Green It Forward

It’s simple, really:  Green It Forward is where non-profit journalism meets environmental education. We originally started with two journalists (Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall) who are traveling the country in a partially-solar 1969 Dodge Wright Way, interviewing people in every state about the ways individuals (especially unsung heroes) are greening the planet. The engineering team behind [...]

When motivated people work together, great things happen. That’s what a group of disparate individuals–including a high school teacher, a private equity investor, a green church activist and a commercial herb grower–discovered in Westport, Connecticut. Together they breathed life into a historic farm property, transforming it into a bustling organic garden and green learning hub. [...]

Continue “fracking” with Philly, and the attempt will be met with a fight. That was the basic message sent by a few hundred impassioned and highly concerned Philadelphia protesters who walked four miles across the city—from the Schuylkill River on the west side to the Delaware River on the East—this March 23, the day after [...]

If you’ve seen photographs taken in third world countries depicting mountains of discarded electrical and electronic devices you know how big of an issue e-waste really is. Then add in the fact that most of the obsolete, or broken electronics we discard each year contain dangerous elements such as lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium,  and brominated [...]

By Sharon R. Cole Re-think. Re-use. Re-invent. —this is the motto of one Philadelphia-based renegade artist, woodworker and carpenter who, more than seven years ago, tuned-in to her intuition, thought about the state of affairs of our planet, and set forth to do something about it. Jen Roder, founder of Rotorcaps, began collecting left-behind beer [...]