Read: Nature’s Best Hope

This book, I can’t recommend enough.
1. It renewed my love for gardening.

2. Shares really compelling numbers about how much land we currently ‘use’ vs how much is actually in conservation and

3. It takes big meaty ecological topics like habitat corridors and habitat fragmentation and makes them not only easy to understand but really, blatantly obvious as to how you can have an impact just by planting a milkweed in your garden, in a pot on a balcony, anywhere - whatever patch of ground you call home, there is a way, and a need, to be a part of a thriving ecosystem. 

4. He makes the connection between food/agriculture and gardens/lawns/plants. I hear a lot of people, even myself at one point, separating the two - agriculture from landscaping and landscapes and gardens and lawns. On the surface they may seem like totally separate things and if you like one you may not be all that interested in the other. But, that is just not true and the way we maintain the land around us, or not, regardless of whether we are planting flowers, lawns or laying down tarmac, is inherently and inextricably linked to agriculture and the food we eat. So foodies and plant geeks, time to unite!

Summary: We need more ecologically functioning and connected landscapes; conservation land is insufficient. Turn your lawn into an ecological corridor. If you don’t have lawn find a patch or a pot and plant some flowers.