How you can address the global biodiversity crisis from here in Chicago

As natural areas decline across the world, small patches of nature in highly developed areas play an outsized role in climate adaptation

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A monarch butterfly rests on a milkweed plant
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A monarch butterfly rests on a milkweed plant

How you can address the global biodiversity crisis from here in Chicago

As natural areas decline across the world, small patches of nature in highly developed areas play an outsized role in climate adaptation

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A new city ordinance has made it easier to jump on this spring’s hottest landscaping trend – planting native species of grasses and flowers in your yard to benefit pollinators, provide habitat for wildlife, sequester carbon and filter runoff.

Reset checks in with our sustainability contributor and a Field Museum ecologist about the current state of biodiversity in Chicago, and what you can do to help.

GUESTS: Karen Weigert, Reset sustainability contributor, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility

Abigail Derby Lewis, ecologist at the Keller Science Action Center at the Field Museum