Watch this presentation by Douglas W. Tallamy of an online seminar on how we can support the critical biodiversity of our planet on the land by planting native plants and removing invasive plants where our homes, congregations, other organizations, and businesses are located.

Doug is the NY Times bestselling author of Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard and Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens.

The webinar, held on November 7, 2021, was co-sponsored by the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, National Ethical Service, AEU Ethical Action Committee, and others. The Homegrown National Park is compatible with UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action and AEU’s 2018 Resolution on Climate Action.

ACTION: Please play the video from this webinar at your Societies and encourage members to participate in ethical action to support biodiversity “in your own backyards.”

Homegrown National Park™ is a term coined by Doug and is the key to our call-to-action:

“Our National Parks, no matter how grand in scale are too small and separated from one another to preserve species to the levels needed. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park, a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and to a lesser extent where we farm and graze, extending national parks to our yards and communities.”

This perspective is guiding the stewardship of the land where the Riverdale-Yonkers Society is located.