The Discovery Center

Saturday, March 29, 2025 10:00 AM 2:00 PM Discovery Center (map) Google Calendar ICS Come by to the Discovery Center and learn more about organizations within Strawberry Mansion, and neighboring communities, that are working to improve local environmental issues. Resources given will focus on trash pickups, weatherizing the home, property services, community gardens, utilizing green spaces, recreational programs, etc. Organizations include: Ya Fav Trashman, Fair Amount Food Forest, Strawberry Mansion N.A.C., LIHEAP, Fairmount Park Conservancy, Energy Coordinating Agency, Real Life CDC, Brewerytown Garden, Dept. of Environmental Protection, Clean Air Council, Physicians For Social Responsibility, Audubon Mid-Atlantic. These organizations have resources you can

Ready to help solve Philly’s biggest sustainability challenges? Join Green Philly for “Sustainability in Motion,” an interactive event giving you the chance to collaborate with like-minded individuals and take a dive deep into local issues, from waste reduction to climate change. Facilitated by sustainability leaders and local experts, engage in thoughtful discussions around solutions focused on policy, business and communities that impact our everyday lives. Facilitators include: -EcoWurd -Green Building United -Trash Academy -PA Fibershed -The Energy Co-op -Susquehanna Clean Up/Pick Up This program is a part of Every Voice, Every Vote, a collaborative project managed by The Lenfest Institute

You are invited to the first ever CLIMATE ANXIETY DANCE PARTY, where you are welcome to thrash and groove in all sorts of socially unacceptable ways. The International Panel on Climate Change has told us that we need to hit peak emissions by the year 2025. That’s this year!! Wait, it gets better. We have 5 years left until we need to halve emissions from 2019 levels. Do these facts give you feelings?! Take a moment to notice that emotion contains the word motion. We are moved by our emotions and can also move and transform them by moving our bodies. It’s

Learn how to make a pine needle basket from start to finish with Teri Hislop, master craft artist and clan mother of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania. These baskets can be crafted from foraged pine needles. The art of weaving them has been carried by indigenous people for millennia, passed down from one generation to the next. Weaving is not just a practical activity, but an active meditation that imparts good medicine to the spirt, and is a wonderful way to pass the time through the dark winter months. Tickets include the cost of materials which will be provided. We look forward

Providing Delaware River Basin leaders with practical information for shaping adaptation projects that reduce exposure to climate impacts.Welcome to the Climate Workshop happening at The Discovery Center on Monday, October 28, 2024 at 10:00 AMJoin the Delaware River Basin Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 for a day filled with interactive sessions and expert speakers examining climate change adaptation through the lens of the 3 top climate impacts facing the Delaware River Basin: increased temperature, changes in precipitation patterns, and sea level rise.Attendance at this event is FREE. Box lunches may be available to pre-order and purchase

Bring the whole family! Join The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and Indego on a FREE Indego Ambassador Event Day to explore East Fairmount Park and the Discovery Center!  You will have a chance to explore the parks greens spaces on our Indego e-bikes. Participants will explore the Discovery Center, East Fairmount Park green spaces, a 2.9-mile bike loop, and fun activities with our 2024 Indego Ambassadors and vendors. Activities: Indego Bike tours Bird watching Hiking tours Scavenger hunts Arts and Crafts Take part in an easy-paced 30-45 minute ride with a midway break where participants can drink water, stretch, and enjoy the

Join Green Philly at The Discovery Center to connect with your local watershed and network with sustainability enthusiasts! Dive into a mussel measuring class or take a bird tour of the Strawberry Mansion Reservoir with Audubon Mid-Atlantic. Sign up for your preferred activity upon arrival, so be sure to arrive on time! Introduction to Freshwater Mussels: Get up close with these little cleaners at The Discovery Center. The mussels will be placed throughout the Delaware River Watershed to improve water quality. Bird Tour: Explore the 38-acre Strawberry Mansion Reservoir, a key stop on the Atlantic Flyway for migrating birds, with

Join Bria from Audubon Mid-Atlantic and Stacey from Fairmount Water Works for our monthly freshwater mussel measuring event! Sign up to measure mussels, water chemistry of the reservoir, and connect with other water conservation enthusiasts. This community science data will be used to help guide our mussel propagation program: growing freshwater mussels and placing them within the Delaware River watershed for filtration and cleaner water for all. Registration is required in advance, please fill out the form to sign up. This program is also designed for adult volunteers. Children age 12 and up can participate with an adult. For more

Rebuild is proud to host a space for local diverse vendors and general contractors to network and connect. Join us to expand your capacity!A Rebuild Networking Event Promoting Diversity & Economic InclusionJoin us at the The Discovery Center at 3401 Reservoir Drive in Philadelphia, PA for an exciting in-person networking event!

Efforts to restore mussel beds and the health of the Delaware River watershed with scientists, educators and culture workersThis talk shares and celebrates efforts to restore mussel beds and the health of the Delaware River watershed with scientists, educators and culture workers guiding this work in the city of Philadelphia. This event features a talk from 6-7pm followed by a live biology demonstration.Speakers include: Lance Butler, Senior Scientist-Office of Watersheds Planning & Research Division Philadelphia Water Department, Danielle Kreeger, Ph.D. Senior Science Director for the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE), Maitreyi Roy, Executive Director, Bartram’s Garden and Bria Wimberly,

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 6:00 PM  8:00 PM The Discovery Center (map) Join Audubon Mid-Atlantic and Philadelphia Contemporary as we dive into our passion for clean waters, freshwater mussels and sustainability. Stemming from the new collaborative exhibit created by Jean Shin at the Cherry Street Pier, panel speakers will touch base on the importance of these filter-feeding bivalves and about the history of our mussel nursery site: the Strawberry Mansion Reservoir. Guest speakers include Jean Shin and Keith Russell. "Freshwater is a new commission by the artist Jean Shin that celebrates and pays tribute to the freshwater river mussel, while inviting those

Join us for our monthly freshwater mussel measuring event at the Discovery Center! This community science will help aid our freshwater mussel propagation program and bring us a step closer to cleaner water for birds and for ourselves. For more information, contact Bria Wimberly at bria.wimberly@audubon.org. Click here to learn more about our project to propagate mussels in the Delaware River Watershed.

Join Audubon Mid-Atlantic and Audubon Educator Jose Santiago as we tour our native pollinator gardens! We'll get a behind the scenes tour of the native plant work done on-site at The Discovery Center, learn techniques to bring native plants into your home, and look for the medicinal and traditional purposes of the plants found around Philadelphia. Plants are everywhere in our great city, come find out why Philadelphia is home to so many native (and invasive) plants!