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You've heard the buzz around Passive House, but you're not sure why all the fuss? Is it really that different? Register for the next Zoom here. Held 2nd Friday of every month at noon. PHN Executive Director Ken Levenson unpacks...
Many of our traditional ideas and practices need to be reconsidered to facilitate the swift transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy. We will consider the impact of our built environment, transportation, the natural environment, food, our stuff, disinformation,...
In this interactive workshop, participants will read written works by authors including Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alice Oswald, and Toni Morrison which reflect on the theme of rivers. We will discuss the symbolic and ecological role that rivers play in our...
This presentation will be a comprehensive Natural Gas 101. Health Educator and Building Electrification Campaign Coordinator Linnea Bond will cover health harms from gas from extraction to use, the effect of gas on global warming, a brief history of the...
Bioluminescence, light created by living organisms, is one of nature's most incredible creations. We usually see this phenomenon in fireflies, but all around us lies a hidden world of glowing life. Glowing mushrooms dotting the nighttime forest, weaving through the...
The Center’s newest exhibition, Walking the Edge, is an exciting investigation into artistic expressions of the city of Philadelphia’s perimeters and boundaries, as well as other urban landscapes and natural spaces. For this community show, we invited the public to...
High inflation rates nationwide have made it more difficult for many people to put food on the table. This impact is even greater in areas of our city where stores selling fresh fruits and vegetables are few and far between....
Despite the large human population and cityscape, Philadelphia's urban area is home to a wide variety of critters that have adapted to the city's hustle and bustle. Join our Wildlife Clinic staff, who see injured and orphaned wildlife everyday, for an...
So many environmental groups are working so hard to restore our forests, meadows and wetlands, but climate change, invasive nonnatives, and those darn deer, not to mention new threats like lantern flies, conspire to undo all this hard, necessary work....
Celebrate Earth Day in a lively virtual event featuring special guests, music, poetry, and a countdown of the top 10 environmental movies of all time. Co-hosted by Mike Weilbacher and Aaliyah Green Ross, environmental historian Adam Rose discusses “The Genius...
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