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#169 June 2023/Environment/Featured/Urban Nature/Water

The decline of the oil industry along the lower Schuylkill River could offer tidal wetlands room for a comeback

A red-bellied turtle basking on a log next to a pocket of wetlands at Point Breeze on the Schuylkill River doesn’t know that it is threatened, legally speaking, or that its home is tiny compared to the once-expansive ecosystem that used to stretch far beyond its current territory. The controversy over a planned warehouse development

May 29, 2023

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#011 February 2010/Environment/Water

Review: Tapped

Screening as part of Ambler Theater’s Pennypack Sustainability Series on February 9. For information and tickets, visit amblertheater.org or call 215-345-7855
In recent years, bottled water has become something to avoid for sustainability-minded consumers.

January 20, 2010

1 min read

#011 February 2010/Environment/Water

Sustainability 101: What Is Stormwater Management?

It’s all about runoff. When precipitation from rain or snowmelt flows over the ground, impervious surfaces like streets and sidewalks keep the water from naturally soaking in, creating stormwater runoff. This can be problematic on several levels. Runoff erodes rivers and streams, and causes flooding.

January 18, 2010

1 min read

#010 December 2009/Climate-Change/Environment

Book Review: Climate Cover-Up

Climate Cover-Up:The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore, Greystone Books, $15It is no accident that about 41 percent of our fellow Americans believe that the seriousness of global warming is being exaggerated. It’s hard to believe that there’s any doubt anymore—it’s like believing that smoking doesn’t cause health problems.

December 1, 2009

1 min read

#010 December 2009/Environment/Urban Nature

Book Review: the Sibley Guide to Trees

The Sibley Guide to Treeswritten and illustrated by David Allen SibleyKnopf, $39.95
Sure, you’re a tree hugger, but do you know who you’re hugging?

December 1, 2009

1 min read

#010 December 2009/Climate-Change/Energy/Environment

Sustainability 101: What is Geothermal Energy?

by Claire Connelly
Each year, as fall comes to an end, Philadelphians brace themselves for another long heating season. Though the weather has been milder in recent years and we’re able to wait a bit longer before cranking up the thermostat, the winter months can still have a devastating effect on our wallets and the environment.

December 1, 2009

1 min read

#009 November 2009/Environment/Urban Nature

Profile: For the Birds

The Audubon Society's Keith Russell tracks migrating birds felled by windowsby Bernard Brown
Keith Russell shows me two white-throated sparrows and an ovenbird, all dead, at 5:30 a.m., when I meet him at 19th and Market. Russell, the Pennsylvania Audubon Society’s Fairmount Park Outreach Coordinator, had found the three migrants just on his walk over from

November 1, 2009

1 min read

#009 November 2009/Climate-Change/Energy/Environment

Energy: US Carbon Emissions Are Down–Now It’s Time to Get to Work

When we look back on 2009, we might realize that this was the year America started on the path to a sustainable future. There are finally a number of positive developments, and every week brings more good news. Carbon emissions are declining in the US—in fact, they’re down 9 percent since 2007! Electricity sales are

November 1, 2009

1 min read

#008 October 2009/Environment/Water

Cover Story: Senior Project

A group of retirees in Germantown take water safety into their own handsby Natalie Hope McDonald
The group of senior citizens dipping test tubes into the Wissahickon Creek has their work cut out for them. As members of the Senior Environment Corps (SEC), a volunteer organization housed at Center in the Park—an active adult community on

October 1, 2009

9 mins read

#008 October 2009/Environment/Water

Feature: High Water

Dare to keep drugs out of your drinking waterby Shaun Bailey
It's an otherwise slow shift at the hospital when, just after 2 p.m., patient John Doe is wheeled into the emergency department. After taking the man's vital signs, residents determine he has suffered a "myocardial infarction"; what doctors call a heart attack. With no time

October 1, 2009

4 mins read

#008 October 2009/Climate-Change/Environment/Events/GridPhilly

Activism: 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action

Ray Anderson will be in Philadelphia this month as the keynote speaker for 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action. What is 350.org? It’s an international campaign founded by American environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben, which focuses on reversing the disastrous path of our earth’s climate through a worldwide Day of Climate Action.

October 1, 2009

1 min read

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