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,

In just one week the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) will host its annual Best of Greenbuild, Sustainable Design Competition, a half-day conference (plus a pre-conference charrette) featuring the region’s top green building leaders, and up an coming sustainable design talent. Secretary of Delaware’s Department of National Resources and Environmental Control, Collin O’Mara will

Is your business in need of bike parking? University City District (UCD), the community group that seeks to assist resident in making U City a more sustainable neighborhood, can help you out. The group, which has already installed over 100 bike racks throughout U City, has plans to make a bulk purchase of bike racks

Spring has arrived and summer is chasing right behind. It’s the perfect time to take another look and appreciate our region’s waterways in “Drawn to the Water: Artists of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Capture our Region’s Waterways, 1830-Present” open now until December 31, 2011 at the Independence Seaport Museum. This exhibit displays