Tap water chic flooded the zeitgeist amid global outcry over an ever-growing tide of plastic litter filling our parks, streets, rivers, and oceans. Locally, we took on skeptics in city where 40 percent say they drink bottled water at home.
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As our official Spokesdog partners, the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary’s social media feeds are filled with cute puppy pics that help highlight the importance of keeping pet waste out of our waterways. Add your “like” by Friday, May 24.
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Call us crazy, but we think we can help beat the 18,000+ pounds collected by volunteers during last year’s big Darby-Cobbs Creek Cleanup. We’ll be leading one of the 38 sites targeting 126 miles of streams on Saturday, April 13th.
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From a cost perspective, rain gardens are a super bargain given their super ability to soak up your property’s stormwater runoff: most participants pay less than $400 for their finished garden’s construction, plants and planting.
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A huge cleanup along the Schuylkill River added an exclamation point to 2018 litter removal efforts and showcased what City partners and volunteers hope to accomplish in 2019.
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All deicers can be harmful to our water supply, the environment, and even pets when overused. So, what to do?
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In a recent talk hosted by the TTF Watershed Partnership, acclaimed author Richard Louv urged Philadelphia parents to make sure their kids are getting enough “Vitamin N”—as in nature.
Thanks to the new Philadelphia Watershed Stewardship program, West Philadelphia youth can get a healthy dose of nature along with valuable life and career skills. There’s even a stipend to sweeten the pot.
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While most Philadelphia students were heading home early due a heat wave this past Tuesday, four 11th grade students from Mariana Bracetti Academy were busy suiting up in full-body chest waders, a necessary piece of gear for the mission at hand: launching a submersible, camera-equipped drone in Frankford Creek.
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From the very beginning, the Fairmount Park system has been an important tool for protecting Philadelphia’s rivers and streams, and to read the history of our park system is to read a story of city planners striving to create natural buffers to protect rivers and streams from industry and development..
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The Philadelphia Water Department joined partners in kicking off major improvements coming to Fairmount Park’s Centennial District during a ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, April 20…
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