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  • The Future of Local Clean Energy: Community-funded, Community-owned

    The Future of Local Clean Energy: Community-funded, Community-owned
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    Your Money, Your Power: Finance Local Solar in PA Ready to see your investments make a tangible difference in your backyard? While big developers overlook smaller projects, the Clean Energy Co-op is stepping in to bridge the gap. We're harnessing the power of many small investors working together to bring renewable energy projects to fruition. We empower Pennsylvania residents to collectively fund solar installations for the organizations that anchor our communities—nonprofits, co-ops, and local community-beneficial businesses. Proven Success: 8 completed projects and counting. Big Momentum: We are currently funding our largest installation to date. Community First: 100% volunteer-run and member-owned.

    Free

  • The Future of Local Clean Energy: Community-funded, Community-owned

    The Future of Local Clean Energy: Community-funded, Community-owned
    Zoom, Online Only

    Your Money, Your Power: Finance Local Solar in PA Ready to see your investments make a tangible difference in your backyard? While big developers overlook smaller projects, the Clean Energy Co-op is stepping in to bridge the gap. We're harnessing the power of many small investors working together to bring renewable energy projects to fruition. We empower Pennsylvania residents to collectively fund solar installations for the organizations that anchor our communities—nonprofits, co-ops, and local community-beneficial businesses. Proven Success: 8 completed projects and counting. Big Momentum: We are currently funding our largest installation to date. Community First: 100% volunteer-run and member-owned.

    Free

  • Boneyard Bookworms: January Discussion

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    All are welcome to join Laurel Hill’s book club which reads and discusses a wide range of genres and topics, from historical nonfiction to contemporary novels, from science and medicine to memoir and humor. We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Joe Lex, the author and one of our fabulous tour guides, to lead the discussion of his newly released book, “All Bones Considered: 52 Laurel Hill Women.” Meet 52 trailblazing women who shaped history – and are buried at Laurel Hill Cemeteries. From America’s first prima ballerina to the founder of Mother’s Day, the first Black woman to earn a PhD

  • Climate-Proofing Plants for a Changing World

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    April 22, 2025 • 12 PM ET • Virtual Join us for a virtual armchair conversation on groundbreaking advances in breeding plants to thrive in a warming world. This event features William Cullina, The F. Otto Haas Executive Director at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens, and Dr. Doris Wagner, DiMaura Professor of Biology at Penn Arts & Sciences. Dr. Wagner is also the inaugural director of the Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center (Plant ARC), a new initiative dedicated to sustainable, plant-based solutions for addressing climate change. They will engage in a captivating discussion about Plant ARC’s pioneering research on cellular

  • GREEN SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN

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    We're a group of students, parents, teachers, and others aiming to transition schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania to 100% clean energy. Please sign up to learn more and/or express your support for getting fossil fuels out of our schools! ​ Register HERE https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y7R87gTqS7SHVh84AFE89A#/registration

    Free

  • Expand Renewable Energy in our Community: Clean Energy Co-op

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    Learn how you can help expand renewable energy in our community. The Clean Energy Co-op takes the lead by expanding renewable energy through a collective investment model. A new solar installation is planned for the roof of Weavers Way Co-op in Germantown by using this collective investment model. Learn how you can make this project a reality.

  • Museum for Art in Wood presents Seeing Through Space Artist Talk with Nadia Kaabi-Linke

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    Join the Museum for Art in Wood for an engaging artist talk with artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke, whose work is included in the current exhibition The Mashrabiya Project – Seeing Through Space. Kaabi-Linke is the fourth featured artist to speak in the exhibition’s ongoing lecture series. In this virtual talk, Kaabi-Linke will share her artistic journey and her connection to mashrabiya in the context of architecture, art, craft, and community. Nadia Kaabi-Linke was born Tunis, Tunisia, and raised in Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Tunis, in 1999, and earned a Ph.D. at

    Free

  • Museum for Art in Wood presents How it Started and How it’s Going: Collector talk with Suzanne Perrault

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    Join us for How it Started and How it’s Going, a speaker series with collectors. For this session, we’ll get a different perspective on collecting by speaking with Suzanne Perrault a partner at Rago/Wright Auctions. We’ll learn about how she got started in the industry and why; we’ll hear what attracts them to certain pieces and see some of their favorite works along with pieces for an upcoming auction. We will also discuss what makes someone a collector of art, how to start your own collection, and how to become more knowledgeable about the auction world.

    Free

  • Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

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    An online class with Dr. Toby Musgrave, Garden Historian, Designer, Author. Presented by the Morris Arboretum & Gardens. The perception of beauty is subjective and what one person may think beautiful, another may not. This is as true for garden art as for any other art form and in this lecture, plants and gardens historian Toby Musgrave will present and explore a selection of garden styles from across the world and down the centuries that have drawn differing opinions as to their beauty … or not, and delve into the whys and wherefores of the differences in opinion. Dr. Musgrave

    $20 – $25

  • Queer Mycology

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    This virtual talk by mycologist Patty Kaishian approaches the field of mycology through a theoretical framework rooted in queer and feminist theories, as well as philosophy of science and traditional ecological knowledge. The goal of this work is to challenge, push, and explore central tenets of institutional science, and to socially and historically situate current research dilemmas in mycology. Dr. Patricia Kaishian’s research focuses on fungal taxonomy, diversity, evolution, symbiosis, and ecology, particularly of the less-studied fungal groups, such as the insect-associated Laboulbeniales. She is a co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists, which seeks to jointly protect Armenian

    $20

  • Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 7th Edition

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    The “Cities Identity through Arts and Architecture” conference envelops topics concerning the conservation of cities’ identities through arts and architecture. It addresses multiple topics of contention concerning cities’ heritage and conservation efforts, such as the influence of artistic expression and creativity on cities’ safety, traditional artistic techniques & architecture, historical eras, and their construction practices, and sustainable preservation practices. The conference additionally highlights a special issue that deliberates upon Andalusian art and architecture, and its everlasting influence on contemporary architectural practices in the Mediterranean region, through Moorish and Arab constructions.

    $400

  • SuperCellular: Carolyn Healy & John Phillips

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    SuperCellular A new site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips January 30 - March 25, 2023 Opening Reception: February 2, 5-7 pm GLASSBORO, NJ—Rowan University Art Gallery is pleased to present SuperCellular, a new collaborative site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips. Debuting on January 30, the exhibition will be on view through March 25, 2023 with an opening reception and artist’s talk on February 2, from 5-7 pm. The talk begins at 5:30 pm. SuperCellular combines sculpture, light, sound, and moving imagery as a reflection of the astonishing and

    free

  • SuperCellular: Carolyn Healy & John Phillips

    Zoom, Online Only

    SuperCellular A new site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips January 30 - March 25, 2023 Opening Reception: February 2, 5-7 pm GLASSBORO, NJ—Rowan University Art Gallery is pleased to present SuperCellular, a new collaborative site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips. Debuting on January 30, the exhibition will be on view through March 25, 2023 with an opening reception and artist’s talk on February 2, from 5-7 pm. The talk begins at 5:30 pm. SuperCellular combines sculpture, light, sound, and moving imagery as a reflection of the astonishing and

    free

  • SuperCellular: Carolyn Healy & John Phillips

    Zoom, Online Only

    SuperCellular A new site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips January 30 - March 25, 2023 Opening Reception: February 2, 5-7 pm GLASSBORO, NJ—Rowan University Art Gallery is pleased to present SuperCellular, a new collaborative site-specific immersive art gallery experience by Carolyn Healy and John JH Phillips. Debuting on January 30, the exhibition will be on view through March 25, 2023 with an opening reception and artist’s talk on February 2, from 5-7 pm. The talk begins at 5:30 pm. SuperCellular combines sculpture, light, sound, and moving imagery as a reflection of the astonishing and

    free

  • Philly Talks Trash- From Packaging to Pollution

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    It’s the annual season for gift giving and that time of year when the U.S. sees an almost 25% increase in waste. This is a bonanza for the packaging industry, a significant boost in demand for plastic products, and further rationale for the fossil fuel industry to continue fracking. Join us virtually on Thursday, December 15, 6:30 - 8:00pm, for our next Philly Talks Trash Program, “From Packaging to Pollution,” a discussion led by experts who will provide a detailed look at how the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the huge rise in plastic manufacturing. We’ll discuss how this

    Free