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Green Team takes kids to Longwood
On July 2, the West Chester Green Team took a busload of kids from West Chester’s Little Faces Day Care on an outing to Longwood Gardens. Here are some photos of the very successful event, part of our effort to familiarize local residents, including kids, more with the world of nature and especially plants (whether…
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“Recycling is supposed to be the last resort” – Why our recycling system is broken
The US Recycling System Is Garbage (Sierra Magazine, 6/26/19, by Edward Humes) details the many issues in the US’s current recycling system. Most of what you put in the bin doesn’t actually get recycled, and recycling is now coming as a cost to our economy – and it’s all because China stopped accepting our dirty…
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New Maps Show How Groundwater Affects Lakes and Rivers
100 years of pumping has reduced stream flows by 50 percent in some areas by Jason Daley, Sierra magazine, 7/2/19 [N.b.: this is the bottom line of our earlier article “Rain gardens / green infrastructure / Stream Protection Fee“: Our community, county and country need to see that water runoff goes back into the aquifer. Chester…
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Rain gardens / green infrastructure / Stream Protection Fee
Green infrastructure lessens adverse environmental impacts through features like rain garden, which intercept water flowing down a street, filter out impurities, and let the water drain slowly into the underlying aquifer. Rain gardens also enhance the beauty of streetscapes, slow down traffic , and encourage pedestrians to enjoy walking. Our society has traditionally had a…
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Plastic-bag ban introduced in Council
The above title could apply in West Chester, where Borough Council is holding a hearing on July 17, 6:30 p.m., at 401 E. Gay St., about its planned adoption of an ordinance entitled “Plastic Bag and Plastic Straw Regulations” (download here: https://wcgreenteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/plastic-bag-and-straw-ordinance-wc-for-7-17-19.pdf) for the following purpose: The purpose of this Chapter is to reduce the…
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