Pauline Lee The first two parts of Our Changing Environment have shown us that life is fragile and can survive only in conditions with limited variability. Five mass extinctions of life when over 90% of living species became extinct occurred between 66 to 500 million years ago due to natural catastrophic events. Afterwards, new species…
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Clubs & Classes, November 2017
Sun Lakes Garden Club
Pauline Lee In our meeting on November 21, Gail Latour, Vermiculturist and Master Gardener, will show us a fun and easy way to compost. She will demonstrate the difference from “hot and cold” composting and how we can “amend” the soil to produce great vegetables and flowers. You will find out how worms can turn…
Features, November 2017
Conservation Corner
Our Changing Environment Part 2: Pauline Lee In recent decades, natural disasters such as drought, floods, extreme storms on land and along seacoasts and wild fires have disrupted human lives, destroyed natural environment and harmed all living species. According to climate scientists, such catastrophes, occurring with evermore ferocity and greater frequency, are caused by increasing…
Clubs & Classes, October 2017
Garden Club news
Pauline Lee Beverly Tall will present a very informative program about orchids at the Sun Lakes Garden Club meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 17. She is an American Orchid Society judge who travels all over the world to judge international orchid shows, as well as those in the U.S. Ms Tall will speak…
Features, October 2017
Conservation Corner
Mass extinction events on Earth – Part 1 Pauline Lee In the beginning of the 19th century, people didn’t even believe living species could become extinct. Thus, when Lewis and Clark explored the unknown American Northwest, Thomas Jefferson was surprised no live mastodon was found, even though their bones had been found in New York.…
Features, September 2017
Conservation Corner
Pesticide – Part 2 Pauline Lee Man has made chemicals to eliminate insects, animals or weeds that are considered to be pests by us. There are many pest control companies out there such as https://www.adamspestcontrol.com/ who will get rid of pests in our homes for us. Unfortunately, these pesticides also harm man, other beneficial beings…
Clubs & Classes, September 2017
Sun Lakes Garden Club to enjoy Scottish castles and gardens
The Sun Lakes Garden Club will enjoy a photographic journey of very old gardens by Jim Anderson for the September 19 monthly meeting. Visitors are always welcome – “Green Thumbers” or hopeless “Brown Thumbers.” Jim is a retired professor at ASU in engineering. He has traveled the world and enjoys photographing castles and gardens from…
Features, August 2017
Conservation Corner
Pesticides – Part 1 Pauline Lee In 1962, Rachel Carlson made the world aware that pesticides can be detrimental to our health and our environment, documented in her book, Silent Spring. These man-made chemicals were created to kill unwanted pests that spread diseases or reduced crop yields in farms. The chemicals, however, killed pests and…
Clubs & Classes, August 2017
Sun Lakes Garden Club news
Pauline Lee On August 15, the Sun Lakes Garden Club will present Jo Setliff, a Maricopa County Master Gardener. She will cover the basics of vegetable gardening in the low desert to prepare us for planting in the fall. She will focus on the Master Gardener resources available for everyone, provided by the planting calendar…
Features, July 2017
Conservation Corner
Sugar and your health Pauline Lee Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, better economic conditions in the Western world have been accompanied by the appearance and proliferation of chronic health problems that require a long incubation period to develop into life-threatening diseases. Typically, health problems begin with periodontal disease (tooth decay). Then for people…