We are excited to work once again with Rebecca Schultz as well as Cheltenham Center for the Arts on the vastly creative and community-uniting project, Mapping Our Watershed. Through six […]
Last month, TTF met with SEPTA, HDR Engineering, Inc., and Abington Township representatives to review and tour the construction site and plans for the Jenkintown Electric Power Project, a new […]
Cheltenham Township recently hosted two well-attended educational meetings as part of its process for reviewing a Riparian Corridor Ordinance. TTF’s Executive Director, Julie Slavet, expressed TTF’s strong support in favor […]
Last week, TTF, in partnership with the Cheltenham EAC, hosted “Your Watershed is Your Home: An Introduction to Watersheds & Stormwater Management Tools” at the Glenside Library. Those who attended […]
Welcome, Ariel! TTF’s new intern, Ariel Murphy, jumped right in and got her feet wet at a freshwater mussel surveying event in Tacony Creek Park. Ariel joins us from Arcadia […]
Who is that in the Tookany Creek? These happy volunteers include Glenside residents, Arcadia University Biology Department members, and Drexel University students working at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center! […]
Recently, volunteers met at Arcadia University to survey a section of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford creek for freshwater mussels. While we didn’t find any freshwater mussels, we did find oyster shells, tennis […]
A torrential downpour arrived just in time to test the riparian buffer during the ribbon cutting ceremony at Glenside Elementary School on May 24th. Even indoors, the ceremony was a […]
Did you know that freshwater mussels are a critical component of healthy streams? Here at TTF, we’re all about clean water and healthy streams, so we’re teaming up with the […]
In preparation for the grand ribbon-cutting ceremony at Glenside Elementary School on May 24, TTF organized a planting in partnership with members of the Glenside Parent Teacher Organization to add […]
TTF’s Executive Director Julie Slavet spoke to a group of enthusiastic Arcadia students in Social Action and Social Change about developing relationships with their elected officials. Drawing on her experience […]
Jerry Silberman from Protecting Our Waters spoke to a group of students at Arcadia University about hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking). Students had recently watched Gasland, a film covering […]
TTF recently led fifteen Arcadia University students in marking over twenty storm drains in Wyncote in Cheltenham Township. These storm drain markers serve to remind people that our storm drains […]
TTF Stewards Terri and Patty We met Terri and Patty when we contacted them about the raffle we ran as part of our outreach to Cheltenham E-Waste Drive (November 19) […]
TTF joined Cedarbrook Middle School students and teachers, Earth Force, and NAM Planning & Design, LLC three days last week to install a riparian buffer on the school grounds. The […]
Yesterday, TTF hosted two really exciting restoration events simultaneously! In Cheltenham Township, Steph spent the day with Cedarbrook Middle School teachers, over 100 seventh graders, and Nancy Minich from NAM […]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the first two Good Business Practices for Clean Water workshops! Residents and business owners in attendance learned about watersheds, stormwater runoff, water pollution, […]
Great news! Our long-time partner Cedarbrook Middle School is the World Water Monitoring Day 2010 Water Champion Award Winner for North America! We have worked with Cedarbrook on many environmental […]
With the incredible swimmer/activist Christopher Swain and a fantastic crew of committed volunteers, TTF collected 8,337 pounds of electronic waste at Cedarbrook Middle School last weekend in spite of fierce […]
We would like to thank the awesome volunteers who came out last Saturday to help us clean the banks of the Tookany Creek in Wall Park as part of Ocean […]
TTF recently helped with planting an Audubon-certified native bird habitat at Wyncote Elementary School. You may remember the last time we assisted with a native bird habitat at Cedarbrook Middle […]
Many thanks to all the wonderful, dedicated volunteers who came out to help clean up the creek behind Cedarbrook Middle School this weekend! More pictures will be posted soon on […]
In Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, 21.57 tons (43,149 pounds) of trash and litter was removed from local waterways and the Delaware Estuary in a coordinated effort by […]
Thank you SO much to all of our amazing volunteers and to everyone who came out and ethically recycled their e-waste this past weekend! During the drive the parking lot […]
