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  • Chester County Environment Alliance meeting Sept. 14

    On Sept. 14, the West Chester Green Team met productively for over 2 hours with our environmental friends in the Chester County Environment Alliance (CCEA), an umbrella organization formed with almost 30 of Chester County’s local environmental organizations–and still growing! “Like” the CCEA public Facebook page to stay up to date on local meetings, other…

  • Pottstown Is USA’s 1st City To Have Flexible Plastic Recycling

    By Justin Heinze, West Chester Patch, Sep 30, 2019 Plastic bags, wraps, packaging, product packaging, and more, a significant part of modern waste, can be recycled in the innovative program POTTSTOWN, PA — Pottstown has been chosen as the first municipality in all of North America to pilot an innovative recycling program that could drastically…

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  • Environmental Film Series at WCU

    The Third Annual Environmental Film Series at WCU sponsored by the Office of Sustainability at West Chester University, the West Chester Green Team, and member groups of the Chester County Environment Alliance, in memory of Graham Hudgings. Sykes Student Union Theater, 110 W. Rosedale Ave., West Chester PA 19382. Door opens at 5:30 p.m., films…

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  • More about the Climate Action and Peace rally, West Chester, 9/21/19

    Why combine these 2 topics? Because Saturday was the International Day of Peace, and we can’t be at peace with nature if we aren’t at peace with ourselves and other people. The theme for the day set by the refrain of one of Rev. Dan Schatz’s songs at the beginning: “I ain’t gonna be treated…

  • The world’s youth is on strike

    On September 27th, the anniversary of Silent Spring, there will be a General Strike to Save the Planet! We invite students to strike on this day and not attend school to draw attention to the growing climate problem. Climatologists worldwide have shown beyond a doubt that Earth’s climate is changing, and human industry is responsible.…