Updated 12/17/2019
The West Chester Food Co-op aims to be a community that shares sustainable practices, friendly faces, and healthy and fresh food.
Website: https://www.westchester.coop/
Email: info@westchester.coop
Instagram: @westchestercooperative
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WestChesterFoodcooperative/
Updated 12/17/2019
The Overbrook Environmental Education Center was established as a community based center dedicated to the preservation of our built and natural environments, improved public health, and for the promotion of sustainable and livable communities, and to ensure a more livable, sustainable, and equitable community in the City of Philadelphia.
This organization fulfills its mission through the development of great partnerships with both local and national organizations. Although JASTECH, OEEC’s parent nonprofit, serves the entire Philadelphia area, it has a targeted focus on environmental justice communities in zip codes 19131, 19139, & 19151 in West Philadelphia.
The center was repurposed by removing 20 tons of trash and debris, reintroducing native fauna, adding bioretension systems, urban forestry, agriculture, and orchards. The OEEC offers programs for the entire family in nutrition, environmental education, arts & literacy, and public health.
Website: http://overbrookcenter.wixsite.com/overbrook
Phone: 215-879-7770
Updated 10/14/19
About
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is America’s First Urban Refuge and was established in 1972 for the purpose of preserving, restoring, and developing the natural area known as Tinicum Marsh, to promote environmental education, and to afford visitors an opportunity to study wildlife in its natural habitat.
The refuge houses healthy and productive expanses of freshwater tidal marsh, open waters, mudflats, and woodlands support the hundreds of species that breed, rear their young, rest during migration, or call the refuge home year-round.
The refuge leads by example in the conservation of freshwater tidal marsh within the Delaware Estuary but more importantly, in providing environmental education in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties. Also, given its accessibility and visibility to over 1,700,00 million people living within 10 miles of the refuge and more than 35 million Americans living within a 2-hours drive, the refuge serves as a prominent ambassador of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Its high-quality programs promote natural and cultural resource stewardship, demonstrate wildlife habitat management, encourage compatible outdoor public use, and provide a living classroom to connect both schools and communities with nature and local history.
Volunteer opportunities
All prospective volunteers should download and complete a Volunteer Application and submit it to the refuge’s Volunteer Coordinator, David Stoughton. Forms may be submitted via email to johnheinznwr@fws.gov or in-person. This application will be forwarded to appropriate refuge staff who will determine how your talents can be best used at Heinz Refuge. Training for all positions will be provided.
Volunteer opportunities can be found at: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/John_Heinz/what_we_do/get_involved.html.
Directions on how to get to the refuge can be found at https://www.fws.gov/refuge/John_Heinz/visit/directions.html
Website: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/John_Heinz/
Phone: 215-365-3118
Email: johnheinznwr@fws.gov