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Don’t leave your helmets at home! Tomorrow is the annual National Bike to Work Day – which is also a favorite in Philly. The League of American Bicyclists started Bike to Work Day in 1956 in hopes of showing the power of the bicycle. Riding bicycles is a healthy alternative mode of transportation and can save some gas money – and you know prices at the pump aren’t getting any cheaper.
Join Mayor Nutter in his 6th year and other public officials as a participant of this widely celebrated day of exercise. Here’s a preview of the morning schedule for Bike to Work Day on Friday, May 17:
Looking for something to do tonight? Night Market Philadelphia hits Fairmount Avenue between 19th and 22nd Street from 6 to 10 p.m. for a night of food, music, and art to kick off The Food Trust’s 2013 festival season.
The Food Trust is dedicated to (Find out more, after the jump)
Looking to get some volunteer hours in this summer? Want to meet locavore lovers and those who love to eat? Farm to City has a volunteer opportunity we are sharing below:
Farm to City is looking for energetic and passionate volunteers to staff an information table at our biggest market, the Saturday Rittenhouse Farmers’ Market. Volunteers will provide information and resources on vendors, community activities, and Farm to City programs including:
Who loovveeesss your Philly parks? We’re in the midst of the 2nd annual Love Your Park Week, designed by the Fairmount Park Conservancy & Philadelphia Parks & Rec to celebrate our city’s diverse parks.
From May 11 – 18, Philadelphia hosts service projects, events, education programs, family activities & more. Festivities kicked off on Saturday with the Love Your Park Service Day, where hundreds of residents volunteered in their neighborhoods. With over 70 events, there’s something for music lovers, art lovers, nature lovers, yogis and more. (I personally love a good ol’ glass of wine & several plates of cheese in front of me in Philly parks, which I plan on doing again sooon enough…)
How can you Clean, Green & Celebrate Philly Parks? Find out, after the jump!
“City of Brotherly Love!”
“Birth Place of Liberty.”
“Home of the Cheesesteak.”
Philadelphia has been crowned with yet another title: America’s Garden Capital, which is perfect timing for National Public Gardens Day. Did you know Philadelphia has 30 public gardens within 30 miles? We rock the highest concentration of public gardens (and arboreta) on the CONTINENT.
Philly celebrated the announcement on Tuesday at Bartram’s Garden. Founder John Bartram brought many of the seeds of the plants at Bartram’s back in the 1700′s to the area, shaping modern horticulture. Tuesday’s celebration was complete with children creating a ‘green thumbs’ flower planter for First Lady Michelle Obama, tours & more.
GPB Green Lady, aka Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability Director Katherine Gajewski presented an official proclamation to raise awareness of our gardens’ (Find out more about this honor and how to get FREE park admission on Friday!)
One of my favorite Philly sustainable boutique, Arcadia, announced that it is closing its Rittenhouse location later this month.
This guest post comes from Nicole Koedyker, Sierra Club President at Drexel.
Are you interested in sustainability? Do you like working alongside people who have similar interests but are a telecommuter or student? In addition to being a senior at Drexel University, I also work for The Sustainability NEXUS, a non-profit organization that is working to bring together this target audience and others to collaborate on sustainability initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
If you’ve ever (Find out more about this group and tomorrow’s co-working pop-up, after the jump!)
The National Bike Challenge officially began May 1st. The challenge is essentially a nationwide effort to increase bicycle ridership through camaraderie and good-natured competition.
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (BCGP) is organizing the initiative for Philly.
So how does the National Bike Challenge work?
The Philly Bike Share Forum at the Academy of Natural Sciences (of Drexel University) brought together four cities to discuss bicycling safety, potential & bike share plans last evening after a day-long Pedestrian & Bicycle Summit at Independence Hall. Ever since Mayor Michael Nutter announced the bike sharing in China back in 2012, word has been buzzing on the street. Philadelphia is joining 42 other US bike sharing cities in this milestone initiative.
The evening forum was surprisingly funny, interesting and informative. A few ‘tweets’ into the meeting, I decided to do an impromptu live-tweeting of the event. (Sorry for the lack of notice, readers – but it was fun to do and I’ll give an advanced warning next time. 
Many of the tweets are embedded below the summary if you’d like to check out.)
Rina Cutler, Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities, (Philadelphia) moderated the event. She
I’ll admit it. I wanted to be ‘greener’ a few years ago, so I cut out dryer sheets from my laundry. Instead, I found those small, spikey “blue balls” at the dollar store that were reusable to soften my clothes. They even claimed to reduce my drying time, saving me dolla’ bills for the clothes drying machine.
What I didn’t know? Those plastic dryer balls are made out of PVC, (Find out more about those ‘blue’ dryer balls and an amazing sustainable alternative, after the jump!)
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