Tagged Environment & Nature
Eyewitness Nature! with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For school aged children up to 13 years old. For additional information, please call the librarian at 215-685-1899. …
Make and Take: Hand Salve Workshop
In this workshop you will learn how to make your own moisturizing salve at home using all natural ingredients like shea butter and beeswax as well as easy to grow at home herbs! You will leave with a salve sample made in the group as a…
Incense Making Workshop
Urbanstead will teach you how to transform your herbs into incense for your home. Participants will learn how to turn all natural ingredients and oils into hand-rolled cone and hand dipped stick incense.
Pandora's Garden: Nature Storytime
Hear nature-based songs and stories that inspire us to play outside. A scavenger hunt will take us outside onto the grounds of the library where we will explore and play with natural materials. For children ages 8 months to…
Grow Your Own Microgreens and Sprouts!
Urbanstead will be hosting a workshop where you will learn how to grow microgreens in your own home! Utilizing spaces as small as a windowsill, you’ll be provided the tools to have your own tiny garden of these nutritious snacks…
Living Safely with Lead
Lead is ubiquitous, found in soil and dust, paint, drinking water from lead plumbing, and consumer products. Learn to identify and live safely with lead poisoning hazards in your home and community. This workshop is a program of 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…
Make and Take: Herbal Incense Cones & Smudges
Transform your herbs into incense for your home! In this hands on workshop, participants will learn how to make incense from all natural ingredients and oils. Participants will take home their own incense from this workshop. This…
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
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…
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
Macramé Plant Hanger Workshop
Join Urbanstead for a Macramé Plant Hanger workshop. Learn to make your own natural plant hangers in this beginner class. No prior experience is needed. In this one and a half hour workshop, you will learn: How to begin a…
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
Eyewitness Nature! with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For school aged children up to 13 years old. For additional information, please call the librarian at 215-685-1899. …
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
Hand Salve Making
In this one-hour workshop you will learn how to make your own moisturizing salve at home using all natural ingredients like shea butter and beeswax as well as easy to grow at home herbs! You will leave with a salve sample made in the…
Houseplant workshop
A workshop for the novice and houseplant veteran alike, covering topics such as lighting, the benefits of houseplants, and everything in between. There will also be tips for an incredibly easy and fun DIY project. Bring questions and…
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
Recycling Realities
This 8-week course will survey current recycling technologies and policies, with an emphasis on the recovery of value from municipal solid wastes. In addition to addressing the recycling of glass, paper products, food wastes, and…
Eyewitness Nature! with Bartram’s Garden
Get up close and personal with nature in these educational workshops led by Bartram’s Garden staff. For school aged children up to 13 years old. For additional information, please call the librarian at 215-685-1899. …
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,…
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…