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Recycled crushed beer bottle pavement? Sounds crazy, but it’s true, and it’s very pretty, check out the photos.

Way prettier than your average black top.

The Morton Arboretum is testing a unique, new porous pavement made of crushed, recycled beer bottles, and other glass, with granite fragments mixed in. The result is what you see pictured above.
The program goes along with the Morton Arboretum decades-long commitment to protecting trees and the environment.
According to Kris Bachtell,Arboretum Director of Collections and Facilities:
“We are constantly looking for more sustainable techniques, systems, and products. This  FilterPave™ porous pavement may be the way of the …read more

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If you’re a Monarch Butterfly fan, LiveMonarch.org is providing free milkweed seeds, and complete planting instructions on their website.
Monarch Butterflies love Milkweed, in fact their life cycle depends on it. The spraying and mowing of fence rows, and side ditches has greatly reduced the number of Milkweed plants on the Monarch’s migration route. You can help by planting a little of their natural habitat in your back yard or meadow.
Just send a self addressed stamped envelope to the address at LiveMonarch.org to get your Milkweed seeds.
Image via sxc.hu

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If you’re looking for more information on how you can celebrate the Earth all year long, check out Tree Hugging Family. They have great green advice all year round.
This month they featured other blogs here at b5media putting their green on for Earth Day. Go check out all the Earthy links in their Earth Day roundup.
We’ve had a couple Earth Day related posts here at Mother Earth’s Garden, but I like to think gardeners celebrate Earth Day every day by getting out there and digging in the dirt.
 
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