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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The “Anything But Three” East (AB3) event went down at Hudson Ave in Harvey Cedars, LBI, New Jersey on Sunday May 4th. The AB3 events are beach gatherings of alternative board riders and craftsmen where innovative designs and ideas are shared and surfed by all.
Greenlight Surfboards took away 1st prize for the “greenest board” category […]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Paolo Lugari has been called inventor of the world. The story of Gaviotas, a village alchemizing peace and prosperity in a stricken land, will change the way you think.
In 1971, a group of Colombian visionaries and technicians decided to prove they could thrive in one of the most brutal environments imaginable, their country’s […]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, together with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, will host a large public forum on May 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., where a panel of scientists and policy experts will discuss the impacts of “Global Warming in the Delaware Valley.” This free, town hall-style meeting is one […]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Come out for Philadelphia’s largest Earth Day event!
Registration is now open at http://www.cleanair.org/5k2008/index.html
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
1-800-GOT-JUNK? is organizing an electronics recycling drive to mark International Earth Day on Saturday, April 19th, 2008. Our objective is to promote a healthy environment and a healthy community by giving people the opportunity to responsibly dispose of old electronics at no cost.
Meet us at:
- The Metroplex, Chemical & Gallagher Road, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 / […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Philadelphia Urban Food and Fitness Alliance is meeting on April 16, 2008. There will be a chance to meet other participants and enjoy locally grown refreshments from 5:30-6:00 and a meeting from 6:00-8:00. The meeting will be held in the South America Room (2nd Floor) of the International House (3701 Chestnut St). […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
All are welcome to attend a free panel discussion of how the ocean plays a fundamental role in Earth’s climate and how revealing the past behavior of Earth’s climate system provides powerful insight into its future.
The panel features 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medalist in Earth & Environmental Science, Dr. Wallace S. Broecker. Broecker is co-author of […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Web 2.0 auction-based ride-sharing running on Google Maps
http://www.drijo.com
We just put this on the web a couple of days ago because we believe with this system you have many advantages
search and offer ride-sharing (as auctions or fixed price)
search and offer car-pooling (ad-based)
due to Google Maps(TM) use any address as start and destination address in the world
the […]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Philly Officials to Address H20 Quality
By JEFF DONN
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Treading through a morass of revised data, the city’s water officials will attempt to relieve water-quality worries at a City Council hearing over findings of pharmaceutical traces in the local drinking water supply.
The City Council’s committees on public health and the environment were expected Monday […]
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Arjuna believes that consensus processes do the best job of taking politics out of decision making and bringing the whole person/whole project into a participant’s life and work.
In this Workshop You will Learn:
§ The history and basics of the consensus process.
§ How to make consensus […]
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