Designing Your Home for Maximum Natural Lighting

Air pollution comes from many sources including power plants, factories, cars, trucks, volcanoes, and windblown dust. Air pollutants are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of our national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS).

This qualitative research study was designed to examine the current level of implementation of environmentally sustainable practices at Utah’s ski resort areas and also ascertain future plans.

With proper care, management, and harvesting, backyard beekeeping can provide health, economic, and environmental benefits.

The benefits of using compost as a soil amendment include increasing soil tilth, fertility, water holding capacity, aeration, and drainage.

Beef is part of American culture, so is there a way to make wiser choices when it comes to purchasing beef? The short answer is, yes!

Beneficial insects & other natural enemies identification guide

Best Management Practices Monitoring Guide for Stream Systems provides guidance on establishing a water quality monitoring program that will demonstrate the effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce nonpoint source pollution in stream sy

Now is a great time to take advantage of the shifting focus away from vehicle commuting and delve into a healthier and cheaper mode of transportation: Cycling.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields Program celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2015, it is a good time to reflect on some of the factors that contribute to successful brownfields efforts at the federal, state, and local levels.

This brief guide will help your businesses develop a sustainability goal, understand the behavior changes necessary to meet your goal, provide successful techniques to achieve those behavior changes, and outline the implementation of a successful plan to

Actionable science co-produced in partnership with Indigenous peoples can support Tribal resource management decision-making.

To evaluate the impacts of CSA program and benefits of local foods, this fact sheet provides an overview of the advantages of CSA programs as they relate to supporting economic, social and ecological sustainability.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (USDA FNS) authorizes businesses to accept SNAP benefits, including direct marketing farmers and nonprofit food buying cooperatives operating a CSA.

This fact sheet will help you learn more about the components of an effective crop plan and how to use one in your CSA operation.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) provides a direct connection between local community members and growers, generally through purchasing a weekly “share” of locally grown goods provided by the grower throughout a time frame.

As with all businesses, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) growers may experience legal concerns. This fact sheet will walk growers through certain steps that may be taken to minimize the liability of your CSA operation and manage possible risks.

When you market your community supported agriculture (CSA) operation, you should consider the best communication tools to delivering information to potential and current shareholders, engaging your shareholders, and getting feedback.

CSA members are offered fresh, locally grown goods and an opportunity to support local farms and farmers by investing in a CSA share from a local grower.

This information can help you through the financial process by explaining how to develop a budget, how to price your CSA share with different pricing strategies, and payment policy.

Starting a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operation requires planning and consideration. The method and process of your CSA operation must be determined, as well as how to properly record and finance the operation.

In most landscapes, large amounts of water can be saved without changing the landscape at all. Saving water in an existing landscape usually begins with maintenance.

This packet includes all the information you need to successfully implement, and evaluate Create Farm Fresh Food classes.

By "landscaping for wildlife," we can design a residential yard which attracts and supports native birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

There are many benefits to having more natural light in your home. The most obvious of these are the savings you can achieve with a reduced utility bill.

Ideas on how to reduce your energy consumption using new technologies and conservation practices.

This guide’s steps were compiled during background research for advertising acceptance of SNAP benefits using Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and the Double Up Food Bucks (Double Up) program offered at farmers markets throughout Utah.

This publication examines Utah farmers’ market consumer preferences for organically grown and local fresh produce and their willingness to pay premiums for labeled products by production method and origin.

A Guide for Growers and Extension Educators.

A viable alternative to disposing of unwanted possessions in the trash is to donate them to a freestore to be used by others. If one does not already exist in your area, consider implementing one for the benefit of the community.

Utah is home to more than 20 percent of the 4,000+ named species of wild bees that are native to North America.

Why irrigate only with treated drinking water when you can supplement your irrigation needs through an effective graywater system?

This fact sheet reviews how climate change can affect freshwater fishing in the United States. Climate change can affect the availability and diversity of target species, the environmental and aesthetic quality of fishing sites, as well as the policies us

This fact sheet reviews recent research examining how winter-based outdoor recreation along the North Shore of Lake Superior will be affected by climate change.

This fact sheet provides a set of quick facts and action tools to make educated choices concerning one major purchasing choice for many: meat.

Those growing and producing food within a 100 mile radius from Moab have been included in this guide to help YOU make locally sourced purchasing decisions!

The National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI) serves as an anchor for Extension professionals, researchers, and partners to collaborate on climate-related issues, share resources, discuss barriers and opportunities for advancing climate change progra

Indigenous responses to challenges are strongly based on their values, creativity, and ingenuity. It is not enough just to solve a problem, but to solve it in a way that is consistent with such values as ancestral teachings, moral responsibilities, r

A Guide to Vegetative Propagation of Native Woody Plants in Utah

Permaculture is a design concept for sustainable, food producing landscapes mimicking the diversity and resilience of natural ecosystems

As popular as Utah’s deserts are, they are also very diverse and fragile, and can be highly affected by those that want to spend time there.

Rainwater harvesting is a win-win situation for the environment and homeowner.

Rangelands can be managed to increase soil carbon storage through more equitable distribution of grazing pressure over time and space to reduce forage plant defoliation and increase carbon inputs from standing plants to soils. The overall ability of range

The goal of providing recycling related information is to help individuals and businesses make informed decisions about recycling. This fact sheet will focus on green waste recycling for compost.

The goal of providing recycling related information is to help individuals and businesses make informed decisions about recycling. This fact sheet will focus on paper recycling.

Every year in the United States alone, it is estimated that as a many as 599 million birds are killed because they fly into a glass window; some researchers estimate the number may be as high as 988 million. This is approximately 10 percent of the bird po

This fact sheet describes research conducted at Utah State University that identified factors to improve the success of regenerating aspen in southern Utah.

If you are looking for ways to save money and add creative flair to your daily life, reusing everyday items you are likely to throw away could be the answer!

This fact sheet provides communities and individuals with general urban gardening information about: Common contaminants that can be found in urban soil. Ways to identify contaminants and reduce exposure. Improving soils and growing plants in mildly conta

Researchers at Utah State University are exploring the use of tannin-containing legumes as a method for finishing cattle to address environmental and efficiency concerns associated with the most common current beef production systems.