Tagged Environment and Nature
Nature in My Backyard
Horticulture with Bartram’s Garden
Nature in My Backyard
Read with a Ranger from the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Photo by Lamar Gore/USFWS
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Throughout the school year Bartram's Garden staff will offer FREE nature programs at the library for children ages 8-13. Space is limited; first come, first served!
David Wallace-Wells | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Please note: This event has been rescheduled from March 24, 2020. In conversation with Dr. Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist at The Franklin Institute and director of all climate change education and outreach programming. A…
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For children ages 8 – 13.
Earth Day Documentary | Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is an award winning documentary. Environmental photographer James Balog embarked on an arctic pilgrimage to gather real-time evidence of global warming in Iceland, for National Geographic. Traveling with a…
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Throughout the school year Bartram's Garden staff will offer FREE nature programs at the library for children ages 8-13. Space is limited; first come, first served!
Nature in My Backyard
Read with a Ranger from the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Photo by Lamar Gore/USFWS
The Inspiring History of Trails in Greater Philadelphia
Trails have been an important part of Greater Philadelphia since ancient times. This illustrated talk explores their fascinating origins, growth and change up to modern times. Our speaker is architect Bob Thomas, involved in trail…
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For children ages 8 – 13.
LEAP into Earth Month
Start Earth Month by exploring renewable energy models and learn how we can help save the planet by living green. This program is designed for school-age children, but all ages are welcome.
Voyages in Print: Show and Tell in the Print and Picture Collection
Explore original prints and poetry featured in Voyages by Road and Sea in the Free Library’s Print and Picture Collection. For free registration, email alames@ rosenbach.org or call 215-7321600 ext. 129. (Email registration…
Rain Check Workshop
Come to this workshop to learn how you can get a free rain barrel from Philadelphia Water! Reduced pricing for downspout planters, rain gardens, depaving, and permeable pavers will also be offered. PWD’s Rain Check program gives…
Nature in My Backyard
Horticulture with Bartram’s Garden
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Throughout the school year Bartram's Garden staff will offer FREE nature programs at the library for children ages 8-13. Space is limited; first come, first served!
Neil Shubin | Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin was a member of the field team that made the 2004 landmark discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old fossil dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals. The…
Nature in My Backyard
Read with a Ranger from the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge Photo by Lamar Gore/USFWS
How to Save Energy In Your Home
PECO's Community Outreach team will be on hand to show you how you can save money and energy by taking advantage of solutions and tools for your home. PECO encourages its customers (us!) to use energy more efficiently, which can…
Friends Speaker Series | The environmental impact of fracking and plastic bags
Listen to evidence of the ways Marcellus shale gas is changing the economics of plastic production and increasing the risks of plastic pollution and climate change. Kelly O'Day recently retired from a career as an…
Eyewitness Nature with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For children ages 8 – 13.
EcoFutures EcoAlternatives
Science Fiction and Fantasy with Environmental Themes
Wild Weather
From global warming and carbon footprints to new weather forecasting technologies and more frequent natural disasters like volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes, typhoons, hurricanes, and more.
Green Living
Green living allows you to become an everyday environmentalist. Go green with these helpful resources including alternative energy, organic cooking, and eco-friendly solutions for your home and garden!
InfoTrac Student Edition *
High school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political…
GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources *
GREENR, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, offers researchers an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies. GREENR provides news, background information, video, commentaries,…
Jenny Offill | Weather
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation , “an effortless-seeming downhill ride that picks up astonishing narrative speed as it goes” ( New York Review of Books ), tells the story of a once heady marriage at its breaking point. It was named…
Elaine Sciolino | The Seine: The River That Made Paris
A former Paris bureau chief and contributing writer for the New York Times , Elaine Sciolino is acclaimed for her “deliciously detailed and smart” ( Vogue ) chronicles of French culture and history. Her books include the bestsellers The…
Sean Brock | South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations
In conversation with author events editor and producer Jason Freeman Praised as “an absolutely transformative figure” by the late Anthony Bourdain, Sean Brock is the founding chef of the Husk restaurant group, which has four locations…
Jonathan Safran Foer | We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Renowned for placing “his reader’s hand on the heart of human experience” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ), Jonathan Safran Foer is the bestselling author of the frenetically irreverent, emotionally urgent novels Everything Is Illuminated ,…
Jacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
In conversation with Nikil Saval, an editor of n+1 and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace A professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, Jacob Shell is the author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons,…
Susan Hockfield | The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
The first woman and the first life scientist to head the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susan Hockfield now serves as the esteemed institution’s President Emerita. A pioneering neuroscientist whose work included the…
Bill McKibben | Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
“The world’s best green journalist” ( Time ), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His many other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy ,…
Barry Lopez | Horizon
Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams , a “rich, abundant, vigorously composed” ( Boston Globe ) meditation on his travels in the barren but beautiful far North. His other work includes Of Wolves and Men , Crow and…
Adam Rutherford | Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature A New Evolutionary History
“A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived delves into the…
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha | What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis—the signature environmental disaster of our time—and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Internationally recognized for her 2015 study…
Eliza Griswold | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
In the New York Times bestselling book The Tenth Parallel , immersive journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years traversing the geographic and ideological fronts in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Islam collide. In I Am the…
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
In conversation with Tracey Matisak A scion of America’s most fabled political dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub…
Mark C. Serreze | Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
A fellow of the American Meteorological Society and director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, geographer Mark C. Serreze is one of the world’s foremost experts on the planet’s cryosphere—Earth’s snow and ice cover—and its…
Richard Powers | The Overstory with William T. Vollmann | No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
A “genuine artist … who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications” ( Esquire ), Richard Powers explores a remarkable range of subject matters in his novels. Among them are The…
Anna Badkhen | Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Community at Sea with Min Jin Lee | Pachinko
With an artist’s eye and a ground-level view of people in extremis across the world, writer Anna Badkhen offers “rich and lucid prose [that] illustrates her journey as vividly as might a series of photographs” ( Christian Science…
Bill McKibben | Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
Watch the video here . Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His myriad other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy, Eaarth , and Oil and…
Walter Isaacson | Leonardo da Vinci
Watch the video here . Released just weeks after the tech guru’s death, Walter Isaacson’s “staggering” ( The New York Times ) portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs instantly became an international bestseller. Isaacson has also penned…
David Grinspoon | Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
Dr. David Grinspoon is the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress. With research focusing on climate evolution and the conditions for life elsewhere in the cosmos, he has consulted on interplanetary space…
Jane Alexander | Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
In conversation with Laura Kovacs Acting legend Jane Alexander has appeared in some of the finest films of the last 50 years, including All the President’s Men , The Great White Hope , Kramer vs Kramer , and The Cider House Rules . Her…
Jennifer Haigh | Heat and Light with Adam Briggle | A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
Jennifer Haigh received the 2003 PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction for her novel Mrs. Kimble . Her other books include the novels The Conditio n, Faith , and the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers , as well as News…
Weather Wiz Kids
One stop for all kinds of weather links, just for kids! For grades 3 and up.
The Weather Channel
From the Weather Channel. Includes your local forecast, stormwatches, ski conditions, flu outbreaks, and more. For 4th grade and up.
The Energy Co-op
A Philadelphia based energy cooperative that uses combined buying power to connect home and business owners with green and sustainable energy sources.
Philly Clean Cities
Promotes and supports the use of alternative fuels -- information on bio-diesel, ethanol, and more.
Philadelphia Honey Festival
The Philadelphia Honey Festival raises awareness about the importance of honey bees to our environment, our food supply and our economy, and to promote urban beekeeping and gardening. The 7th Annual Philadelphia Honey Festival will take…
Philadelphia Beekeepers Association
Givin' a durn about bees since 2009
Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association
Homepage of Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association
Pennsylvania Backyard Beekeepers Association
The homepage of the Pennsylvania Backyard Beekeepers Association
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Nonprofit organization that works with farmers and consumers to promote healthy foods and the ecological well-being of Pennsylvania’s environment -- includes excellent links to other green organizations.
PBS.org-Savage Earth
Just like the Savage Earth series. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, and more. For grades 4 and up.
Natural Disasters
In every place humans live, the possibility of a natural disaster exists. From National Geographic. Grades 4 and up.
National Weather Service
From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. Includes advisories, all kinds of forecasts, and text message signup. For grades 5 and up.
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Coloring books that you can print about weather! For Kindergarten and up. Children may need help with printing.
Montgomery Country Beekeepers' Association
Serving Montgomery, Bucks and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania, the MCBA is an association of hobbyist and professional beekeepers.
Kids Against Global Warming
Do something about global warming. The best things to do to prevent global warming. For grades 2 and up.
Green America
Encourages individuals and businesses to use their purchasing power to create a sustainable society. Information on a variety of topics.
Greater Philadelphia Sustainable Business Network
A nonprofit network of business people working towards sustainability in the community, includes a directory of local "green" businesses.
EPA for kids
From the Environmental Protection Agency, for kids. Climate change, the greenhouse effect, games and more. For grades 3 and up.
EEK! Global warming
Environmental Education for Kids (EEK!) site. All about global warming. For grades 3 and up.
Edheads.org
Weather fun and games for kids! For grades 2 and up.
Honeybees
The third Saturday in August is National Honeybee Day, a day to celebrate this small but vital insect. Philadelphians should be especially proud; the modern beehive, known as the Langstroth hive, was invented in the City of Brotherly…