Wolfpig brand wearable art
School art teacher starts t-shirt (wearable art) business featuring images of a wolf and and pig together, "wolfpig," to promote political and social change, explore mythology and express spirituality.
Posted inANIMALS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Periscope viewers aid baby sparrow rescue
At our neighborhood train station my son and I heard lots of frantic chirping then saw a baby bird on the concrete ground. It appeared to have fallen from the…
Plant swappers compete
"You bring a plant or garden-related item and you get an item that you like" explains Diane Olesik who has been coming to the Northwest (Philadelphia) Gardeners Association plant swap…
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…
She wrangles millipedes and beetles
A thousand little legs locomote along the slender hands of an Academy of Natural Sciences educator. Her painted fingernails are brown and shiny just like the six-inch-long and pinky-wide African…
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…
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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…
Posted inENVIRONMENT 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…