Events
AUGUST EVENTS
August 18: Schuylkill Soundings Presents: Adam Levine – The City’s Hidden Streams
DATE: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia
COST: FREE
CONTACT: Please RSVP to Emilie.Hickerson@phila.gov. For more information, please call 215-685-0723.
August 19: Urban Sustainability Forum Tour! Innovations in Green Infrastructure
Join a guided tour of existing, new, and planned green infrastructure projects in Philadelphia. Green infrastructure attempts to provide a more natural approach to systems typically addressed by existing gray infrastructure; or the pipes, concrete and other engineered products on the average streetscape.
DATE: Thursday, August 19, 2010
TIME: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: This tour will start and finish at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
COST: Tickets for the tour cost $20 and seats are limited to just 35 people. Students and seniors are eligible for a $5 discount. You may also purchase a boxed lunch from Weaver’s Way for $11.50.
CONTACT: Register today! If you have any questions, please contact Christine Knapp at knapp@pennfuture.org
August 25: Stormwater Management Information Session
Join Tony Federici (Senior Ecologist, URS Corporation), Erin Williams (Project Engineer, Stormwater Plan Review and Incentives Program , PWD) and Michael Cooper (Assistant Vice President of Market Development, PIDC) as they discuss stormwater management as it could relate to your property.
DATE: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
TIME: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: Origlio Beverage, 3000 Meetinghouse Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154-1027
CONTACT: Please RSVP to: egabor@pidc-pa.org by August 21, 2010. For more information call: Liz Gabor at (215) 496-8142
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
September 15: Schuylkill Soundings Presents: Howard Neukrug – Green City Clean Waters – One year later
DATE: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia
COST: FREE
CONTACT: Please RSVP to Emilie.Hickerson@phila.gov. For more information, please call 215-685-0723.
September 25: Montgomery County Automotive Tire Collection Event
We will accept for free up to 4 tires per vehicle. Tires with rims will be allowed. No businesses or commercial institutions are allowed to drop off. This event is open to Montgomery County residents only.
DATE: Saturday, September 25, 2010
TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: Upper Dublin Township Municipal Building, 801 Loch Alsh Avenue, Fort Washington, PA 19034
CONTACT: For more information, call the Montgomery County Recycling Hotline at (610) 278-3618
or visit www.montgomerycountyrecycles.org
OCTOBER EVENTS
October 20: Schuylkill Soundings Presents: Erik Haniman and Lance Butler – Rebuilding our Cobbs and Tacony Creeks – an Ecological and Community Vision for the Future
DATE: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia
COST: FREE
CONTACT: Please RSVP to Emilie.Hickerson@phila.gov. For more information, please call 215-685-0723.
NOVEMBER EVENTS
November 17: Schuylkill Soundings Presents: Rachel Vassar, PennFuture – Revitalizing Philadelphia’s Riverfronts
DATE: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia
COST: FREE
CONTACT: Please RSVP to Emilie.Hickerson@phila.gov. For more information, please call 215-685-0723
DECEMBER EVENTS
December 15: Schuylkill Soundings Presents: Kelly Anderson and Paula Conolly – Marcellus Shale and Gas Drilling in PA from a Delaware Watershed perspective
DATE: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia
COST: FREE
CONTACT: Please RSVP to Emilie.Hickerson@phila.gov. For more information, please call 215-685-0723
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