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The Homeward Bound Project: a leadership initiative for femme in STEMM

The Homeward Bound Project: a leadership initiative for femme in STEMM The Homeward Bound Project (HB) is a leadership initiative that aims to increase the influence and impact of women in decision-making to shape our planet. Each year HB selects 100 remarkable women from around the world to join the all-female program that improves and …

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Research Goals

I believe that plants can change the world. I research the illuminating relationships that native plants maintain between their ecosystem, climate, and people. The ecosystem services that plants provide can be strategically implemented to alleviate the effects of climate change and solve other wicked problems. We can filter air and water, stabilize coastlines, regrow with …

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What is a Native Plant?

What is a Native Plant? Native plants belong where everyone knows their name. Be glad yours remain. A native plant is one that has grown within a specific area for hundreds or thousands of years. Over that time, they developed life-sustaining relationships with one another, animals, fungi, microbes, and the non-living landscape. Every native organism …

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Plants Can Change The World

Plants Can Change The World Plants are extraordinary superheroes: they provide a multitude of tremendous services without asking for much in return. For starters, plants supply us with the basic requirements of life (food, oxygen, and shelter), but they also enrich our lives in unnoticed ways. The daily tasks that plants perform are called ecosystem services, …

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