Trail Off Storywalk

Experience TrailOff’s story by Denise Valentine and walk with the TTF Saturday Walk With Me Group  Part 1: Saturday, Nov. 4th 9:30-11am  Begin at I St. and Ramona Ave. Gateway. The first part of the story extends for 45 minutes to Tabor Rd. and then we will walk back together. Register Here to join. Part

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Trail Off Storywalk

Experience TrailOff’s story by Denise Valentine and walk with the TTF Saturday Walk With Me Group  Part 1: Saturday, Nov. 4th 9:30-11am  Begin at I St. and Ramona Ave. Gateway. The first part of the story extends for 45 minutes to Tabor Rd. and then we will walk back together. Part 2: Saturday, Nov. 11th

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Rep Your River: PEC seeking Delaware River Ambassadors

Image via pecpa.orgThe Delaware River. You get your drinking water from it. You water your plants with it. You may even spend your weekends leisurely sailing on it. Now, it’s time to advocate for it. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is searching for this year’s team of volunteer Delaware River Ambassadors to spread information about

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Urban Naturalist: Mussel Bound

Who’s got the best mussels in philadelphia? Sure, the Saison Dupont-bathed Ghent bivalves at Monk’s Café are divine. But by far, Philadelphia’s most interesting mussels are out in our rivers, buried in the mud.

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Fracking Lesson: Temple brings arts and sciences symposium on natural gas drilling to Philly

Fracking—the controversial natural gas drilling technique is constantly in Philadelphia news. But what do you really know about the issue? In an effort to bring some clarity to what fracking is and how it’s affecting Pennsylvania, Temple Gallery, in conjunction with the Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection is holding a day-long conference today,

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Stepping on the Gas: West Philly dynamo/water activist Iris Marie Bloom leads the local charge against environmentally irresponsible drilling.

Iris Marie Bloom is busy. Seriously busy. The night before we meet near her West Philadelphia home, she was in Warminster, screening a documentary and organizing residents. Three days before, she was at a rally in Harrisburg. As we talk, she occasionally checks the time; she has another interview that morning, and after that, her

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