(oh hi, nice to meet you! Letting dogs learn about other dogs in a natural way, with The Backyard Dog Project).
"To be honest," Ms. Faires said, "it's sort of like a cave in here, because the only natural light comes from the backyard.
Walls of windows with louvered glass slats overlook the expansive backyard, and the natural light bathes the rooms in a wash of green from the soaring coconut palms, fragrant frangipani trees, and a small electric-green rice paddy.
Bolivia is finding out that making the most of the huge natural gas stash in its backyard is not as easy as it looks.
We reached out to the people who live in the jumping off cities and towns for five of the world's top national parks – as ranked by US News and World Report and CNN – to get a sense of what it's really like to have an incredible natural landscape practically in their backyard.
On top of the widespread devastation and tragic losses, there's also a weird sense of bewilderment you get when a huge natural disaster occurs in your backyard.
As the writer Richard Louv has persuasively chronicled, our young people are more aware of threats to the global environment than they are of the natural world in their own backyards.
