Posted inANIMALS ENVIRONMENT HEALTH
Geese chasing dog
Each day, Lisa Backe, "Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator" of the Goose Squad, LLC travels 100 miles and opens the door to her car at 28 different sites to allow her…
Posted inENVIRONMENT Food and Drink NonProfits
The foraging gourmet and the wild foodie
Lynn Landes, founder of the Wild Foodies of Philadelphia joins with Chef Jeff Miller of the eponymous catering company to forage for wild plants in the fields of the Weavers…
Posted inCurrent Affairs ENVIRONMENT EVENTS
Picnic and paddle to stop the oil trains
Under the watchful eyes of a score of officers from the Philadelphia Police foot and marine patrols, the PA Fish and Game Commission and the US Coast Guard, serious but…
Posted inEducation ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT
Entertaining and teaching at Philly Sci Fest Carnival 2016
A Penn Environment representative demonstrates how planting trees will cool the earth and counter global warming using a lamp, a model house and tree and a temperature reading gun. Video…
Posted inENVIRONMENT Public Safety WORK
Felling a diseased tree
Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation project coordinator Curt Helm oversaw the felling and removal of three large diseased trees at the Allens Lane Art Center. The trees were in…
Posted inANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Bee boys skeptical about flow hives
Bee Boy Ryan Williamson is happy for any technology advancement that raises the profile of beekeeping but has reservations about the so called flow hive with preformed plastic combs. New…
Hog Island Highlights and Humor
Your correspondent volunteered in the kitchen for two weeks this summer at the Audubon Society's nature camps on Hog Island, some skipping stones length off of Bremen, Maine in Muscongus…
Posted inENVIRONMENT NATURE Science
Chasing rainbows and music festivals
When you have three kinds of clouds coming together and catch the "rat's end" of the storm, you have a good chance of catching a rainbow she says. We ran…
Posted inANIMALS ENVIRONMENT NATURE
New composting toilets at Andorra
Elizabeth Fink has been using the new composting toilets near the Wissahickon Environmental Center (formerly Andorra Tree House) at the northwestern edge of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It never smells, she…
Posted inART BUILDINGS ENTERTAINMENT
Expectant parents take a “Waltz in the Woods”
The day before Easter Sunday, Nick Hasselback and his wife, Jenna, who was due to deliver their first child four days later, marveled at Patrick Dougherty's new stick sculpture installation…