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Happy Oceans Day, Florida Crocs & the Earth is Screwed: Friday Link roundup

Happy Friday, and Happy World Oceans Day!  Hope ya’ll are drinking like a locavore during Philly Beer Week. Our gifts to you in the weekly roundup are as follows:

  • Happy World Oceans Day! Completely Coastal provides some tips of how to love the ocean.
  • Need plans for the weekend?  Try getting outside and biking, running or swimming, especially if you need to lose a few lbs: MNN gave 5 surprising eco-impacts of being a fatty over a skinny bitch.
  • The Phila Bike Coalition has a bunch of bike workshops about safe biking & more! Check out their events calendar for deets.
  • Philly.com’s Green shares a Penn Stater’s insight to global warming.
  • According to the Waste Space & UN, the Earth’s on its environmental brink. Who’s moving to the moon?
  • Holy ISH! Did you know Florida has crocodiles? Speaking of which, I held a baby Alligator last weekend named USA. Isn’t he cute?

 

Julie Hancher

Julie Hancher is Editor-in-Chief of Green Philly, sharing her expertise of all things sustainable in the city of brotherly love. She enjoys long walks in the park with local beer and greening her travels, cooking & cat, Sir Floofus Drake.

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