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WPTL’s inventory | image via westphillytools.org Welcome newest Gridtern Liz Pacheco to The Griddle. She’s kicking it off right with a post on a community organization perfect for anyone tackling a spring home improvment project! Sometimes the hardest part of starting that home improvement project or planting that backyard garden can be finding the right tools.

Image via delawareriverwaterfrontcorp.comTuesday, May 10, 6:30pm – 8pm
The Greater Philadelphia Round Table will host a panel discussion, Green Country Town, moderated by Drew Becher of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. The panel, featuring the Inquirer’s Inga Saffron and Pete Hoskins of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, will discuss the evolution of William Penn’s vision for the foundation

sustainable19125.org/wordpressIf you haven’t already heard, at the start of May, Sustainable 19125, kicked off its 2011 Walk/Bike/Ride campaign, coinciding with National Bike Month. Sustainable 19125's ultimate goal is to urge city-dwellers to ditch our gas guzzling automobiles and opt for greener modes of transportation. 
Earlier this month, we told you about the opportunity to become a

rendering of the proposed park | image via nakedphilly.comFor more than a decade, the Center City District has been hard at work to enhance the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with lighting, new signage and crosswalks, reconstruction of park space and much more. The ultimate goal is to transform the Parkway into a “pedestrian-friendly cultural campus.” One

May 6th marks First Friday, along with the opening reception for Sustaining Spring, a group exhibition presented by Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction featuring a wonderfully eclectic mix of work from six environmentally-inspired Philadelphia artists. A brief glimpse at the night: Jibe Design is an award-winning architecture firm that creates profound design with

The Food Trust, the organization responsible for bringing us Headhouse Farmers’ Market, is hosting a celebration you surely won’t want to miss. On Thursday, June 9th, come celebrate Philadelphia’s ethnic restaurants and gourmet food trucks at Night Market Philadelphia. The four-hour long night is sponsored by University City District, Science Center, and Philly Beer Week

Last year’s show | image via Christopher Gabello PhotographyJoin SA VA at the Nature Worship Spring Fashion Show to support local fashion and the arrival of spring. The annual community fashion show and street fair will shut down the 1700 block of Sansom Street and unveil SA VA’s spring 2011 line. Local vendors (including GRID)

Cutler, Neukrug, Gajewski, Muller, Sullivan, and Kenney listen on as Mayor Nutter discusses solar array.
On April 25th Mayor Nutter, the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and PWD held the “powering up” ceremony (we first mentioned it here) to celebrate the solar photovoltaic installation at PWD’s S.E. Water Pollution Control Plant. This is an especially notable event

A plant filled "wall bubble" from City Planter.
Tuesday, May 3, 4pm
Make your own recycled paper! Pennypack Farm & Education Center is holding a class where attendees can make their own pulp from recycled materials and create colorful sheets of paper. You can use this as gift wrapping, or a frame for artwork or poems

Collin O'Mara | photo courtesy seu-de.orgThere was a moment during Thursday’s Delaware Valley Green Building Council Best of GreenBuild event when Delaware’s 31-year-old Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources and Environmental Control, Collin O’Mara, dropped his script and got real with his audience.
“There’s so much noise coming from the right,” the tall and boyish O’Mara said, departing the