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Keep PA Beautiful Announces Recipients Of 2023 Volunteer And Community Partners Awards

PA Environment Daily

Marinos not only volunteers with ACW but she devotes time to Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy helping to maintain flower gardens around the city of Pittsburgh. -- Kathy Frederick, nominated by Keep Allentown Beautiful: Kathy Frederick is a Litter Legend in the Lehigh Valley area.

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In Memoriam: Walt Pomeroy, Environmental, Wildlife & Wilderness Advocate

PA Environment Daily

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Student concern and action did not stop on Earth Day. It was a life well lived.”

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April 11 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S. In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S. The April 11 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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At The Side Of Spring Creek In Dauphin County: An Introduction

PA Environment Daily

Fetter, Penn State Extension Educator At the Side of Spring Creek is an ongoing article series telling the stories of Penn State Extension staff and colleagues as they establish and maintain a research-oriented conservation planting along a stream. Posted: July 21, 2021] PA Environment Digest Many people have streams on their property.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

1 -- LancasterOnline: Join A Wildflower Walk And 93 Things For Plant Lovers To Try In April -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Releases 2021 Annual Report, Highlights Spring, Summer Events -- Penn State: How Would A Nuclear Winter Impact Food Production?

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

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Most recently, in February 2021, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality recognized the Canadian Magpie River’s legal rights of personhood through the adoption of twin resolutions — one resolution by the Innu and another resolution by the municipality. The case is pending a decision. Pakistan : G.

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DCNR Highlights Benefits Of Trees In Communities; TreeVitalize, TreePennsylvania, Keystone Tree Fund Can Help

PA Environment Daily

On April 8, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn visited Carlisle, Cumberland County, to help plant trees and highlight the many benefits they provide to communities. Planting a tree is a simple act with a big impact,” Dunn said at the police station where the trees are being planted.