article thumbnail

Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosting 2-Part Food Manufacturing Pollution Prevention Training Series

PA Environment Daily

Gain insights into reducing operational costs, enhancing sustainability, and joining a regional effort to upcycle food waste and conserve energy.

article thumbnail

How to Make Your Halloween More Eco-Friendly

Ocean Conservancy

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Use natural decorations like pumpkins, corn stalks and dried leaves, and make reusable decorations using fabric or cardboard, or get crafty with upcycled items you already have at home. We are too.

Ocean 110
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Huge Turnout at Sustainability Center’s Annual Potting Event

HumanNature

I’m also really excited about the trash art because I love making jewelry and any sort of upcycled art.” Teckenbrock, who came to the Potting event after her foundations of sustainability professor told her about it, became interested in the Patchwork Project and the Community for Climate Anxiety. “I

article thumbnail

July 8 Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

1 Special Program By Dr. Bern Sweeney Pike, Wayne Conservation Districts, Trout Unlimited Partner On New Stream Keepers Youth Program Aug. 3 Discover How To Identify, Track Invasive Species Using iMapInvasives In Aug. 9 Penn State Extension Webinar Gifford Pinchot’s Grey Towers Hosts Festival Of Wood & National Public Lands Day Sept.

article thumbnail

EPA Announces $13.9 Million In Environmental, Climate Justice Community Change Grants In PA

PA Environment Daily

In Pennsylvania, nearly $14 million is being awarded to the LandForce Pittsburgh Conservation Corps and PowerCorpsPHL to work in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to expand and create critical infrastructure for upcycling and commercializing materials from urban tree waste.

article thumbnail

Harrisburg Area YMCA's Camp Curtin Branch Urban Garden Adds Native Plants To Help Vegetables Grow

PA Environment Daily

Not only is she teaching our youth and their families that they can come to the garden learn about how to plant and grow your own food but also these children and their families are learning about sustainability, upcycling, recycling, and working in neighborhoods that they are growing up in. They are very different, but they need each other.”

article thumbnail

Fort Collins Fashion: A Sustainable Revolution

HumanNature

The initiative hosts mending workshops and provides upcycling education for both students and community members. Mending it, upcycling it, doing whatever you can to repurpose it,” explains Patchwork Initiative Coordinator Sophie Richter. Circular fashion is creating the longest life out of what you have.