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Credit Feras Abdallah / PLA, LEED® Green Associate™ There are things that we can do and when it comes to butterflies our yards, farms and community gardens and parks can be the difference between life and death for these little friends. Scientists are finding that towns where people garden in a bee safe manner, convert lawns to food plants for pollinators, do not spray pesticides, and provide cooling shade and flowers are safe havens for rapidly disappearing species of butterflies. Milkweed is an amazing source of life for butterflies and, fun fact its silky fluffy seeds, were used in lif...

5:08 Calla Rose Ostrander explores how stars are born and wishes KVNF listeners Cosmic Love this Valentines Day. These nebula star nurseries are full of movement, stellar winds and massive turbulence, that shapes denser gases and dust into cloud-like formations. Over many thousands of years groups of clouds coalesce around each other and as they come close, the gravitational force created by their mass pulls them in until they collapse together and become combined even denser masses. The density of this matter causes the core of what will, 50,000 years later become a star.  The density of t...

Credit Feras Abdallah / PLA, LEED® Green Associate™ As we face one of the worst droughts in modern history, trees can help us fight the challenges of heat, dryness, dust and mental fatigue. Street trees offer immense benefits and we need to do as much as we can to care for them! With trees, bigger is better as many of the positive attributes they offer exponentially increase with the tree’s size. Residents living under and around big urban trees benefit from: temperature reduction, moisture, filtration of dust and soot, slowing of dry desert winds, savings in energy costs, increases in p...