Wissahickon Growing Greener

Let's Promote and Educate RESIDENTS about a Sustainable Future for OUR Area 

LINKS

Other local groups
Shop locally
Eat locally
Local Freecycle (freecycle.org)
Save Energy
Garden
Rain Garden Plants
Recycle Just about Anything
Learn About Carbon Footprint
Media links

Marcellus Shale information

Other local groups

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Shop locally

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Eat locally

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Local Freecycle (freecycle.org)

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Save Energy

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Garden

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Rain Garden Plants (Thank you, Steven Saffier from Audobon for the list)

Trees                                               

Red maple (Acer rubrum), Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa), Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), River birch (Betula populifolia)

Shrubs/small trees        

Red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), Arrowwood  (Viburnum dentatum), Nannyberry  (Viburnum lentago), Witherod viburnum (Viburnum cassinoides), Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata), Pussy willow (Salix discolor)

Herbaceous                      

Sweetflag  (Acorus americanus), Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnate), New England Aster   (Astr novae-angliae), Fox sedge  (Carex vulpinoidea), Fringed sedge  (Carex crinita), Turtlehead   (Chleone spp.), Joe-pye Weed (spotted) (Eupatorium maculatum), Swamp sunflower (Helianthus agustifolius), Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor), Soft rush  (Juncus effuses), Cardinal flower  (Lobelia cardinalis), Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), Allegheny monkeyflower   (Mimulus ringens), Beebalm  (Monarda didyma), Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata), Cutleaf coneflower  (Rudbecki laciniata), Arrowhead (Sagittaria spp.), Bur-reed (Sparganium spp. (except emersum)), New York ironweed  (Vernonia noveboracensis)


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Carbon Footprint

http://www.carbonfees.org:  compares the choice between Cap-and-Trade with Carbon Offsets as opposed to the approach of Carbon Fees with Rebates.

10min. video is a summary of the Carbon Fee arguments  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06aYJ8Ja75c

www.350.org  we're at 390 ppm & going up by 2 parts per million per year  this video explains  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkLq8ZODQzM 

Earth Policy Release October 14, 2009  Emissions Drop 9 Percent in Last Two Years http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2009/update83 : During the two years since 2007, US  carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent partly  from the recession, partly from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy. Causes:  stronger automobile fuel-economy standards, higher appliance efficiency standards, and financial incentives supporting the large-scale development of wind, solar, and geothermal energy. (See data at www.earthpolicy.org)

Media links


Marcellus Shale information

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