Wildflower Walk

Join us for a guided hike through the Wildflower Loop to see some of Philadelphia’s finest spring ephemerals! Together, we will get an up-close opportunity to identify and admire multitudes of spring ephemerials ranging from beautiful Virginia bluebells, dainty spring beauties, robust trilliums, and more. During this guided hike, visitors will learn about spring ephemerals,

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Summer Adventures to Write Home About

Going to camp can help turn the lazy days of summer into stimulating experiences filled with learning and adventure. Not only do these programs present a wonderful chance for kids to try something new, they also implement skills and foster friendships that will last a lifetime.For many kids, camp is one of the first times

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October: Comings & Goings

Four U.S. Cities Join Philadelphia in Funded Sustainability Plan Akron, Chicago, Detroit and Memphis received $40 million in September to fund Reimagining the Civic Commons, an environmental initiative piloted in Philadelphia to demonstrate the positive effects of investment in public spaces. The pilot program, Civic Commons Collective, began in 2014 with an initial $11 million

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Environment: Good Stewards Make Good Neighbors

by Sierra Turner & Grid staff The health of our environment directly impacts the health of our people and our economy. These are just some of the great organizations working across the region to ensure that we’re protecting some of our most valuable assets: healthy air, clean water and neighborhood access to nature. Lend a green thumb

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Freeing bodies and minds for 50 years at the Schuylkill Center

Elementary students at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education get down in the mud during a hike | photo by Rebecca Dhondt   by Justin Klugh  As a child, environmental leader Mike Weilbacher can remember getting lost in the pine woods of Long Island. “That was our home,” he recalls. “We’d go off, two miles away from

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Schuylkill Center to Host Green Town Meeting This Week

Fracking (and how to tax it) has been a major issue in the Pennsylvania governor’s race between incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett and his challenger, Tom Wolf, but what about all the other environmental problems you care about: Clean water? Bicycling infrastructure? Alternative energy? From 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education is hosting

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Get Schooled by Nature

Maybe you’ve been learning how to tell your silver maples from your reds, or you’ve been psyched to see the monarchs starting to flutter by on their way down to Mexico, or you’ve been trying to learn more about those native sparrows on your smartphone bird identification app. Ready to take your knowledge of urban

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Future Weather: Help kick-start the launch of locally-made environmental film

After a world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend, locally filmed Future Weather is hoping to make its way to the big screen. Shot and produced in the Philadelphia area, the independently-made film follows the relationships of three generations of Midwestern women—specifically the abandoned eighth-grader Laudure (Perla Haney-Jardine), whose passion for nature and

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Season for Art: Philly artists showcase eco-themes in current exhibits

Elaine Kurtz, Untitled, 2002, Image via Canary PromotionLast week, we reviewed South Philly artist Shelley Spector’s “Dreck Groove” exhibit on display at Breadboard’s Esther Klein Gallery. The exhibit (February 17 to March 30) features Spector’s use of reclaimed materials to display embroidery representing recent natural disasters. 
But Spector isn’t the only artist showcasing environmentally-centric work this

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