Nature’s Best Hope …
each of us can make a difference

by Doug Tallamy

We have experienced many challenges this summer including both drought and excessive heat. Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope. If many people make small changes, we can restore healthy ecological networks and weather the changes ahead.
Join Doug Tallamy for a talk on Nature’s Best Hope – each of us can make a difference.
Thursday evening, August 29th. Doug’s presentation will be held at:

Long Nguyen & Kimmy Duong Forum
Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003
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There is a $15 registration fee and a presale of some of Doug Tallamy’s book as supplies last, with the net proceeds going to help the newly established Green Spring Master Gardener Association.

Doors open at 5:30 pm with refreshments and networking. Talk begins at 6:00 pm.
Reserve your spot below, order any books as an option, then make your online payment.
Northern Virginia Community College does not sponsor or endorse this event.

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    In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants.
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  • Doug Tallamy Presentation

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    General registration for the Doug Tallamy Talk Thursday, August 29 5:30 pm with Refreshments and networking 6:00 pm presentation Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale, VA 22003
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