When 51 days to go Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 1:00pm 1 hr 30 mins
Where Bright Side Baptist Church 515 Hershey Ave, Lancaster , PA 17603, United States
Contact Mike Hudson [email protected]

Nature's Best Hope with Doug Tallamy

Hosted by Bright Side Baptist Church & Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay 

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable.

Choosing the right plants for our landscapes can not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must-take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 106 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 41 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. Tallamy is also a writer, including of the New York Times Best Seller Nature's Best Hope, and the American Horticultural Society's 2022 Book Award winner, The Nature of Oaks, among many others; his other awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, The Garden Club of America and The American Horticultural Association.

 

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Admission is $10.00*

 

Doors open at 12:00 pm. Check-in early and chat with Bright Side's partner organizations--including Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake and Alliance for the Chesapeake--before the presentation.

*Admission goes to Bright Side Baptist to cover the costs of hosting this event; IPC is promoting this event as a community member and partner, but is not a host.