How to make your lawn and garden better for bees
Pesticides and habitat loss are damaging bee populations, but you can help protect them from the comfort of your home with 5 easy actions.
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 1991
B.A., Wartburg College
Steve directs Environment America’s efforts to protect our public lands and waters and the species that depend on them. He led our successful campaign to win full and permanent funding for our nation’s best conservation and recreation program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund. He previously oversaw U.S. PIRG’s public health campaigns. Steve lives in Sacramento, California, with his family, where he enjoys biking and exploring Northern California.
Posts by Steve Blackledge
Sysco, the world’s largest food distributor, should stop using harmful single-use plastic
Sysco delivers wholesale food to a wide variety of businesses including restaurants, hotels and hospitals — but in the process, its use of plastic packaging is contributing to the plastic pollution crisis that kills 1 million marine animals every year.
Five types of urban habitat for bees and butterflies
For bees, butterflies and other pollinators suffering from habitat loss, even the smallest patch of green can be a vital oasis, helping them to survive and thrive.
The “carbon bomb”: ConocoPhillips’ Arctic oil project would threaten wildlife and our climate
Home to caribou and polar bears, Alaska’s North Slope could soon also be the new home of a massive oil project that would pump the carbon emissions equivalent of 66 new coal-fired power plants into the atmosphere.
Bees, forests, the climate and more: Here’s what you helped us accomplish this past year
The past year brought new hope for our planet — but there’s so much more to do to protect our forests, climate, wildlife and more.