Collective Roots is taking it on the road! We need your help to extend our roots deeper into the community. We need a van to transport our students, volunteers, and staff to sites in the community where we are extending our work, including the development of an exciting new mobile education exhibit called the "Food System Change Roadshow". In alignment with our environmental mission and work, we would like to convert this van to use Bio-Diesel fuel.

Here are a few more reasons why we need wheels:

Deep inside the single leg bone of an 80-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur, scientists have found a hoard of proteins and blood cells providing the first clear biochemical evidence that dinosaurs are indeed the ancestors of modern birds - linked by evolution.

Until now those links had been based mainly on physical evidence - on feathers from dinosaur fossils, on their fossil eggs, on their fossilized birdlike nestlings and on the close resemblance of dinosaurs and birds like the famed "flying dinosaur" called archaeopteryx.

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The sweet scent of the flowering wisteria, the bright layers of the ranuncula flowers, the greenhouse full of leafy starts and the profusion of garden weeds are sure signs that spring is here!  

To prepare our Collective Roots garden beds for spring planting, we have been amending the soil with compost, turning in covercrops, weeding, and taking care of greenhouse seedlings. 

Ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are a quarter of a mile or more away, according to a study of millions of schoolchildren by economists at the University of California and Columbia University.

It seems everyone is getting into gardens. First lady Michelle Obama held a groundbreaking Friday for a White House Kitchen Garden, and California first lady Maria Shriver announced Tuesday that a similar garden would be planted on the Capitol Park grounds in Sacramento.

Shriver's office is still working out details, but the 800-square-foot "demonstration garden" will be on the east side of the Capitol and will be planted in May. It will replace an existing flower bed. "We're going to see how that will work. If it's successful we'll talk about expanding it," said Francisco Castillo, Shriver's spokesman. He said it would not be like the "huge" garden planted at San Francisco's Civic Center last year.