Philadelphia, PA- Join us for a Free Family Day at the American Swedish Historical Museum! In collaboration with FDR Park and the Dandelion Project, we will have family-friendly activities and crafts inside and outside of the Museum to help us take care of the Earth! Programs include paper making and solar printing workshops, a pollinator
MoreIllustration by Abayomi Louard-Moore The Keys to the Future by Jerry Silberman Editor’s note: This is Part Four of a series that concludes this month. In the last three columns we have outlined the dynamics of energy use in our society. We know that the release of huge quantities of solar energy stored in carbon
MoreIllustration by Abayomi Louard-Moore The Energy Bottom Line by Jerry Silberman Editor’s note: This is Part Three of a series that concludes in July. Question: Which kind of energy is the most efficient?The Right Question: How much energy does it take to get energy? The most important aspect of energy that most people have never
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Morestory by Justin Klughillustrations by Nicholas Massarelli Furniture built from mushroom spores? Zero-energy houses? Dreamers and doers at our region’s colleges and universities are committing to a sustainable future where clean air and water, sensible energy use and social entrepreneurship are the norm. Here are six of the many products and services we saw that
MoreIllustration by Corey Brickley Learning to Forget interview by Heather Shayne Blakeslee It’s unlikely that any particular college degree would prepare you to become a “futurologist.” But that’s exactly what polymath Jack Uldrich calls himself. His breathless recitations of game-changing inventions and ideas that entrepreneurs and environmentalists should be on the lookout for run the
MoreIllustration by Nicholas Massarelli Swarthmore students helped spark a national movement toward fossil fuel divestment. But their own school has yet to take action. by Steve Neumann When freshman Kate Aronoff arrived in 2010 on the small, idyllic campus of Swarthmore College, a “Little Ivy” tucked away in the suburbs of Philadelphia, she was already
MoreIllustration by James Olstein Victory or Defeat? by Jerry Silberman Question: How much can I grow in my garden? The Right Question: Do urban gardens have a place in a sustainable food production system? Food provides both all the materials we need to build our bodies and all the energy to run it. Any animal
MoreThrowing It All Away by Heather Shayne Blakeslee American women do 10 more hours of housework per week than their male partners—more than a full workday. Marketers, smartly, continue to target women with messages about convenience and saving time. My sister, a chemical engineer and mother of three, is fully aware of this dynamic. She
MoreIllustration by James Heimer Backyard Biogas by Marilyn Anthony Thirteen-year-old Clayton Young, a home-schooled Berks County teen, is working to design a solution that would enable small-scale biodigesters to provide year-round cooking gas in Syrian refugee camps. But when he first brought the lofty idea to his mother, Jennifer, she was adamantly opposed. “We’re not
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