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Other local groupsShop 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
- EAC Network: Environmental Advisory Councils are appointed volunteers at work protecting the environment through project implementation, site plan and ordinance review, community education and much, much more. Explore this site to learn about the success of EACs in Pennsylvania, how they operate, where they are, and what you could do to start an EAC in your community. The EAC Network is a project of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council with support from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
- ECLA PA: the Earth Charter Lifeboat Academy of Pennsylvania
- Earthright in Abington
- Gwynedd Green - Official Blog for Lower Gwynedd Township green initiatives
- GreenPV (Perkiomen Valley)
- Lower Merion School District Green Council
- Montgomery County Community College Green Blog
- Montgomery County Conservation District
- Montgomery County Green Party
- Narberth Greens
- One Million Calls for Clean Energy
- Penn State Extension Office , Montgomery County
- Penn Wynne Green
- Phoenixville Green Community
- Sustainable Business Network
- Sustainable Delco
- Sustainable Springfield
- Sustainable Upper Dublin
- Transition Cheltenham
- Transition Ambler/Upper Dublin
- Transition Towns
- Transition Town Media
- Whitpain Residents Organization
Shop locally
- http://www.etsy.com/
- Independent, Locally-Owned Businesses around Philadelphia and suburbs: http://www.sbnphiladelphia.org/marketplace
Eat locally
- Comprehensive Guide to Local Foods from Transition Cheltemham.
- Eat Local Philly
- Buy Fresh Buy Local PA
- CSAs and Local Farms: http://www.localharvest.org/
- Blooming Glen Farm, founded in January 2006, is entering its fifth season of production. It is situated in scenic Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 70 acres of preserved farm land in Hilltown Township.
- Down to Earth Harvest in Kennett Square
- Greensgrow Farms in Philly
- Henry Got Crops is run by Weavers Way staff and students and teachers from Saul High School of Agriculture. The CSA runs for 26 weeks from mid May to mid November. They have several openings.
- Hillside Farm at Elwyn in Media. The farm offers Large and some Medium organic produce shares and does not require their members to give service. A limited number of work-trade opportunities are available. Pick up is Tuesday or Friday and begins in May and lasts for 25 weeks until mid-November.Click here to download the 2011 CSA Agreement which includes pricing and details. For more information, email contact@greenerpartners.org.
- Kimberton CSA in Phoenixville
- Lancaster Farm Fresh: Delivery of CSA shares and buying clubs to area locations.
- Living Hope Farm is a non-profit, community-oriented agricultural farm. Starting in 2010 Living Hope will be transformed from a historic farmstead into a vibrant Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. We are located in Harleysville, PA and have 40 shares available.
- North Star Orchard - organic and IPM practices, fruit and veggie shares.
- Palovchak’s Produce, located on Koeger’s Farm in Doylestown, is a farm offering CSA full and half shares. 215-272-2200, Contact: Gail Palovchak
- Pennypack Farm 685 Mann Road, Horsham, PA 19044
- Red Earth Farm, various pick up locations
- Eat Well Guide: find local, sustainable, organic foods.
- EatWild (grass-fed products)
- Farm To City: Listings of local farmer's markets, CSAs, and buyers clubs that sell organic and local food.
- Food Routes is a national nonprofit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food, the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to our tables.
- Locavores encourages people to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius of home.
- The Longview Center Market in Collegeville
- Montgomery County, PA Extension Office Farmer Market Guide
- The Food Trust
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture: promotes profitable farms that produce healthy food.
- Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
- Philly Cow Share
- Slow Food USA
- Sustainable Table - introduction to the sustainable food movement and the issues surrounding it.
Local Freecycle (freecycle.org)
- Abington
- Ambler
- Collegeville
- Horsham
- King of Prussia
- Norristown
- Not Freecycle per say, but a place to exchange free cardboard boxes: http://www.freecardboardboxes.com/
Save Energy
- American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
- (DSIRE) Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
- Delaware Valley Green Building Council
- EarthAid: Get rewarded for saving energy
- Energy Star
- Energy Star's Appliance Rebate Locator (by zip code)
- Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency
- Keystone HELP Energy Efficiency Loan & Rebate Program
- PA Home Energy
- SensiblyGreen: a WGG member’s blog
- US Department of Energy
- US Green Building Council
- PA Home Heating Equipment Rebate Program (rebates for water heaters, furnaces and boilers)
PA Tax Credits and Rebates http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/ community/grants_loans_tax_ credits/10395 - PECO Rebates and Incentives http://www.
pecosmartideas.com/ programsandrebates/ residential/index.html - Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP): designed to give consumers and businesses information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies
Garden
- The Top 10 Things a Home Gardener Can Do to Save the Planet, by Karrie Hontz, Penn State Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener
- Philly Compost
- Plant and seed exchange: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhillySeedandPlantExchange/
- Plant and seed exchange: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uppergwyneddplantswap/
- Organic Gardening Network: LowerMontcoOrganicGardeners@yahoogroups.com
- Need an expert to answer your gardening questions? http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/garden/ask_gardener.html
- Bloom-N-News: http://montgomery.extension.psu.edu/Horticulture/BloomNews_Archive.html
- Dirt Doctor: Organic Gardening and Living
- Composting from Earth Easy Blog
Rain Garden Plants (Thank you, Steven Saffier from Audobon for the list)
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)
http://www.carbonfees.org: compares the choice between Cap-and-Trade with Carbon Offsets as opposed to the approach of Carbon Fees with Rebates.
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
- Video: Kilowatt Ours. It's a great video regarding electricity use and the things we can all do to use less energy and cleaner, renewable energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSEIhoI8aA
- GRID magazine: first magazine in Philly focusing in Sustainability topics.
- Organic Gardening magazine
- Mother Earth News magazine
- Video: Story of Bottled Water: http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/
- Other Movies to see:
- FLOW - For the love of water - can watch on-line
- The End of Suburbia
- The Next Industrial Revolution
- Crude Impact
- Power of Community- how cuba survived the peak oil crisis
- Poisoned Waters-PBS documentary
- Garden Cycles Bike Tour: Faces from the New Farm -
- Earth 2100 - ABC broadcast: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100/
- The End of The Line
- Who Killed the Electric Car
- A Chemical Reaction (trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTcvO-o8NTA)
- Food, Inc.
- GASLAND
- Tapped
- The Future of Food: http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food
- Two Angry Moms
- Bag It
- A Chemical Reaction
- Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground - can watch on-line
- Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization - Preview
Marcellus Shale information
- www.protectingourwaters.com
- delawareriverkeeper.org,
- drbc.net
- endocrinedisruption.com
- Clean Water Action
- PennEnvironment
- Sierra Club
- PASA list serve: This list is intended to help address
the needs of members in regions affected by this
issue. If you would like to join this discussion
group, you can do so by going to this address: http://groups.yahoo.com/
subscribe/PASAMarcellus - The Facts on Fracking by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea (YouTube Video)
- http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas
- Comminuty Action Forum on Marcellus Shale: http://www.communityactionlancaster.com/
- Part 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?_r=1&hp
- Part 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02gas.html?_r=2&hp\
- Part 3: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/04gas.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&ref=usAmong other things, the articles discuss EPA findings that natural gas drilling wastewater contains radioactive materials at levels ranging from hundreds and even thousands of times higher than what is considered acceptable.
- Map of wells in PA by FrackTrack
- The following list is from GasMain.org:
- Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskills/Upper Delaware Basin
- Citizens Concerned About Natural Gas Drilling Tioga County, PA
- Coalition to Protect New York Central NY
- Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition Putnam, Westchester & NYC
- Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Delaware Basin, NY/PA
- Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition Tompkins County, NY
- Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County Cortland County, NY
- Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition Luzerne County, PA
- Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation
- NE PA Gas Action Northeast Pennsylvania
- NY Residents Against Drilling Broome County, NY
- Otsego 2000 Otsego County, NY
- Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air North, West, & Central PA
- Residents Opposing Unsafe Shale-Gas Extraction Tompkins County, NY
- Responsible Drilling Alliance Lycoming County, PA
- Safe Water Movement NYC
- Schoharie Valley Watch Schoharie County, NY
- Shaleshock Tompkins/Tioga/Schuyler Counties, NY
- Sustainable Otsego Otsego County, NY
- United For Action NYC
- un-naturalgas.org Chenango/Delaware/Otsego Counties... and the world