I just started riding my bicycle to work- from New York City’s Lower East Side to Madison Square Park- and I have to say that it is very empowering.  No longer restricted by the schedule of the subway, I am free to ride where and when I want.  Call me a romantic, but I also consider it quite unifying.  I even find myself wanting to wave to other bicyclists in the bike lane.  That will probably stop as I become a more seasoned...

It’s Time for Some Serious Trash Talk.

With that slogan splashed across the facemask of an imposing Philadelphia Eagle football player, you enter the Eagles’ Go Green website, exhibit A in my challenge to my good friend Mardi Ditze. She wrote two weeks ago about sports’ detrimental environmental impact that sporting events create, but sports and teams can actually help lead important changes on a wide range of sustainability issues, and my...

Ahhhhh, finally!   After what seemed to be a really long and cold winter, the temperature is warming, the days are getting longer, and the freshness in the air reminds us that spring’s arrival is just around the corner.  I don’t know about you, but I am more than ready to get outside and start enjoying the warmer weather! 

To kick off spring (just a few days early) on March 18th, Community Energy will be sponsoring an...

In 1722, a Dutch admiral landed on Easter Island, a tiny isolated piece of land nearly 2,000 miles off the west coast of South America.  As the first visitor from the western world, the admiral estimated the indigenous population to be about 3,000 inhabitants.  These inhabitants, he noticed, were living in conditions of constant warfare, finding housing in caves and resorting to atrocities like cannibalism. However, later generations...

I have been interested in wind energy for years, and work for a wind energy company, but had never visited a wind farm. I pass the Jersey Atlantic wind farm in Atlantic City every summer on the way to my vacation house in Brigantine, New Jersey. I can see the turbines from the beach, but I have never gone for a tour. When I was offered the opportunity to visit a new wind farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, I was excited at the prospect of finally...