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Ways to hire a consultant for benchmarking and retrofit implementation are among the categories in which districts can apply for recognition under the Efficient and Healthy Schools program. Join the webinar and learn about applying by Dec 20th, 2024. You can join other schools for recognition of your schools decarbonization efforts. Links provided.
Learning about your ancestral origins can be rewarding, but perhaps also a little overwhelming. What is the best way to approach the questions you have? How do you have confidence you're "doing it right”? This virtual course will assist entry-level and early intermediate genealogists in developing research skills, finding and evaluating historical records, and placing your people into the broader story of history. Successful case studies will walk you through how it’s done and what to expect, while breakout sessions will facilitate discussion and collaboration. Walk away rooted in correct principles and practical strategies for tracing your family history!
Learning about your ancestral origins can be rewarding, but perhaps also a little overwhelming. What is the best way to approach the questions you have? How do you have confidence you're "doing it right”? This virtual course will assist entry-level and early intermediate genealogists in developing research skills, finding and evaluating historical records, and placing your people into the broader story of history. Successful case studies will walk you through how it’s done and what to expect, while breakout sessions will facilitate discussion and collaboration. Walk away rooted in correct principles and practical strategies for tracing your family history!
Learning about your ancestral origins can be rewarding, but perhaps also a little overwhelming. What is the best way to approach the questions you have? How do you have confidence you're "doing it right”? This virtual course will assist entry-level and early intermediate genealogists in developing research skills, finding and evaluating historical records, and placing your people into the broader story of history. Successful case studies will walk you through how it’s done and what to expect, while breakout sessions will facilitate discussion and collaboration. Walk away rooted in correct principles and practical strategies for tracing your family history!
Learning about your ancestral origins can be rewarding, but perhaps also a little overwhelming. What is the best way to approach the questions you have? How do you have confidence you're "doing it right”? This virtual course will assist entry-level and early intermediate genealogists in developing research skills, finding and evaluating historical records, and placing your people into the broader story of history. Successful case studies will walk you through how it’s done and what to expect, while breakout sessions will facilitate discussion and collaboration. Walk away rooted in correct principles and practical strategies for tracing your family history!
March 13 is the opening day for the Schuylkill Center’s Biannual Native Plant Sale! Starting today, trees and shrubs will be available for purchase. Come shop for your favorites: Paw Paw, Hazelnut, Dogwoods and more will be available at our online shop. Buy online, and pick up in person. Support your local pollinators and wildlife by planting native species!
Learn how to protect our toads! Toad Detour protects the local toad population as they migrate to and from their breeding grounds each spring. When the toads emerge from brumation (the reptile version of hibernation) in early spring, hundreds of them cross Port Royal, Hagy’s Mill and other nearby roads to mate in the Roxborough Reservoir or the Schuylkill Center’s ponds. On select nights, when the conditions are just right, Toad Detour volunteers erect barricades and help divert traffic during busy toad crossing evenings, saving hundreds of toads. Sign up to receive a link to the Zoom meeting. Want to
Canada goldenrod, Virginia creeper, and American pokeweed, oh my! These and other native plants like eastern poison ivy are often maligned as worthless weeds because they don’t fit into the popular idea of what a garden plant should be. Join Leah Brooks as she explores how species which may not be suitable for a home garden provide important wildlife benefits and add beauty to the natural landscape. This program takes place online on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. About the Instructor: Leah Brooks is Mt. Cuba’s Public Programs Coordinator. She graduated from the University of Delaware with dual bachelor’s degrees in
Join Climate Action PA and Speaker Brent Walls of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network to discuss the detrimental effects of nonpoint source pollution; particularly stormwater runoff, and how it is affecting the city of Philadelphia and its surrounding regions. The Philadelphia Water Department launched a 25-year initiative in 2011 titled Green City, Clean Waters; this program had the goals of reducing overall stormwater pollution as well as improving city wastewater capacity and quality of treatment centers. We will be diving into this initiative as well as how the requirements are enforced by organizations and agencies. Throughout this event, we will learn
Join SBN for an interactive workshop with Elizabeth Killough, Co-CEO of the UnTours Foundation, on how impact-driven businesses can apply and work with foundations. Impact-driven businesses are often pushed towards traditional bank loans to obtain critical funding for their work. While bank loans are an important source of funding, they often lead to high levels of debt. Loans are not the only answer. In the greater Philadelphia region, there is an extensive and growing network of Foundations that are able to lend to impact-driven businesses. During this workshop, we’ll explore how these foundations operate, why a business’s impact matters to
You should join the American Swedish Historical Museum virtual talk “Sisterhood of the Varjo Dress: Women who wore Marimekko and what it meant to them” by Alexandra Lange and learn beyond the aesthetic elements of Marimekko. In this talk, Lange will offer a history of the artists, writers, and designers who chose Marimekko as their uniform from the 1960s onwards, describing how the dress designs aligned with their cultural politics and expanding opportunities for women. The talk will be held over Zoom and is $10 for ASHM, FASDV, and Fabric Workshop Museum members and $15 for nonmembers.
For over 30 years, the environmental justice movement has been fighting adverse environmental impacts that are disproportionately concentrated in poor neighborhoods and communities of color. An example in Philadelphia is the lack of tree canopy in certain neighborhoods, leading to higher incidences of heat-related illness and death during summer heat waves. What are the environmental justice issues facing Philadelphia neighborhoods and what government and citizen-led initiatives are empowering communities to work toward a more just and sustainable future? We speak with four panelists, Genevieve LaMarr LeMee of Philadelphia’s Environmental Justice Advisory Commission, Jerome Shabazz of Overbrook Environmental Education Center, Maurice
Craft organization CraftNOW and makerspace NextFab have partnered again, welcoming new partner LaserPhilly, to present the second annual Tools of the Trades, a four-day hybrid conference focused on connecting artisans to business resources in Philadelphia and beyond. From March 22nd to 25th, tickets will unlock access to experts, resources, and peers working in the craft and business community. This conference is designed to deliver a variety of programming and materials - lectures, resource directories, and ample opportunities for audience participation - and strives to emphasize approachability, affordability, and a supportive environment where everyone can come together to share knowledge, resources,
Bioluminescence, light created by living organisms, is one of nature’s most incredible creations. We usually see this phenomenon in fireflies, but all around us lies a hidden world of glowing life. Glowing mushrooms dotting the nighttime forest, weaving through the soil and climbing up tree bark, even wood that glows in the dark! Experience the wonders of fungal bioluminescence with educator and mycologist Matt Schink and find out what might be hiding in your own backyard.
The Center’s newest exhibition, Walking the Edge, is an exciting investigation into artistic expressions of the city of Philadelphia’s perimeters and boundaries, as well as other urban landscapes and natural spaces. For this community show, we invited the public to share their creative expressions on borders and edges in nature. Selected submissions are curated into a display, presented both in the Schuylkill Center’s art gallery and online on its website. Hear from curator JJ Tiziou, Director of Environmental Art Kristina Murray, and several artists featured in the exhibition as well as Walk Around Philadelphia participants. Explore how the exhibition promotes
High inflation rates nationwide have made it more difficult for many people to put food on the table. This impact is even greater in areas of our city where stores selling fresh fruits and vegetables are few and far between. Many community organizations throughout Philly are stepping up to transform city green spaces into urban farms and food forests, growing fresh produce, teaching gardening skills, providing nutrition education, and making neighborhoods more sustainable and resilient in the face of economic instability. We talk to community leaders who are harnessing the power of nature to strengthen their neighborhoods: Jasmine Thompson of
Though many may not realize it, the city of Philadelphia offers a very unique ecosystem that is ripe with opportunity for wildlife to flourish. Despite the large human population and cityscape, our urban area is home to a wide variety of critters that have adapted to Philly’s hustle and bustle. Join Interim Director of our Wildlife Clinic, Stephanie Stundon, and Clinic Assistant, Sydney Glisan, in a discussion about cohabitating with wildlife and how to avoid conflict before it arises. Learn how to do your part and live in harmony with the wild animals that are so essential to our environment.
Every year, monarch butterflies– those showy, Halloween-colored beauties– engage in one of nature’s most extraordinary feats, flying to a very few secluded mountain valleys in Mexico. After wintering there, they begin a perilous journey north, taking three, even four generations to return to Pennsylvania. And in the fall, they start over again. How do they accomplish this remarkable feat? Why did this even evolve? Among the most popular butterflies, the monarch is also among the most endangered, their numbers in a steep decline in recent decades– for surprising reasons. The Schuylkill Center’s Mike Weilbacher shares the butterfly’s unique story, weaving
