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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

image via press.visitphilly.comThis weekend was jam-packed with events that drew major crowds! PIFA’s street fair, the Broad Street Run, and perhaps most excitingly (because we get to experience it every weekend) the Headhouse Square Farmers Market! The city’s largest and most popular market (at least amongst local restaurateurs and GRID staffers) opened for the season

There is no doubt that we must educate our future generations in the steps they can take to actively care for the environment. Earth Force, an environmental education organization, seeks to do just that. With locations nationwide, the programs engage local youth in hands-on activities that teach important environmental knowledge. As part of the educational

Friday, April 29, 8pm – 11pm
Nic Esposito is hosting a book release party for his newly written, self-published novel, Seeds of Discent and you’re invited! The event will include a reading of the book, whose focal point is on sustainable and natural living in urban settings. Local musicians, Radiant Brains Party will perform and  food

Photo of the Free Library’s green roof via the Mayor’s Office of SustainabilityGreen Roofs for Healthy Cities (CRHC), a national non-profit that supports the green roof industry, has unveiled the results of its 2011 Annual Industry Survey of Corporate Members. The survey found that during 2010, the square footage of green roofs installed in the organization’s

Attention all you Whale Wars fans and sea life enthusiasts! On May 14th, Sea Shepherd Philadelphia and the Comics Connection are hosting a benefit for the East Coast Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the non-profit whose mission it is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughtering of wildlife in the world’s oceans.  The night will be jam

image via fow.orgREMINDER: The Wissahickon Creek needs a spring clean up–all 21 miles of it! This Saturday, April 30, grab some friends and join the Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) and the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) to clean the creek from 9 a.m. to noon.  Both the FOW and WVWA strive to protect the

Greensaw’s crew. Image via greensawdesign.com/blog.htmlTomorrow, Greensaw will become Philly’s first green, employee-owned cooperative and an inauguration ceremony will be held at the design/build firm’s NoLibs woodshop. If you’re not familiar with Greensaw, here’s the low down — The firm specializes in the installation of artchitectural salvage, and uses locally-sourced and reclaimed material to create jaw-dropping,

The Philadelphia Water Department, in collaboration with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, is hosting an awards ceremony to honor the winners of its Project Philadelphia’s Hidden Streams Art Contest tomorrow, Thursday, April 28 from 4 – 6 p.m. For the past decade, the Delaware Estuary has worked to educate thousands of children about environmental