ENVIRONMENT - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

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…

April 21, 2015

ART 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…

April 8, 2015

ANIMALS ART EDUCATION

Hog Island Audubon Camp Journal 2014

Your correspondent volunteered for a week cleaning dishes and bathhouses at the Audubon Society Camp on Hog Island off of Bremen, Maine. He collected an old glass bottle encrusted with…

August 2, 2014

ART ENVIRONMENT HOBBIES

Stitches yarn through wood – signs!

Leah Boelman was so taken with a picture she saw of a car that had been cross stitched that she has developed her own craft of stitching reclaimed wood with…

June 9, 2014

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FAMILY

Landscaper continues family tradition

Fifty years ago, when John Antonucci’s grandfather, Frank, immigrated from Italy and established his masonry business in North Wales, Pa outside Philadelphia, there was just a stop sign outside at…

June 2, 2014

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT HEALTH

Canvasses for clean air

Victoria Carrillo solicits memberships and petition signatures door-to-door in Chestnut Hill for the Clean Air Council of Philadelphia. The long established organization advocates for recyclling, bike trails, fracking restrictions and…

May 21, 2014

ANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Eating energy bars made from crickets

Weavers Way Food Coop has introduced a new line of energy bars - ones made with crickets. On Tuesday, staff members at the Chestnut Hill store sampled Chapul’s Thai Cricket…

February 26, 2014

ENVIRONMENT NATURE NONPROFITS

Dozens clean up Cresheim Creek new parkland

(Above, volunteer Marilou Buffum) Dozens of volunteers showed up on Saturday to help remove invasive plants and debris from newly acquired Philadelphia parkland in Mount Airy. Efforts of the Wissahickon…

December 7, 2013

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD + DRINK

Ploughing new ground at urban farm

Scott Blunk employs a moldboard plow to break new ground at the Henry Got Crops Farm in Roxborough, Philadelphia. Blunk, who worked for the John Deere company at one time,…

November 20, 2013

CHILDREN ENVIRONMENT HOBBIES

Night geocaching at Andorra Natural Area

Scenes from the video featuring Wen-Young and his son Manny of Plymouth Meeting, PA. “That’s what we’re looking for- the waypoints” “It’ll say the gecoache is that way but the…

August 26, 2013