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GreenFest Philly coming Sunday
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments
From Green Right Now Reports
The City of Brotherly Love will be showing its nature-loving side this coming Sunday during GreenFest Philly  at 2nd and South streets. The event, sponsored by Toyota and produced by the Urban Green Partnership, will feature a green film festival, an introduction to the Girl Scouts of America’s new Go Green Initiative and displays by some 200 enviromental groups and businesses.
About 25,000 people are expected to attend this year’s GreenFest Philly. This year’s theme is “food” and booths are expected to help educate the public on how to buy locally, eat vegetarian, grow your own food and support farmer’s markets.
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Tags: · GreenFest Philly, Philadelphia, Toyota, Urban Green Partnership
Mining a vintage Philly rowhouse for Platinum LEED
By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now
How do you turn a 100-year-old Philadelphia row-house into a green house? Better question: How do you make that row-house green enough to potentially forego HVAC half of the year?
 With lots of love, forethought and green savoir faire, says David Krupp, a Philadelphia-based LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) Realtor and developer. Krupp is selling what he and his architectural designer-owner clients hope will be the first LEED Platinum residence in Philly’s Center City neighborhood, a converted row home at 1500 Montrose Street.
“As it stands, there are no LEED-Platinum certified homes in the Center City area,” Krupp says. “Right now, we’re ‘racing’ with another one.”
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Tags: · Christopher Stromberg, David Krupp, Emily Stromberg, green building, green renovation, green retrofit, LEED platinum, Montrose, Philadelphia, renovation, row homes
Out of excuses: You — yes, you — can ride your bike to work
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Paul Dorn knows that getting Americans to ride a bike to work instead of driving a car is quite the uphill battle. Even on a good day, he says, only a tiny percentage of the nation’s commuters use pedal power to get to their jobs.
He remains undeterred.
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Tags: · bicycle commuting, Bike-to-Work Week, Boulder, Columbus, Davis, League of American Bicyclists, National Bicycle Month, Paul Dorn, Paul Dorn and bike-to-work, Philadelphia, Portland, top cities for cyclists, top states for cyclists
My Green Job: Chet Shank, owner of Thinking Green Systems
Chet Shank, age 38, owner of Thinking Green Systems, LLC, Shippensburg,  Penn.
What I do:
I’ve been building houses for 20 years and began Thinking Green Systems a little over a year ago. The company is a dealer and installer of “BioBased 501″, a spray-in soybean oil-based polyurethane foam insulation, which does not contain formaldehyde and does not emit CFCs or HFCs.
How it helps:
This insulation is made without petroleum products which are fossil fuels. BioBased 501 is made from soybeans, an annually renewable resource.
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Tags: · building supplies, Chet Shenk, green building, Green jobs, Philadelphia, Thinking Green Systems
My Green Job: Donna Arch, founder of a home insulation testing company
April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Donna Arch, 51, owner of Thermal Moisture Imaging, Southampton, Penn.
What I do:
 I am President and Founder of an Infrared Testing Company, located in Southampton, Pa. I oversee the daily operations of the company.
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Tags: · Donna Arch, Green jobs, Philadelphia, Thermal Moisture Imaging
Earth Day is every day at Green Woods Charter School in Philadelphia
By Carol Soneklar
Green Right Now
Although every teacher and student at Green Woods Charter School will be devoting themselves to a full day of environmental service this Earth Day, in reality, it’s pretty much like any other day at the school.
 The only public charter school in the country that is located inside a nature center-Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and its surrounding 350 acres in Philadelphia-Green Woods uses environmental and ecological concepts to drive the development of its curriculum and instruction.
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Tags: · Earth Day, environmental education, Green Woods Charter School, Philadelphia, Schuykill Center
My Green Job: Sarah Guillard, owner of Molasses Bakery
Sarah Guillard, 29, State College, Penn., owner of the Molasses Bakery
 What I do:
I bake organic, gluten free, dairy free cookies and brownies at my bakery, Molasses Bakery.
How it helps:
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Tags: · gluten-free, Green jobs, healthy food, Molasses Bakery, My Green Job, Organics, Philadelphia, Sarah Guillard, State College
Cool your roof with white to save money and the environment
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Everything old is new again. Even roofs
Anyone who is well traveled knows that white roofs have topped homes and buildings in the Middle East and countries around the Mediterranean for centuries. Virtually every city in tropical climates have white, or light-colored roofs. Even the pharaohs, 5,000 years ago, made the tops of their temples white.
Residents of global hot spots know that white reflects heat and makes a building cooler. It’s so simple and obvious, but it’s been almost overlooked by new energy-saving technologies.
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Tags: · California Consumer Energy Center, energy savings, Hashen Akbari, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, metal, National Coatings Association, Philadelphia, Rohm and Haas, roofing, shingles, tiles, white roofs
America’s least wasteful cities
Nalgene’s least wasteful city study, which was produced from a survey of 3,750 Americans in the top 25 largest cities that sought to probe their “mindset”, asking them about their green habits like whether they used public transportation and reusable grocery bags or composted and reused containers — resulted in San Francisco taking top honors as the most mindfully-least-wastefully green city:
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Tags: · Boston, Denver, Least Wasteful Cities, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nalgene, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC
Upcoming Philadelphia green events
BSI — The Case of the Disappearing Bees
Wagner Free Institute of Sci.
March 28, 2009 , 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Dr. May R. Berenbaum, Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss the pollinator crisis, the plight of the honey bees, and advances in entomology that provide hope for their future.
Lauren Zalut 215-763-6529 x 17
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Tags: · Philadelphia, WPVI
More Americans riding public transit
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
While the vast majority of Americans are car bound, rising numbers are getting on board with public transit, commuter and light rail, trolleys and buses.
Those riding the rails and buses took 10.7 billion trips on public transportation in 2008, a 4 percent increase over the number of trips taken in 2007, according to a ridership report by the American Public Transportation Association.
 During the same period, the number of vehicle miles traveled on roadways declined by 3.6 percent, the group reported, citing the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Tags: · Albuquerque, American Public Transportation Association, Baltimore, Buffalo, Buses, Charlotte, commuter rail, Dallas, light rail, Mass Transit, Philadelphia, Pompano Beach, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle
An affordable green home, Philadelphia style
February 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Carol Sonenklar
Green Right Now
They said it couldn’t be done: A LEED platinum house for $100 per square foot in hard construction costs.
 Builders, architects, real estate developers, among others, have expressed skepticism that green building could be done inexpensively. One persistent notion is that sustainable home building is expensive because of higher upfront costs for cutting edge technology and design. Its become conventional wisdom, in some corners, that green building carries a 10 percent upcharge, at least.
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Tags: · 100K House, housing construction, LEED, Philadelphia, Postgreen, rehab, U.S. Green Building Council
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