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

Wangari Maathai (image via the Green Belt Movement)The Indigo Arts Gallery in the Crane Arts Building will show a screening of the film, Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, directed and produced by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton. The film tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a woman born in rural Kenya whose simple

It’s the Community Design Collaborative’s 20th Anniversary, and if you haven’t given the design center its birthday present yet, here’s the perfect give and you will receive gift: $10. That’s right, just 10 bucks and you can help the non-profit reach its mid-year fundraising goal of $30,000. With that money the Collaborative, together with local

 In honor of Earth month this year, the Mural Arts Big Picture, an art education program that provides youth ages 10-14 with mural training and visual arts education, has made recycling and trash disposal more exciting to participate in through art. In 2009-2010, the city put out 1,000 super-efficient BigBelly solar-powered compacting trash cans. This

image via blog.eviesays.comWednesday, April 27, 7:30pm
All Things Fermented: The Science of Beer and Cheese: As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, Triumph Brewing Co. (117 Chestnut Street) is hosting an entertaining and scrumptious 2-hour tasting adventure. City Food Tours co-owner Eric Matzke will introduce everyone to seven stellar draughts brewed on-site, plus four sumptuous farmstead

Image by jessiebrown.comUpdate on Saturday’s River March, which we first told you about here.   The event  brought out 300 participantswho spoke out against the damaging environmental effects of fracking. The trek began at the Schuylkill River, traveled to the Delaware River at Penn Treaty Park, and ended with a rally at Love Park. Participants of

Way back in November, we wrote (here) about a Wall Street Journal article titled, “The Rise of the Lazy Locavore.” The piece covered the rise of “urban sharecropping,” where homeowners with backyard land but no gardening skills partner with gifted growers who lacked their own outdoor space. We thought this was a really cool way to

Marcellus Protest on FlickrCrammed into a week already bloated with 4/20 references and Passover and Lenten sacrifices, Earth Day has come to mean little more than an inbox flooded with greenwashed consumer opportunities. Instead of buying ebooks or luxuriating in vegan tasting menus, hit the streets for the Anti-Hydrofracking March from Schuylkill to the Delaware,