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Videos Show How Pennsylvanians Protect The Environment In Their Own Words
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Online videos from all around Pennsylvania feature watershed, business, local government and nonprofit leaders talking about how they work to restore and protect the Commonwealth's environment in a powerful form-- their own words. Here are just a few of those featured in 2009--
The Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Program has a new online education program featuring Cosmo the flying squirrel and Terra the river otter to help teach students about biodiversity, invasive species, endangered species and climate change.
In the newest installment of the Western PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation Video Diaries,we visit the Somerset Watershed Summit and go on a tour of the Casselman River watershed in southern Somerset County to learn about water quality projects going on there.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Botanic Garden produced an on-line video, “Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In,” that highlights green techniques such as rain gardens, green roofs and rain barrels to help manage stormwater runoff.
Keith Russell, Audubon PA Ornithologist, talks about the just completed 109th Christmas Bird Count in Philadelphia.
Julie Stone from the Department of Environmental Protection talks about the "Feel the Power of Energy Conservation" exhibit at the just completed Pennsylvania Farm Show with a reporter from the York Dispatch.
The Village at Springbrook Farms development in Lebanon County is a good example of what is possible when a township that takes a long term view works with a developer willing to innovate.
The Earth Friend Awards honor friends, neighbors, schools, and organizations improving the environment and greening the Pittsburgh Region. The awards are presented by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and WTAE-TV Channel 4 and supported by Sony.
In this video, Franklin & Marshall College professors Robert C. Walter, Ph.D. and Dorothy J. Merritts, Ph.D. talk about the publication of an article in the journal Science that outlines the contributions thousands of 17th to 19th Century mill dams have made to causing legacy sediment and nutrient pollution in today’s streams with New York Times Reporter Cornelia Dean.
The first episode of the National Science Foundation's "To What Degree? What Science is Telling Us About Climate Change" television series will feature Penn State climate researchers Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences and Michael E. Mann, associate professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center.
Five new online videos are now online from the Penn State Extension Service to help the more than 1 million private water well owners properly maintain and identify well problems.
Wildlands Conservancy received a $5,000 grant from IronPigs Charities to fund a week-long “Bats to Bats” program designed to create an appreciation for the natural world and introduce 120 inner-city children to close to home environmental pursuits.
Each year the Game Commission’s Middle Creek and Pymatuning Wildlife Management Areas host hundreds of thousands of migrating geese, swans and ducks.
In February, the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Capital Resource Conservation and Development Area Council jointly hosted two one-day seminars on nutrient credit and carbon trading in State College and Lancaster.
As demand grows for Pennsylvania's water resources, the Commonwealth is offering comprehensive recommendations to help policymakers balance the demands of competing interests while protecting the quality and supply of water for residents and businesses, Environmental Protection acting Secretary John Hanger said this week in announcing the new State Water Plan.
At their conference this past weekend, the PA Association of Environmental Educators recognized outstanding contributions by individuals, programs and businesses to the field of environmental education.
The StormwaterPA website this week unveiled a new blog designed to share information about innovative ways to help reduce and manage stormwater.
The Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee heard how critical restoring Department of Agriculture funding is to cleaning up Pennsylvania's watersheds and the Chesapeake Bay at a hearing on the agency'sbudget this week.
On April 4 nearly 45 volunteers, along with local sponsors, PennDOT and even 5 inmates from the Beaver County jail, helped clean up a section of Beaver Creek in and around Lock 57 Park in Ohioville.
For more than 30 years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's environmental education programs have been a cornerstone of CBF's efforts to improve water quality and the Bay's health.
With its 10th annual State of the Bay report continuing to show no significant progress, Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William C. Baker this week challenged the federal Environmental Protection Agency to use its regulatory authority to take aggressive new action to reduce pollution.
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and 185 attendees this week celebrated the accomplishments of the 2009 winners of the Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence in Harrisburg.
The Independence Conservancy in Southwest PA sponsors a series of waste tire collection events each year that properly disposes of thousands of tires covering 25 communities in four counties.
Dave Miller, Advanced Solar Industries of Lancaster, Pa, talks about the solar and wind turbine installation his company recently made on the Jim Hess Farm near Palmyra, Pa.
Members and partners of the Tri-County Conewago Creek Association and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation organized a stream buffer planting last Saturday on the Jim Hess Farm near Palmyra, Pa.
Andy Gavin, Chief of the Restoration Section at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, talks about the installation of a rain garden project at the State Police Headquarters Building in Harrisburg.
Jo Ellen Litz, President of the Swatara Creek Watershed Association and Lebanon County Commissioner, provided this account of the 2009 Swatara Creek Sojourn and Cleanup.
Andy McAllister, Watershed Coordinator with the Western Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, not only does a great job working with watershed groups in Western Pennsylvania, he has also developed a second skill-- film making.
The StormwaterPA website now has available a new video case study on a riparian buffer restoration project in the Bullfrog Creek Watershed in Montgomery County.
House and Senate members, joined environmental groups and local government representatives this week in calling on the General Assembly and the Governor to support the adoption of a severance tax on natural gas production from Marcellus Shale that supports environmental programs and local governments.
Environmental, sportsmen and conservation groups joined several members of the General Assembly to call on the Senate, House and Gov. Rendell to pass a budget with judicious program cuts balanced with new revenue to avoid damage to our land, water and communities.
Giant Eagle, Inc. based in Pittsburgh was recently recognized with a Business Leadership Recycling Award from the American Forest and Paper Association.
With Commonwealth’s elk viewing season fast approaching, Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe is offering some guidance on where to go, as well as encouraging those planning to travel to “elk country” to be respectful of local residents.
Think globally, act locally – that’s the focus of GreenLife Pennsylvania, a new television series produced by WVIA public media of Pittston and sponsored in part by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and iConservePA.
The Harrisburg Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Lemoyne, Cumberland County this week awarded the Harrisburg Area Community College main campus with a $1,000 scholarship for winning the Recycle Bowl competition for recycling 13,650 plastic or aluminum containers.
The Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center works to facilitate ecosystems based management across the state. Listen to Penn State researchers, Matt Ehrhart from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Susan Marquart, PA Association of Conservation Districts, Paul Swartz, Susquehanna River Basin Commission and many others discuss nutrient run-off and its effect on local watersheds, as well as the downstream waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy recently organized volunteers to remove European Water Chestnut aquatic plants from Lake Delmont in Montgomery County.
The Brandywine Valley Association put together this promotional video on all the activities and programs the Association sponsors in the Brandywine Watershed in Chester County, Pa.
Learn about education, land use, water conservation and much more.
The Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks has won the prestigious National Gold Medal Award presented by the American Academy of Park and Recreation Management in partnership with the National Recreation and Park Association, and proudly sponsored by Musco Lighting.
County Conservation District Watershed Specialists have been a vital force in Pennsylvania’s watershed movement for nearly 10 years, providing much needed environmental services in their counties and saving the state millions of dollars in project costs, in part by locating matching funding and in-kind contributions for environmental projects.
Transferable Development Rights allow for communities to both preserve open space and meet the need for additional development. In most cases, the use of TDR benefits both the developer and the conservationist.
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania and regional partner Renew Lehigh Valley have continued their ongoing initiative to mobilize community support for regional collaboration on water and wastewater infrastructure, and the work is getting some much-deserved public attention.
In the Dimock area of Susquehanna County, the drinking water well of a 66-year-old retired nurse exploded earlier this year after methane seeped into her water supply and those of eight other homes.
The December edition of Focus on Pennsylvania follows Sen. Mary Jo White (R-Venango) and Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) as they tour a Chief Oil & Gas Marcellus Shale natural gas operations in Lycoming County.
The first stage in a massive stream restoration project, a Friends of the Upper Delaware River funded study recently completed by LandStudies Inc. lays out plans for the total rehabilitation of Sands and Cadosia Creeks in the Town of Hancock. This project will benefit habitat for the fishery, mitigate flooding for inhabitants of the watershed, and serve as a pilot program for streams throughout the region.
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