Pennsylvania Legacies
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Pennsylvania Legacies
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education, and advocacy. PEC believes in the value of partnerships with the private sector, government, communities, and individuals to improve the quality of life...
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Saline Solution
In places like Pennsylvania, where ice and snow can create dangerous driving conditions, road salting is a necessity. But in the absence of statewide...
Higher Ground
The Higher Ground gravel ride will return to Johnstown on November 2. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council is partnering with race coordinators Dave...
Bucket List
PEC Program Manager Rachael Stark is on a mission: visit all 63 of America’s National Parks before her 30th birthday this July. With just a few weeks...
Maintenance Men
It's easy to generate excitement around building new miles of trail. More difficult, but arguably more important, is maintaining existing trails. To h...
Celebrating Earth Month
April is a big month for the environment. From Earth Day, first observed in the same year PEC was founded, to Arbor Day (April 25), to Celebrate Trail...
All of the Below
You know what geothermal energy is. But did you know that Pennsylvania has enough to heat and cool our homes and businesses, power our industries, and...
Counterinvasion
When it comes to public awareness of invasive species in the northeastern U.S., spotted lanternfly is the undisputed media darling. But in PA, the big...
Making Waves
Three Rivers Waterkeeper is a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit whose mission is to steward the region's three main rivers and their tributaries. That work l...
How Green Is Your Christmas Tree?
On today's special holiday-themed episode, we dig into some of the holiday season's evergreen questions with a Pennsylvania Christmas tree expert, suc...
Ground Breaking
As living ecosystems that can sequester carbon and use it to feed a hungry planet, farms have an important role to play in the fight against climate c...
Food For Thought
In Pennsylvania and beyond, the food industry's economic importance is rivaled only by its environmental and climate impacts. Pittsburgh-based Chef Ch...
Flight Risk
Building collisions kill more than a billion birds each year in the U.S. and Canada. A product-testing program at Powdermill Avian Research Center in...
Outside Perspectives
Leaders and experts from across the country gathered in Pittsburgh to discuss the potential for outdoor recreation to grow rural economies. What can P...
Smiles for Miles
For the first time since its 2019 launch, this year the PEC Public Lands Ride was a sold-out event. PEC's Derek Maiolo joins 150+ happy cyclists on th...
Putting Recreation On the Map
The outdoor industry employs thousands of Pennsylvanians in bike shops, outfitters and retailers, hospitality services, and even manufacturing. It als...
Great Rivers Greenway
The Great Rivers Greenway is advancing its mission to make the St. Louis region more vibrant by developing a network of trails and greenways. We learn...
All About the Go
Pittsburgh’s bike share organization launched a new adaptive rental program this summer to provide riders of various cognitive and physical abilities...
Common Ground
Landslides are occurring more frequently in Pennsylvania, and projected increases in the frequency and severity of rain events will only compound the...
Solar for Schools
As competing legislative priorities battled it out in the state budget endgame, one measure sailed through the House and Senate with overwhelming bipa...
Master's Degree
Penn State Extension's Master Watershed Stewards program celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. PEC's Derek Maiolo, a member of the most recent c...
Leave It to Beavers
A Susquehanna University professor is pioneering a new way to restore watersheds in Pennsylvania using old tricks from beavers. What can we learn from...
An Ounce of Prevention
Last month, PEC announced the recipients of the first round of Protect Your Drinking Water grants, funded by Aqua Pennsylvania. On this episode we'll...
Deciding On Trails (repeat)
PEC staff are on retreat this week, so we're revisiting our June 2021 conversation with Amy Camp, author of "Deciding On Trails: 7 Practices of Health...
Riding NEPA Gravel
Gravel riding is the fastest-growing segment of cycling -- and with hundreds of miles of unpaved mountain roads and plenty to see and do along the way...
Much to Celebrate
PEC staff joined partners and neighbors at 2024 Celebrate Trails Day events across the state last weekend. On this episode, we share trailside convers...
Engaging Communities on Hydrogen
As a clean energy technology, hydrogen holds both promise and peril -- especially in terms of local impacts and public attitudes. With DoE-funded regi...
Rising to the Occasion
As Pennsylvania goes after hundreds of millions of Climate Pollution Reduction Grant dollars, a conversation with the architect of RISE-PA, the Depart...
Birds on the Wire
Climate change threatens the survival of two thirds of all North American bird species. But the massive buildout of power transmission infrastructure...
New Year, New Leadership
On this episode we get to know PEC's new president, Tom Gilbert, who started in January. A native Pennsylvanian, Tom has led successful campaigns for...
Emission: Impossible
Oil and gas producing states have two years to bring their regulations up to newly finalized EPA standards, including stricter inspection and repair r...
Getting Hydrogen Right
Two of the seven proposals selected for federal funding to develop clean hydrogen "hubs" have a footprint in Pennsylvania. The state has several key c...
Lights Out!
New legislation in Harrisburg would require the use of responsible outdoor lighting at state government facilities, something cities in Pennsylvania a...
A Seat at the Table
The Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Youth Advisory Council (NEYAC), launched in November of 2023, is EPA's first advisory com...
Throughline
Throughout Pennsylvania's history, there's a throughline of progress on the environment and conservation that begins with the vision and hard work of...
Bonus: Trails Together
The Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Allegheny County extends more than 33 miles on both banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers. The robus...
Currently Streaming
The PA Statewide Watershed Conference, held Oct. 29-30 in Altoona, convened experts and community volunteers alike to discuss water-related issues and...
Carbon Pricing 101 (repeat)
As we await key court decisions on Pennsylvania's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a refresher on what RGGI is, how it works,...
From the Start
The idea for an 11-mile Greenway along the Delaware River in Philadelphia goes all the way back to 1995, with U.S. Rep. Bob Borski's vision for reconn...
Milestones
It's our 200th podcast episode! We celebrate by recognizing another big milestone: issue #1000 of the PA Environment Digest published by former PA Dep...
All Natural
Pennsylvania native Tom Comitta set out to create a novel composed entirely of nature descriptions from more than 300 English-language books published...