Environment & Outdoors
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Natural Lands takes action to protect Stoneleigh garden in Villanova
Natural Lands has announced the launch of Save Stoneleigh, an awareness and education campaign aimed at fending off the condemnation of Stoneleigh, a natural garden in Villanova. Perhaps best known for the iconic hare sculpture located near the intersection of Spring Mill and County Line Roads in Villanova, Stoneleigh was the beloved home of the Haas family. Following…
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Wolf Administration Tours Crazy Aaron’s Putty World in Norristown
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell and local officials today visited Crazy Aaron’s Putty World in Norristown, PA to celebrate the remediation, redevelopment, and revitalization of an area brownfield. Crazy Aaron’s Putty World entered DEP’s Land Recycling Program in 2017 and worked quickly to conduct soil sampling and remove historic underground storage tanks…
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Montgomery County Community College celebrating Earth Day with electronics recycling event
In recognition of Earth Day, Montgomery County Community College will be hosting an electronics recycling collection in collaboration with Responsible Recycling Services of Kutztown on Monday, April 16. Students, employees and community members are invited to bring their broken, unwanted and outdated electronics to the Montgomery County Community College’s Sustainability and Innovation Hub building at…
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Norristown firm Simone Collins develops plan for Pottstown hazardous waste site
A Norristown firm has prepared a plan to rehab a park in Pottstown that is now up for a Brownfields designation. Brownfields are usually reserved for former industrial sites, but in this instance Pollock Park, a former scrape yard, is now being considered a hazardous waste site. The borough acquired the park in 1979, and…
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Two Montco Superfund sites ripe for redevelopment
There are plots of land across the country that have been devastated by hazardous waste of one form or another. Sometimes the waste was not disposed of properly, sometimes it was just how a particular product was manufactured at the time. Two such sites in Montgomery County were identified long ago, and now they’re ever…
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PFC cleanup at former Willow Grove air base still being investigated
Military representatives said potential cleanup options at the former NASJRB Willow Grove might not even be presented until late 2018. As a national health study on communities impacted by perfluorinated compound contamination inches toward reality, the question of when environmental clean up of contamination in Bucks and Montgomery counties will begin remains open, writes Kyle…
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Schuylkill River group gets new name, new logo
The Schuylkill River Heritage Area has unveiled a new organizational identity — including a name change the organization says better reflects what it does. Now called Schuylkill River Greenways, the rebranding also includes a revision to the organization’s logo. Executive Director Elaine Schaefer unveiled the new logo during Wednesday night’s annual membership meeting in Pottstown,…
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Renowned Naturalist, Author to Speak at American Birding Expo in Oaks
As the first of two nightly keynote presentations, well-known artist/naturalist/writer Julie Zickefoose will present “Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest” at 7 PM on Friday, Sept. 29, the opening day of the third annual American Birding Expo taking place at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks. A scientist’s relentless curiosity joins the…
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Knowledge@Wharton: Businesses and Local Government Collaborate To Battle Climate Change
President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord has prompted local governments and businesses to work together to protect the environment, according to a staff report from Knowledge@Wharton. The Paris accord was signed by 195 countries in 2015. It aims to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial times.…
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Montco Entrepreneur Uses Patience and Politeness to Lobby for Climate Protection
Montgomery County entrepreneur and Citizen’s Climate Lobby volunteer, Jay Butera, has been hard at work trying to galvanize Members of Congress on climate protection, writes Susan Phillips for State Impact. At first, Butera had no issue getting Democrats to join his bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus. But finding the first Republican turned into a three year…
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Commissioners: Montgomery County Will Continue Climate Efforts
Valerie A. Arkoosh and Kenneth E. Lawrence Jr. – the Chair and Vice Chair, respectively, of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners – said that the county is joining local governments and organizations working to combat climate change. [uam_ad id=”51709″] Advertisement “Montgomery County is joining hundreds of mayors and county officials who are committed to…
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Valley Forge’s Megger Donates Equipment to New Mexico Community College
Valley Forge’s Megger has donated a Digital Low-Resistance Ohmmeter to help wind energy students at Mesalands Community College, writes Lauren Tyler for North American Wind Power. The new DLRO200 Microohmmeter is being used by the school to enhance the curriculum and training in its wind energy technology program. The DLRO200 is a multipurpose piece of…
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Solar Power Brings Electricity and Jobs to the Region
Bryn Mawr is seeing an increase in the use of solar power to power people’s homes, writes Susan Phillips for State Impact. According to PECO, the number of households that are planning to install solar panels on their rooftops more than tripled between 2015 and 2016. Nick DiPatri from Bryn Mawr recently installed solar panels…
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Montco Commissioners Issue Proclamation in Support of Circuit Trails
The Montgomery County Board of Commissioners – including Joseph Gale, Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, and Kenneth Lawrence Jr. – issued a proclamation supporting the Circuit Trails Coalition’s goal of completing 500 miles of trails on the Circuit by 2025. Montgomery County is the second of nine counties in the Circuit Trails region to endorse this effort.…
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Bala Cynwyd Insurance Company Prepares for Third Annual Tree Planting Event
For the third year in a row, Bala Cynwyd’s Philadelphia Insurance Companies is partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 80,000 trees. Fifty PHLY employees traveled to Texas in January to complete the 2016 PHLY 80K Trees campaign. With the help of TreeFolks and Texas Parks & Wildlife, the group planted the final 6,000…
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Trout Season in Pennsylvania to Open in April
Get your bait and fishing poles ready, as more than four million trout are about to become fair game with the trout season in Pennsylvania opening in April, writes Frank Kummer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In anticipation of the season opening, close to 4.2 million adult trout have been placed in 720 streams and lakes…
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PJM Interconnection CEO Talks Power Distribution, Solar and Coal’s Prospects
Considering that a mistake made by Audubon’s PJM Interconnection could result in 65 million people losing electricity, it is no wonder that the company’s chief executive Andrew L. Ott sometimes wishes he could retire as a weather man, writes Jane M. Von Bergen for Philly.com. “You can be wrong 90 percent of the time and…
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King of Prussia Firm Aims to Help Environment by Transforming Biowaste
A King of Prussia company is planning to do its part in protecting the environment by collecting and transforming biowaste into useful materials such as bioplastics, writes Aswin Mannepalli for Philly.com. With the backing of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who invested $14 million in the company in September, Renmatix is already off to a good…
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