Ten high school embarked on a weeklong expedition in June throughout the 2,000-square-mile Schuylkill River watershed. | Schuylkill Acts & Impacts: An Expedition to Inspire Watershed Action
On June 7 a group of high school students pushed off into the Schuylkill River on a voyage of environmental discovery. The students came from all five of the Schuylkill Watershed's counties: Schuylkill, Berks,
Since Natural Lands Trust established Green Hills Preserve in 2012, Jim Moffett has installed 14 bluebird boxes. | Photo by Megan Matuzak
Jim Moffett, a Natural Lands Trust volunteer, works to improve Pennsylvania’s nature and wildlife preserves
With a pair of clippers in one hand and a camera resting on his hip, Jim Moffett surveys the land
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Are you passionate about sustainability and looking for a way to get involved? Grid is looking for eco-minded individuals interested in an editorial internship during the fall semester. We are looking for current students or recent graduates with a background in environmental or sustainability issues, strong writing skills and an interest in contributing to Grid's mission and learning more about it. The
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TreePhilly partnered with the Friends of Gorgas Park, the Boy Scouts, and the Roxborough Manayunk Wissahickon Tree Tenders in April to give away 284 trees at Gorgas Park in Roxborough. | Photo by Charles Bouril
Program is Offering Community Yard Tree Giveaway Grants to Groups and Local Businesses
In a bid to help restore Philadelphia’s urban forest, community
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Illustration by James Heimer
A two-century-old stone mill gets a second life generations later
My grandfather, Henry Fischer, was a master miller in Bavaria when he decided at age 20 to immigrate to the U.S. A classic American immigrant story of hard work and new beginnings, he eventually owned his own moving and storage company in Doylestown,
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Fresh peaches, peaches in pies, peach salsa, peach smoothies and canned peaches. All good. | Photos by Emily Teel
Making use of pick-your-own bounty
Once a year, my friend Colleen and I pack ourselves into her Honda for a trip to pick peaches at Mood’s Farm in Mullica Hill, N.J. Once we make it over
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Water, gravity and sand combine to teach Philadelphians about stormwater runoff at the Cobbs Creek Environmental Educational Center. | Photo by Christian Hunold
Cobbs Creek Environmental Education Center opens a new gateway into the park with exhibit
For the longest time, it was a decrepit stables building in an infamous, crime-ridden park that neighbors were afraid to
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The Kensington Community Food Co-op needs 800 members by the end of 2014. | Rendering by MAKE.
Kensington community embraces their nascent food co-op
Stephanie Singer and her husband, Mike, had been interested in joining a food co-op for years, so when she initially heard that the Kensington Community Food Co-op (KCFC) was coming to her neighborhood she
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Philadelphia Urban Creators enact their bold plan to educate, energize, empower and unite
Along 11th Street in North Philadelphia, a short drive from City Hall, are blocks of crumbling rowhomes and crowded public housing apartments, interrupted by the conspicuously new townhomes and condos of Temple University students. Vacant lots abound, edged by rickety fences and rife with
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Green Mountain Energy's Sun Club "flipped the switch" on its largest solar installation in Philadelphia at Greensgrow Farms on Earth Day. | Photos courtesy of newsworksGreen Mountain Energy donates solar panels to community organizations
The large wooden stand high above the heads of customers picking through vegetables at Greensgrow Farms in North Philadelphia does more
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