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Ebook About "Jim’s superb guide will motivate landowners to embrace their environmental responsibilities no matter what ecosystem they live in." Douglas Tallamy - Author of Bringing Nature HomeSUBURBITAT – will be a great benefit to city planners, developers, landscape architects, HOA boards, homeowners, and anyone interested in creating beautiful landscapes that restore biodiversity and conserve natural resources. This book tells the story of the American West from the perspective of one piece of land on Colorado’s Front Range that would become a 3000-acre mixed-use development (Centerra) home to the High Plains Environmental Center. From the arrival of Euro-Americans in the 19th century and the subsequent farming, water projects, and development that altered the landscape to the removal of Native American tribes and their traditional land management practices during the same time frame, this book explores the human impacts on the ecology of the Rocky Mountain West, resulting in the present condition of the land. Reconciliation with both the land and its indigenous people is an underlying theme throughout the bookSUBURBITAT offers detailed strategies for establishing and managing native landscapes, including grasses, shrubs, and flowers, that help to reduce demands on dwindling water supplies while restoring natural habitat. However, this is more than simply a book on gardening with native plants; it addresses human obstacles to conservation, including preconceptions about how landscapes should look while advocating strategies for working with rather than eradicating wildlife.This book contains over 180 photographs, video links that illustrate the content, and a detailed planting chart listing 260 native plant species. All proceeds support the environmental stewardship mission of the High Plains Environmental Center.Book SUBURBITAT: A guide to restoring nature where we live, work, and play Review :
Suburbitat provides a wealth of vital ecological knowledge, both through widely applicable academic ecological theory and through the kind of attention to local detail and longstanding local culture that can only be given by someone intimately familiar with the land. As such, the book is an instant must-read for environmentalists on the Front Range. But it’s also fair to worry that Suburbitat could lead people to the mistaken impression that suburban sprawl can actually be made sustainable.At times, Suburbitat nearly admits that suburbs can’t be made fully sustainable. For instance, Tolstrup teaches us that prairie dogs need uninterrupted undeveloped space so their colonies can migrate over the years, and that turtles and roads are a match made in hell -- problems that simply cannot be solved within the suburban paradigm. One could add Doug Tallamy’s insight that suburbs almost uniformly provide “edge” habitat rather than areas far enough from human disturbance to create certain types of ecological space that many species strictly require.The substitute ecology Tolstrup has admirably created over the years requires heroic amounts of effort to build: mass intentional plantings, diligent weeding, even earthworks at times. This implies that to ensure the existence of habitat, an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure, because once land is developed, it takes heroic effort to return it to a mere simulacrum of its wildness. (This is especially true considering that in typical Colorado suburbs, 70% of the developed area is taken up by roads and other car infrastructure, and therefore cannot become habitat at all.) For these reasons alone, true ecological conservation mandates the immediate halt of suburban expansion into truly wild habitats and prime farmland.But these immediate land-footprint effects of sprawl only scratch the surface of suburbs’ ecological problems. The City of Boulder has a per-capita carbon footprint roughly 15% higher than Denver’s and over twice as high as New York City’s, and this is a close proxy for non-GHG pollution as well. This difference is inherently due to Boulder’s suburban form: Boulder’s spread-out development means that residents are locked into dependency on cars, which require much more energy and are much more pollutive than the walkability, bikeability, or good transit that moderate density can enable. (Electric cars mostly move cars’ pollution problem elsewhere: Even on the cleanest grids, electric cars still emit roughly a quarter as much as gas-powered cars, and Colorado’s grid is slated to be quite dirty for the foreseeable future.) Home heating is another major driver of suburban emissions because single-family buildings do not share walls and floors, and because suburban homes are typically larger, in part to accommodate the belongings people need to live comfortably without nearby urban amenities. Between these two major inefficiencies of the suburban mode -- inefficiently heated homes and car dependency -- it is actually impossible to bring a suburban home in Colorado’s climate within the global per-capita carbon budget of 2-3 T/year, even with a grid run totally on renewables.Tolstrup is certainly right to look to Native modes of living and being as models for sustainability. But it also must be said that the suburban form is itself hopelessly colonialist, in that it depends on industrial capitalism to maintain and propagate itself, with high resource throughput. Even within that capitalist paradigm, suburbs do not generate enough tax base to cover the expense of the public goods they need to function, and end up relying on subsidies from more economically dynamic and sustainable denser areas. But intriguingly, at the southern end of the Rockies we have a fantastic example of how to live at the foot of the Rockies sustainably for a thousand years or more: the Taos Pueblo. That adobe building is not a suburban development of smaller isolated structures; it is unmistakably a three-story multi-family building. The pueblo’s shared walls, along with the desirable thermal properties of thick adobe in high-altitude climates, have reduced the indoor climate-control needs of its inhabitants to a level sustainable by scarce local firewood for ten centuries and counting. It would be a immense gift to future generations to build these sustainable, livable, and beautiful structures by the thousands, but in most suburban areas, building even one of these three-story multi-family buildings would be prohibited by exclusionary zoning.To be clear, where we can’t make suburbs fully sustainable, we should at least make them more sustainable, and within this limited frame Suburbitat is a near-perfect model. Poor people are being driven into many suburbs as they are being excluded from opportunity-rich cities by exclusionary zoning rules, and if we can’t provide them well-designed urbanity, well-designed suburbanity is preferable to the lifeless alternative. But we also need to be clear-minded that “suburbitat” is a suboptimal option, something to be done only in areas where reasonable densification is deeply impractical, or as a temporary stop-gap. True environmentalism requires us to state clearly that moderately dense urban infill needs to be ecological priority #1 -- the ecological crisis that we face is deep enough, and imminent enough, that nothing less than true sustainability is acceptable.robert.a.greer@gmail.com Jim Tolstrup provides history and a replicable game plan for both developers and homeowners to adopt landscapes using native plants and best practices for arid environments. Arid doesn’t have to be synonymous with barren if done right and smart. 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