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TTF in the News — Again!
TTF has made the news again! Check out this article about our recent Model Neighborhood Van Tour in the Germantown Chronicle. Scroll down to “Innovative Water Management Techniques in NW.” From the article: It’s fall. The leaves are turning. It’s a perfect time for water resource tours. At least that’s what the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford (TTF) Watershed…
Fred Lewis in Grid Magazine
We were so thrilled to discover that the cover story of this month’s Grid magazine features TTF Board Member and friend, Fred Lewis. We’ve written about Fred’s wonderful work with the Senior Environment Corps at Center in the Park here before. You can read the article online here or download the .pdf. Or, you can…
PECO Green Roof Tour
On Tuesday evening, TTF staff attended a tour of PECO’s green roof. The event was hosted by PHS Young Friends, a group designed to connect adults under the age of 40 with a common interest in sustainability and greening in the Philadelphia region. On the tour, we heard about PECO’s stance on sustainability, the various benefits…
Tapped
Check out the trailer for the new documentary, Tapped, which casts a critical eye on the bottled water industry. The film begins with this depressing statement: By the year 2030, two-thirds of the world will be lacking access to clean drinking water. This is a problem every single person will be dealing with regardless of…
Ross Street Article
There’s another great article about the Green City, Clean Waters plans for Ross Street in the Germantown Chronicle. Scroll down to “PWD Unveils Water Runoff Plan for Ross Street.” From the article: The Model Neighborhoods program is the start of PWD’s $1.6 billion, 20-year effort to clean up its troubled combined sewer overflow system and…
After the Rain Tour: The Impact of Rain and New Stormwater Solutions
On Sunday, October 4th, TTF and Fairmount Park were joined by a group of dedicated citizens looking to learn about Best Management Practices for Stormwater Solutions. After a fun, interactive activity demonstrating how a watershed works, we all set off for a tour of local stormwater management projects. Stop 1 was the Awbury Arboretum’s bioswale…
Christopher Swain Video
TTF will be joining forces once again with swimmer/activist Christopher Swain for an e-waste drive on November 21 and 22 at Cedarbrook Middle School (more info here). Christopher is currently swimming 1000 miles of the East Coast to raise awareness for clean water issues. In the days leading up to our e-waste drive, Christopher will…
Coalition for Philadelphia’s Riverfronts, Inaugural Address
Along the beautiful banks of the Schuylkill River, on the evening of October 6th, the Coalition for Philadelphia’s Riverfronts (CPR) made their inaugural address to bikers, joggers, professionals and interested citizens about their goal of creating a greenway that follows the banks of the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers. The goal of the coalition is to…
6300 Block of Ross Street Gets Green Design Plan
This past Saturday, October 3rd, another exciting meeting was held on the 6300 block of Ross Street where the Philadelphia Water Department presented residents with the design for their new green street. Ross Street has a high point in the middle of the block, causing water to cascade down toward both ends of the block…
Must-Read Article Explains the Green City, Clean Waters Plan
Sandy Bauer’s article in last week’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Breaking Ground with a 1.6 Billion Plan to Tame Water (article no longer available), does a fantastic job of explaining the Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Waters Plan. Here at TTF, we are thrilled to be a partner on one of the first blocks to participate…
Renewable Energy Resources
Conventional electricity production has the potential to be harmful to water quality through a variety of processes. Thermal pollution (when heated water is released into aquatic systems) and chemical pollution (chemically altered water from cleaning solutions, coal leaching, etc.) are two possible types of pollution from electric generation plants. Click here for more information. WHAT…
Delaware River Threatened
Please make sure to read this article about the proposed natural gas exploration in the Marcellus Shale and how it could seriously damage our drinking water! From the article: Philadelphians tend to take their abundant, cheap drinking water for granted. However, the quality, quantity, and price tag of clean water in the Delaware River basin,…
Green Life video features Cedarbrook bird habitat
Check it out this short film about the bird habitat we helped create at Cedarbrook Middle School!
Tally from Wall Park Clean-up
We’ve tallied up the data from our clean-up at Wall Park, and it is astonishing to see all that we picked up from the creek and its banks in just a few hours! We collected: 1402 pounds of trash, including: 205 food wrappers/containers 156 plastic bags 152 glass bottles 90 plastic bottles 87 beverage cans…
PLEASE HELP TTF TRANSFORM A VACANT LOT!
TTF is thrilled to announce that we are a finalist for the Tom’s of Maine Corporate Sponsorship program. We are one of 50 national finalists competing for five $20,000 prizes. And WE NEED YOUR HELP! The prizes are entirely determined by an online voting process. Please go here and vote for TTF’s project, “Eyesores to…
International Coastal Cleanup Day at Wall Park
On September 19, 2009 at Wall Park in Cheltenham Township, over 40 residents participated in a stream cleanup event that removed over 1,400 pounds of trash from the Tookany Creek and its banks. The event was a cooperative, volunteer effort by citizens from across the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford watershed. TTF hosted the event as part of International…
Environment Day at Center in the Park
Center in the Park’s Senior Environment Corps hosted a wonderful event on Friday, September 19: their annual Environment Day. TTF was proud to be able to come out and meet with community members and celebrate all of the Senior Environment Corp’s hard work. For those of you who don’t know, the Senior Environment Corps is…
Ross Street Meeting: September 9
On Wednesday, September 9th, the residents of Ross St held a meeting to discuss plans to make their block the first green street in the Awbury/Cliveden Neighborhood. The meeting started out with a brief presentation by Chris Metcalf from Urban Eco Electric. UEE is offering to lease solar panels to residents and reduce their energy…