[07:54] Why did he write a book about meadows?[11:34] We are nature![13:22] What makes a meadow a “meadow”? (and why it's better than cut flower garden)[15:31] Treat yourself to a comforting, soothing moment with Wind River Chimes[17:01] Learn self-sufficiency and homesteading with Kevin Espiritu's book: Epic Homesteading[18:27] What are the benefits of adding a meadow to your yard or local community garden?[21:10] What makes a native plant native, and how much of your meadow should be native plants?[24:11] Are all native plants perennials?[26:10] Are shrubs and trees what distinguish a meadow from a forest?[26:27] How little of a lawn could be converted without significantly affecting the overall effect?[27:52] What are the components of a meadow?[31:30] Consider seasons and species when planning your planting[32:26] Understanding meadow maintenance[35:04] What are the basic design elements that you need to think about in a meadow?[35:23] Site Selection[36:17] Layering and plant selection[38:40] Is there an ideal sun exposure for a meadow?[39:56] How do you balance the wild and the chaotic when designing a native plant meadow?[43:18] Seeds vs plants[48:08] Why should you have a meadow?[50:04] Where can you find Graham on social media?Mentioned in our conversation:Book by Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native PlantsBook by Graham Laird Gardner, Tiny and Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow AnywhereBook by Kevin Espiritu, Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard HomesteadHomegrown National ParkCatskill Native NurseryFor a complete list of meadow gardening basics,check out the full show notes and blog here!Thank you to our episode sponsors:Wind River ChimesThis new year, bring more peace, serenity, and magic into your home with chimes. Wind River is a Virginia-based company creating premium handcrafted and hand-tuned wind chimes for over 35 years. If you are looking for a new way to grow joy in your life and find a moment of peace, a Wind River chime is the perfect addition to your home or garden. Plus, it's a perfect personalized gift for your loved ones!Visit windriverchimes.com and use code GROWINGJOY to receive free engraving on all Corinthian Bells wind chimes.Quarto: Epic Homesteading by Kevin EspirituTake the first step towards self-sufficiency with Epic Homesteading, an accessible, beginner-friendly guide to starting a modern, high-tech homestead with advice on growing and preserving food, raising chickens and bees, utilizing solar power, harvesting rainwater, and so much more. Follow large and small step-by-step DIY projects to power up your homestead quickly, as well as advice on more complex subjects, such as investigating local zoning regulations and permitting requirements, staying organized, understanding your limitations, and designing your homestead for efficiency and beauty.Grab Epic Homesteading at your favorite local bookstore, bookshop.org, quarto.com, Barnes & Noble, or amazon.com. Follow Graham:InstagramLinkedInLinktr.eeFollow Maria and Growing Joy:Order my book: Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants) by Maria Failla, Illustrated by Samantha LeungJoin the Bloom and Grow Garden Party Community Platform & App AKA the plantiest and kindest corner of the internet! Get your FREE 2-week trial here!Take the Plant Parent Personality Quiz (Get the perfect plants, projects and educational resources for YOUR Lifestyle)Support Bloom and Grow Radio by becoming a Plant Friend on Patreon!Instagram: @growingjoywithmariaTiktok: @growingjoywithmariaSubscribe to the Growing Joy Youtube channel! /growingjoywithmariaWebsite: www.growingjoywithmaria.comPinterest: @growingjoywithmariaOur Sponsors:* Check out HelloFresh and use my code bloomfree for a great deal: https://www.hellofresh.com* Check out Quince and use my code joy for a great deal: https://www.quince.com/* Check out Quince: https://www.quince.com/* Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Kathryn Spence has spent years compiling, sorting and transforming culture's discards into sculptural objects that reveal a human determination on the topic of sufficiency. Fascinated with space, materiality, and objectness, she attends to materials conventionally wasted to produce installations and individual objects that act as a point of unhinging between the natural world and the controlled world. The show being discussed is Kathryn Spence at P. Bibeau, September 9 - October 22, 2022. Kathryn Spence (b. 1963) resides in the Bay Area and is featured in numerous public collections including SFMOMA, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Mills College at Northeastern University, the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Museum solo exhibitions include the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 2010, the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, 2001, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 1999. Spence is a recipient of the Anonymous was a Woman award, the Eureka Fellowship, an Artadia award, and the Fleischhacker Foundation award. Her 'Pigeons' were recently on view at SFMOMA in ‘Greater Than the Sum,' 2021-22. Spence showed for 18 years at Stephen Wirtz in San Francisco. The books mentioned in the interview are: Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard  and E.O. Wilson, Half Earth. Installation (close-up) P.Bibeau Gallery, 2019-22Socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, bed sheets, curtains, necktie, fabric scraps, found crocheted and knitted project parts, brown corduroy, yarn, cell phone ads, string, thread, mud, felt, wood, cardboard, pencil drawings, field guides, magazine scraps, stuffed animal fur, wax, plaster, plywood. Photo by Peter Sit. ‘Untitled, (Great gray owl)' 2019-22:: Gray socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, fabric scraps, stuffed animal fur, cardboard, bird field guide pages, wax, wood. Photo by Peter Sit. 'Untitled, (Boreal owl),' 2019-22 Found crocheted and knitting project parts, scraps of fabric, yarn, fur from stuffed animals, field guide, cell phone ads, cardboard, thread, string, mud. Photo by Peter Sit.

Chris and Emily sit down for a good old fashioned book chat. There's no interview this episode, just us. Emily is reading an advance copy of Elizabeth Strout's forthcoming novel, LUCY BY THE SEA (9/20/2022), and Katherine May's memoir, THE ELECTRICITY OF EVERY LIVING THING: ONE WOMAN'S WALK WITH ASPERGER'S. Chris is deep into MANSFIELD PARK by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR) and getting back into THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson. We've read some good stuff since our last episode! THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (issue 4) by Sarah Gailey, THE WOMAN COULD FLY by Megan Giddings, A LOST LADY by Willa Cather (for the Mookse and The Gripes Podcast summer book club), THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MAY by Jamie Ford, and NATURE'S BEST HOPE: A NEW APPROACH TO CONSERVATION THAT STARTS IN YOUR YARD by Douglas W. Tallamy. Emily headed north to Maine for a two-day event with Katherine May and Elissa Altman at The Barn Swallow Book Shop in Rockport. Chris braked hard for a historic marker in Newport, New Hampshire honoring editor, writer, and women's rights advocate Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879). She also attended an online event hosted by Bank Square Books/Savoy Bookshop & Cafe with Dr. Mark Haper, author of CHILL: THE COLD WATER CURE. We also had a Biblio Adventure together to see the movie adaptation of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. We gave it two thumbs/paws up! We love marshland and all the critters therein except mosquitos and flies which were noticeably absent from the movie. But as conservationist Douglas Tallamy explains, bugs are an integral part of our survival on earth so we will work on our attitudes towards insects. Tallamy writes in NATURE'S BEST HOPE: “As insane as our war against insects may seem, and as effective as it has been, I am nevertheless optimistic that we can form a new relationship with insects and treat them like the good fairies they are. Why am I willing to put a smiley face on this? Two reasons: First, our response to insects is, in part, an oversimplified, innate reaction to things that hurt or annoy us now and in our distant past. If bees sting and mosquitoes bite, it is easy to group all small flying things into one category we label enemy. But we now have knowledge on our side, and with that, we have the capacity to be a bit more discriminating. We can easily learn to distinguish the good from the bad, the helpful from the irritating. By numbers, nearly all insects are harmless and beneficial, and we can learn to appreciate rather than kill the insects that we rely on just as easily as we can learn that dogs, through genetically identical to wolves, can be our loving pets rather than our predators. I am also confident that we can form a new relationship with insects, because we have done it many times before with other creatures. Whales still swim in the sea because we have learned to value the earth's largest species as majestic living beings instead of as mere providers of lamp oil. Wolfes hunt in Yellowstone again because we now know they are essential to the long-term persistence of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Puffins, auklets, and murres have returned to many Aleutian Islands because we have decided not to let the rats we introduced to those islands eat their brains as they sleep. Fish breed again in the ocean sea kelp beds off California because we now prefer that our sea otters keep sea urchins in check rather than become our fur coats. Egrets fly once more over the Everglades because we value their showy feathers more in flight than on ladies' hats. And we are well on our way to forming a new relationship with bees, even though they sting, because we have finally realized we cannot exist without their pollination services. These and many more examples of how we have come to appreciate rather than destroy nature have convinced me that we can also learn to share the earth with the most essential of all creatures, the little insect fairies at our feet” (127-128). To see all of the books and events mentioned in this episode, check out the show notes at: https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2022/episode162

This week I’m speaking to Professor Doug Tallamy, author of amongst other things, the internationally influential wildlife gardening books Bringing Nature Home and Nature’s Best Hope. Prof. Tallamy calls for an urgent rethink of gardening methods and backs up these calls with an illustrious career's worth of research, facts and figures This interview is a must-listen for wildlife gardeners everywhere! Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Rosemary Leaf Beetle About Prof. Douglas W. Tallamy: “Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 95 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 40 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants 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 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association. The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014. Doug's new book 'Nature's Best Hope' was published by Timber Press in February 2020. Among his awards are the Garden Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence, the 2018 AHS B.Y. Morrison Communication Award and the 2019 Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award.” - http://www.bringingnaturehome.net What We Discuss: The problem with thinking that nature is somewhere else, that it’s outside our garden fences The most compelling reasons to choose natives over non-native plants in gardens Carrying capacity and why it’s important to humans The problem with losing species that have evolved as specialist feeders Are our native trees disease prone and do non-natives provide us with a healthier alternative? Key research that needs to be done and what people can do in order for us to keep moving in the right direction Links: www.bringingnaturehome.net  Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy - Timber Press, 2020 Get in touch: Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk Website www.rootsandall.co.uk  Twitter @rootsandall  Instagram @rootsandallpod  Help me keep the podcast free & independent! Support me on Patreon  Or donate as much or as little as you like at GoFundMe 

On today’s episode of the Park Leaders Show, we have an old friend joining us. John Griffith has guested on six episodes over the past six years and has been integral in the growth of the show. John is a huge voice in the conservation movement and has worked to educate the masses for many years with a 19-year stint in the California Conservation Core and as the host of Wild Jobs on Animal Planet. John has now transitioned to a place of passion as a Nature Guide or Interpreter for the North Coast District of California State Parks. While tenure may have him as the “new guy”, his background in social media and creating relevant education have helped him build a thriving educational program even during the current pandemic we are experiencing. Today we discuss the importance of empowering guests and visitors to recreate the awe they experience in a natural setting and translate it to the nature around them in their daily lives. The importance of sowing seeds of inspiration in the short touchpoints nature guides have is key to taking their visit from terminal to transformative. By associating learning about nature with fun and utilizing entertaining methods, a passion for conservation can be cultivated one visitor at a time.   Episode resources: Book Recommendation: Bringing Nature Home – by Douglas W. Tallamy https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Nature-Home-Wildlife-Expanded-ebook/dp/B003UV8ZTE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Bringing+Nature+Home&qid=1589334645&sr=8-1&tag=stephprodu-20 Humbolt Redwood State Park Page –https://www.facebook.com/HumboldtRedwoodsStatePark/ Facebook Page: @Griffwilds - https://www.facebook.com/GriffWild/ Facebook Group: @Griffswildtips  https://www.facebook.com/groups/GriffsWildTips/ Instagram: @thenaturenut  https://www.instagram.com/thenaturenut/ YouTube: John Griffith https://www.youtube.com/user/TotemMagicGoingMAD

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. This time out, Gary talks with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler, about the challenges of concentrating in times of stress, but also the value of collective co-operation and respect for scientific evidence and the question of whether the current situation might encourage us to think more broadly about our responsibilities as co-inhabitants of this planet. Books mentioned include: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Eye of the Whale by Douglas Carlton Abrams The Widowed Warlock by Helen Sanders Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes (short story at Tor.com) The Overstory by Richard Powers Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy     

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, “Bringing Nature Home,” awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation—wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more native plants. In this new book, “Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard,” Douglas takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation, demonstrating to homeowners everywhere how they can turn their yards into conservation corridors and wildlife habitats. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, Douglas W. Tallamy is joined by regular contributor to the show, Pete Muroski of Native Landscapes for a look at how to make a difference in your front yard.