Blogs about: Philly Eco City

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Neighborhood Bike Works: The Hub of the Bicyle Culture

jayma19 wrote 2 months ago: Find out what Neighborhood Bike Works and the “Bicycle Lifestyle” is all about right her … more →

Tags: Building Community, carbon footprint, Green Resource, Information sharing, Inspiration, Trash Footprint, Video, bicycle, Bicycle Life Style

The simple things the city can do to decrease its carbon footprint

jayma19 wrote 2 months ago: It is amply clear that Michael Nutter, the Mayor of Philadelphia is committed to moving Philadelphia … more →

Tags: carbon footprint, Policy, sustainability, Trash Footprint

Philly Compost launches

jayma19 wrote 3 months ago: Let’s connect these 2 facts together… Methane has 72 times the global warming power of … more →

Tags: Building Community, Composting, Green Enterprise, Green Resource, Information sharing, Inspiration

The Future of the Northwest Philadelphia Urban Forest

jayma19 wrote 3 months ago: A review of Sebastián I. Varela ’s Master’s Thesis on the Northwest Urban Forrest. By Paco Verin, B. … more →

Tags: urban forest, Balance between urban trees native birds humans and loc, Benefits of a Tree planting program, Benefits of increased tree cover, Loss of tree cover, NorthWest Philadelphia urban forest, Sebastián I. Varela

Emily's Bike1 comment

jayma19 wrote 4 months ago: I was a wondering what was this long bloc of plastic that Emily was carrying around while doing her … more →

Tags: carbon footprint, Information sharing, Inspiration

Black is the New Green

jayma19 wrote 6 months ago: Charing A. Ball,  Staff Writer at the Mount Airy TimesExpress and the host of “People, Places … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Information sharing, Video

Green Bucks

jayma19 wrote 6 months ago: Let’s see we are in the worse recession in … decades. Philadelphia City schools are chro … more →

Tags: Our Ecological Disaster, sustainability, Take Action, Green Enterprise, Building Community, Trash Footprint

Calling for a GREEN New Deal

jayma19 wrote 8 months ago: The most amazing thing about this presidential election is the wave, the huge wave of energy that un … more →

Tags: Our Ecological Disaster, sustainability, Solar energy, Take Action, Green Enterprise, carbon footprint, Building Community, Information sharing, Green Deal

Sustainability, Community Building and Playback Theater

jayma19 wrote 8 months ago: On October 12, “Sustainable Mount Airy”, one of the Neighborhood Sustainability Groups … more →

Tags: sustainability, Building Community, Playback Theater, Sustainable Mount Airy

So you want your Condo to go GREEN? 2 comments

jayma19 wrote 9 months ago: A tale of persistence. What do you do when you are a retiring baby boomer, with adult, profess … more →

Tags: Building Community, carbon footprint, Solar energy, solar thermal, Solar water heater, sustainability, Take Action, Community, Condo Go Green

One mile radius living. 3 comments

jayma19 wrote 9 months ago: Inspiration and Source from the New American Dream blog For the past six months, I have been working … more →

Tags: Building Community, carbon footprint, sustainability, experiment, One Mile radius Living

Cool New Magazine on the Philly Eco Scene: "Grid"1 comment

mtairygreen wrote 10 months ago: By Betsy Teutch Check out this great website www.gridphilly.com, which includes a PDF of the first i … more →

Tags: Building Community, Grid, Philly Eco-Scene

First podcast: Torbjorn Lahti, the planner for Sweden's first eco-municipality - speaking in Philadelphia

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: Torbjörn Lahti has been working on building sustainable communities in Sweden for the past 25 years … more →

Tags: Building Community, Podcast, sustainability, sutainability, The Natural Steps, Torbjorn Lahti

A Green Entrepreneur1 comment

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: Reading and learning about TerraCycle and Tom Szaky, its founder is fascinating for me. I think Terr … more →

Tags: Green Enterprise, sustainability, TerraCycle, Tom Szaky

Social Engineering at The High Point Cafe

mtairygreen wrote 1 year ago: Unclear how we ever lived without The High Point Cafe. The High Point Cafe is located in the center … more →

Tags: Building Community

The Eco Friendly Junk Removal3 comments

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: A group of entrepreneurial West Philly young people launched The PedalCoop. The simple brilliant id … more →

Tags: sustainability, bicycle, recycling

Take action on Global Warming: Participate in Earth Hour 2008

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: On Saturday, March 29, from 8 to 9 in the evening local time, hundreds of thousands of lights around … more →

Tags: Take Action

The environmental impact of PhillyCarShare and of CarSharing programs in North America3 comments

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: As part of the Green Affordable Philadelphia conference organized at Philadelphia University by Habi … more →

Tags: sustainability

Nations 4th Largest Solar Power Facility in Bucks County2 comments

jayma19 wrote 1 year ago: FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa., March 19 Today, Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell broke ground in Bucks County for the … more →

Tags: sustainability, Solar energy, substainability


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