Philadelphia

School's out for summer... which means a new batch of students are coming in the fall! Besides factors such as location, campus size and party school ranking, students often take a university's sustainability into account for deciding on a college. The Princeton Review & Green Building Council published a “Guide to 286 Green Colleges” to help students find the top green schools - It's the 1st college guidebook to list schools with the most environmentally-responsible campuses and school-wide commitment to sustainability. The Princeton Review’s “Guide to 286 Green Colleges” looks at an institution’s

From a Trashion Show to Mural Arts on Trash Trucks, Philly had quite an array of celebrations yesterday for the 40th celebration of Earth Day! Here's some photos, links & a video for your re-cap pleasure: Philadelphia Streets Department debuted 10 Mural recycling trucks like this one, with lots of abstract Philly scenery: This truck definitely looks like Spring & will hopefully motivate citizens to get Philly clean: This truck reminds me of Fall:

Philly's 3rd Annual Spring Cleanup had its biggest cleanup ever thanks to greenies like you with its UnLitter Us Campaign! Over 11,000 volunteers worked at 231 official project sites to collect over 1.3 million lbs of trash, 140K lbs of recycling, 50 parks & recreation centers cleaned and 763 neighborhood blocks cleaned! Incredible numbers, Philly! But how can you keep it up for this Earth week (and always...) Here's some suggestions:

Happy Earth month! Philly's packed with eco-friendly events for Earth Week! (For a complete listing, feel free to check out our new Philly Events Calendar page! Here are some highlights of upcoming events to visit:

Calculate your neighborhood's "Walk Score" here and see how walk-able your area is. This website will pull up a nifty list of

This early spring weather has lots of green Events in Philly coming up! See all the exciting happenings in Philadelphia in the next month:

Alright, alright. I'll admit it. I'm a bitch. A (Skinny) Bitch. A couple years ago,

Adam Rung Woodworks is a Philadelphia-based, eco-friendly furniture company. The works are beautiful - Need proof? Check out the Dogwood Cherry bench/coffee table below: This work has a

We hear you: readers, friends and acquaintances have said one of their goals for 2010 is to do (more?) volunteer work… UC Green - non profit organization that plants and maintains trees- is an excellent organization to get involved in! At the end of November UC Green held their annual community tree-planting event - they planted one hundred and fifty bare root trees in several blocks throughout West Philadelphia. Close to three hundred volunteers chipped in. Another event, the New Year Limb-Up,