By Laura Kalmanson

Starting out your own garden? Check out how to beautify your backyard!

http://www.perennials.com/content/top-10-perennials/best-perennials-for-shady-gardens-regular-moisture/

Maybe you already have a good thing going and want to try something new and different to spice up your garden. Look at these crazy plants:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/insanely-cool-conversation-piece-plants-for-your-garden

Feng Shui is all fine and dandy for a regular, run of the mill type of garden, but you want to grow your food! Just a beginner? Look here for easy startups:

http://eartheasy.com/grow_backyard_vegetable_garden.html

Beyond a beginner? Want to help build a sustainable earth? Check out aquaponics, it’s awesome

http://greengrotech.com/what-is-aquaponics-and-how-does-it-work/

http://aquaponics.com/page/build-a-mini-aquaponic-system

Speaking of sustainability, the current consumption of earth’s resources is not sustainable. Learn about it here:

http://www.culturechange.org/issue19/sustainconsum.htm

Can you talk the talk?

http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/basicinfo.htm

http://www.wri.org/blog/2013/03/new-language-sustainability-risk-and-resilience

There are many ways you can be sustainable!

At work: http://www.universityofvermontonline.com/resources/corporate-sustainability/10-ways-of-making-sustainable-changes-at-work-for-earth-day-and-beyond/#.VH1_E75hN0t

At home: http://www.context.org/iclib/ic35/30ways/

Even in college: http://www.topuniversities.com/blog/8-tips-more-sustainable-campus

One of the best ways you can be sustainable is to encourage carbon fixing with a healthy garden. Tune in to AM 760 to hear about gardening here in San Diego.

http://www.760kfmb.com/category/28006/home-garden

At San Diego State, you can be sustainable throughout campus! Check out the map:

http://sustainablemap.sdsu.edu/dus/sustainablemap/

Before you go, here’s a fun new fact: Plants talk to each other! (Yes, linguists, we know it is not true language)

http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/new-plant-language-discovered-140814.htm