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Green Treks
Thursday, July 07, 2011
The Waterview Recreation Center in Philadelphia isn't just a place for neighborhood kids to play and exercise. Thanks to green infrastructure initiatives, the center helps protect local streams and rivers by managing stormwater.
Tags: Philadelphia, trees, watersheds, cities, pennsylvania, rainfall, stormwater, permeable, pavement, Waterview
Green Treks
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
At the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, PA, a partnership between management, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Delaware Valley College, and Penn State University to manage storm water runoff is proving to be...
Tags: Garden, penn state, psu, farm show complex, pennsylvania, expo, susquehanna, rivers, basin commission, Chesapeake Bay
Green Treks
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
The words "sustainable house" may conjure images of hippie throw backs living in grass shacks, geodesic domes, or some other dwelling that's wacky and weird.
Tags: sustainability, Water, Building, gardens, pennsylvania, runoff, rain, hippies, houses, pipes
Green Treks
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Better communication is helping communities become more resilient to disasters. The Susquehanna River Basin provides water to 700,000 people, including Philadelphians. See how their government is keeping watch. Watch
Kalu Yala is located in the Tres Brazos valley — a tropical frontier only an hour away from downtown Panama City. (Photo courtesy of Neil Palmer (CIAT)/Wikimedia Commons)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The Kalu Yala Institute, located outside of Panama City, is trying to develop the world’s most eco-friendly modern town by allowing college students to come practice design and promote sustainability.
Tags: education, public health, panama, Campus Sustainability, eco-green living
Thursday, February 18, 2010
It has been hard to escape the amount of coverage dedicated in recent weeks to Vancouver’s curious lack of snow.
Tags: olympics, vancouver olympics, vancouver
(Sage Wylie/George Washington University)
The George Washington University
Monday, October 23, 2017
D.C. organizations partnered to raise awareness about the food injustice that is happening in the nation’s capital with the D.C. Grocery Walk.
Tags: food inequality, food insecurity, food deserts, food desert, dc, Washington DC
Pathoumma Meusch stands before a small herd of cattle after checking on her goats. Meusch Farms LLC produces grass-fed cattle with little environmental impact, she said. (Photo by: Lauren Ulrich, Indiana University Bloomington)
Indiana University
Monday, March 21, 2022
Pathoumma Meusch doesn’t consider herself revolutionary. “I’m just a farmer,” as she says. But the unassuming woman has championed local food in a region dominated by industrial agriculture and redefined what it means to be a Midwestern farmer.