Center City Philadelphia Community Meeting - Mayor’s Reception Room 202, Philadelphia City Hall - November 30th 2006
Where: Mayor’s Reception Room 202 on the second floor of City Hall. Access to the Mayor’s Reception Room is via the stairs and elevators located at the northeast corner of City Hall.
When: November 30th, 2006.
Time: 7pm
Neighborhoods include: Old City/Society […]

Saw this short article in the Inquirer yesterday. Apparently they were shooting for a 25-30% increase and got 29%. Not too bad. I’m glad they’ve finally discovered that making recycling easier means more people will do it. Full article below.

Northeast recycling effort leads to better compliance
When Philadelphia officials launched a new recycling initiative for 123,000 […]

6:45 – 8:45 p.m., Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Main Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia
19th and Vine Streets, 4th Floor Skyline Room

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Karen Rae, Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will […]

Green Goddess Gazette will be taking a short hiatus so I can bear down on some professional work-related deadlines.Meantime, check out my latest post at WIMN’s Voices.I’ll be back in a few weeks! Thanks for reading.

Environment Meetups > The Philadelphia Environment Meetup Group

Architect and LEED acredited professional, Maki San Miguel Paulson will discuss how incremental change can transform the building industry, using as an example a speculative office building (which earned the coveted Silver Level LEED certificatio…

Philadelphia, PA 19147 - USA

Monday, November 27 at 6:45 PM

Attending: 0

Details: http://environment.meetup.com/228/calendar/5271835/

The way the media ignored this so persistently for so long and now comes out with reports like this is ominous. Things could start to change really quickly:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research […]

from Americas Hometown:
According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, the Commonwealth’s Department of Community and Economic Development (“DCED”) has granted $2.0 million to Philadelphia University’s Engineering and Design Institute and the Pittsburgh-based Green Building Alliance to establish the Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership.

 
Several French businessmen sat around the conference room table brainstorming their next big venture and at the same time making disparaging remarks about the Americans.
Finally one says, “Ah ha! I have it. The Americans are so stupid, I bet we could sell them water …”
Or, how about this one.
A man and a woman are in […]

Pennsylvania is about to take massive action against mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants:According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Mercury from coal-fired power plants - currently responsible for the bulk of all mercury emitted in Pennsylvania - is expected to fall by 90 percent over the next nine years under a plan approved yesterday by a […]

North/Northwest Philadelphia Community Meeting - Morris Estate Recreation Center - November 18th 2006

Start: Nov 18 2006 - 9:30am

End: Nov 18 2006 - 12:00pm

Where: Morris Estate Recreation Center located at 1610 E. Chelten Avenue
When: November 18th 2006
Time: 9:30 am
Neighborhoods include: Cedarbrook/West Oak Lane/East Oak Lane/Olney/Logan/Feltonville
Parking: Located along Chelten Ave. in front of Morris Estate and other surrounding neighborhood streets.
Transit: […]