Clean Cities and GM to announce arrival of first biofuels station in the region.
WHAT: The City’s first alternative fuels station is now open at Center City Shell Station located at 12th and Vine Streets. It is the only station in the region to offer E85 (ethanol) and B20 (biodiesel) along with conventional […]

Here is Penn Environment’s pre-report on the situation:
Re: Major International Report on Global Warming Out Next Week
Most Definitive Assessment of Global Warming to Date Due Out Next Week
As you have probably heard by now, next Friday (February 2) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body charged with assessing the scientific record […]

Thought the Academy Award–nominated documentary An Inconvenient Truth was too wonkish? Yet still curious or concerned about global warming (as well you should be)? Then your best bet in terms of both information and entertainment may be The Weather Channel’s “Climate Code with Dr. Heidi Cullen.” Now, most people don’t watch TWC unless they’re planning […]

If you could have a conversation with a wild animal, how would it go? That was the organizing question behind a creative collaboration in Pittsburgh recently. The broader goal was to consider how conserving green space and protecting wildlife might be more successful if people, especially children, are better able to connect on a personal level with animals living around them.

Local Pittsburgh artist, Connie Merriman, students and teachers at Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, and the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania collaborated on a fascinating project called "If Animals and Children Could Speak." The endeavor was part of a broader conservation effort, Connie and Tom Merriman’s Community Forest: Hays Woods Project. The collaboration asked fourth and sixth grade students at the school to think creatively about wildlife in Pittsburgh’s urban neighborhoods, and got them thinking about conservation from a new point of view.

PennFuture has been working together with the Merrimans, both artists and fellows with the Carnegie Mellon STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, in an effort to conserve a 635-acre forest in Pittsburgh called Hays Woods. Along with citizens living near the site and organizations including the Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club and the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), we’ve worked to prevent deforestation, strip mining, and elimination of the important headwater streams on the site, and continue to do so. Hays Woods served as a backdrop for the project with the students, as they learned about the sorts of animals that can and do live in urban green spaces there and elsewhere in Pittsburgh.

Listen in on the conversations students imagined they’d have with animals like fox, bears, and birds. Imagine the habitats and habits of our wild neighbors, like the Eastern Screech Owl that attended the exhibit with Audubon’s Gabi Hughes. See through children’s eyes how they discover the importance of being good neighbors to all creatures. And consider how expanding partnerships to include artists, children, and diverse interests can promote more sustainable communities.

To learn more about how you can get involved in saving Hays Woods, or any of PennFuture’s projects, visit our Web site or e-mail us at podcast (at) pennfuture (dot) org.

SustainUS Meetups > SustainUS Philadelphia

This month we will start our personal sustainability workshop series. Since Al Gore’s feature film on global warming, “An Invconvient Truth,” has got the nation stirred up about the problem, we will be learing how to start solving it in our day …

Philadelphia, PA 19139 - USA

Thursday, January 25 at 7:00 PM

Attending: 0

Details: http://sustainus.meetup.com/1/calendar/5351578/

anuary 25 (8:30 am-10:00 am)
CostFree
Organized by Next Great City coalition
www.nextgreatcity.org
Contact: Christine Knapp
knapp@pennfuture.org
215-545-9692

Please join the Next Great City coalition in releasing its report, Next Great City: Philadelphia which outlines 10 immediate, achievable and powerful recommendations to make important improvements to our neighborhoods. Refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:30am
Atwater Kent Museum- Experience Philadelphia […]

On Offsets: I recently found a website, ecofabulous, offering the best discussion of the pros, cons, and how-tos of carbon offsets I’ve seen. Check out the posts on “Ten Facts About Greenhouse Gas Offsets” and “Six Questions to Ask Carbon Offset Organizations.” Interestingly, blogger Zem Joaquin (she’s female) is a design maven.On […]

In this podcast, Sustainable Pittsburgh’s executive director, Court Gould, gives a presentation entitled "Business of Sustainability," demonstrating that every environmental victory grows the economy. Gould details how sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility are becoming the norm among leading U.S. and international corporations.

"Doing well by doing right" is a credo that many businesses are adopting, especially in light of the impacts of global warming. Notable companies that are taking steps to cut their contributions to global warming, while increasing their efficiency and profitability at the same time include: Wal-Mart and La-Z-Boy, both installing numerous solar energy projects at new stores; General Electric that unveiled its Ecomagination campaign in 2006 to cut greenhouse gas emissions; and John Deere that is now investing in wind energy development.

PennFuture recognizes businesses, leaders, and organizations who recognize that clean, renewable energy is a critical piece of sustainable development each year at our Green Power Awards. To learn more about our Cool Pennsylvania Campaign to stop Pennsylvania’s contributions to global warming, visit our campaign online. For more information or to get more involved, please e-mail us at podcast (at) pennfuture (dot) org.

January 18 (6:00 pm-8:30 pm)
CostFree
Organized by Urban Sustainability Forum
www.sustainablephiladelphia.org
Contact: Roland Wall
rwall@acnatsci.org
215-299-1108
The event will be held on January 18th at the Academy of Natural Sciences at 19th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Doors open at 5:30pm, the program starts at 6:30pm.
Speaking at the event will be:

Kathy Lawrence, Director and found of Just Food (New […]