Our mission is redistributing health and social wealth through education: environmental, food justice, and innovative green consulting services.
There is no getting around the truth that our bodies reflect what we choose to eat.
"You are what you eat" has never had more relevance to living well.
The world is interconnected. The earth, the stars, the universe-- these are not separate from us.
The deep reality of existence? We are made of the same stuff as all living creatures, even inanimate life.
How do we relate to our world each day knowing this to be true?
What choices do we make?
Community
Supported Agriculture for social service organizations
Therapeutic and edible gardens
Honey Bee Stewardship and Urban Beekeeping
Urban Farming
Sustainability courses for small discussion groups
Coordinated Service Learning
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See this worker bee with her legs stuffed full of pollen? She's becoming an endangered species. Honey bees have been around for 800,000 years and are part of the complex process uniting bees with foods we eat everyday. Eggplant, squash and string beans. S trawberries, apples and tomatoes. We need honey bees. Now h oney bees need our help. Urban beekeeping is one of the fastest growing acts of environmental stewardship in the world. It's not about the honey anymore. It's about the bees.
Awbury Arboretum is a 55 acre inner city green space in Philadelphia and is a pesticide-free zone. Help us build our community apiary. Become an Angel Bee. Together, we'll c reate this sanctuary for honey bees. Youth throughout our city will learn the fascinating craft of beekeeping from their elders, experience hands-on environmental stewardship, learn the harmony of honey bee society... and then enjoy the honey!
Register for beekeeping course
Philadelphia 4-H Club
* Build awareness of environmental issues in our vulnerable communities
* Generate commitment for personal lifestyle changes in Philadelphila's communities of color;
* Engage intergenerational action on environmental issues;
* Connect spirituality and a sense of personal well-being with environmental consciousness;
* Build awareness of environmental injustices and work to rectify them through community partnerships.
Of course, none of this happens without your support. Whether you volunteer for one of our projects, suggest new projects, or just talk to others about the importance of sound environmental stewardship, consider getting involved. Questions or concerns? Let us know. Contact us!
City Harvest Growers Alliance
Philadelphia Green
Public Health Management Corporation
Project H.O.M.E
Penn State Extension Service/Master Gardeners
Awbury Arboretum
Growing for Good: Philadelphia
Resources for Human Development
Womens Business Development Center
Sustainable Business Network
Northwest Earth Institute and Green Sanctuary
Inspiring people to take responsibility for Earth
The Northwest Earth Institute is recognized as a national leader in developing innovative programs that empower individuals and organizations to protect Earth. These programs emphasize individual responsibility, the importance of a supportive community, and the dual need to walk lightly on and to take action for the earth. By reaching out to people in their workplace, home, faith center, neighborhood, and community, NWEI provides easy access to tools for individual and cultural change.
NWEI has spent the past 16 years motivating individuals to:
• examine and transform personal values and habits,
• accept responsibility for a healthy, inhabitable Earth, and
• act on this commitment
Reusable Stainless Steel Water Bottles
This video from Simple Solutions provides the hard, cold facts about how much pollution, toxicity and wasted energy is involved with bottled water.
Why a Green Bottle?
This is one simple thing you can easily change. Buy our non-toxic, non-polluting reusable water bottle and support our Green Sanctuary programs!
We have opportunities for community service and service learning year round.
The following unpaid internships are available:
Marketing/Communications
Social Media
Web maintenance
Development
For more information
contact:
Anaiis Salles
anaiis.gseipa_gmail.com
267-325-6869
Our partner in this very special project is Eagleville Hospital.Once a farm and sanitorium, this facility situted on 100 acres in Montgomery County now serves as one of our areas foremost rehabilitation centers for those struggling with addictions.
Working in a garden is great exercise. When you give your full attention to the plants and the earth, the results are predictable. Nature's timing reminds us that we are not in control, although we can help create beauty and bounty by working with her schedule, her seasons.
Eagleville Hospital appreciates the healing potential of working with plants. Their greenhouse is to be a source of plants for the hospital grounds. House plants tended in the greenhouse are distributed to patients and staff. The new Collegeville Farmers Market is contributing a stall and proceeds from sales of plants will be used to sustain the therapeutic gardening program.
Penn State Extension Service staff Linda Hoade is part of creating hands-on master gardener classes, using the formal beds of the hospital as a blank canvas for gardeners in training.
Our community apiary project promotes urban beekeeping.
Did you know that three out of four bites of fresh fruits and vegetables we eat are pollinated by bees? No weeds? No bees!
Miracle Gro, Round Up, and neonicotinoids? If you enjoy eating safe vegetables and plenty of them, gives our bees a break! Stop using pesticides on your lawns and gardens. Join the Dandelion Revolution! Save the honey bee!
Can you tell he difference between a yellow jacket and a honey bee? Do you know how long bees have been pollinating plants and making honey? Did you know honey is being used to treat burns? Honey jarred more than 1,000 years was still safe to eat when it was found in an Egyptian tomb -- honey has antiseptic propeties and is thought to be a wonderful homeopathic for outdoor seasonal allergies
Come learn all about the craft of beekeeping at the Awbury Arboretum.
Member of a Boy Scout of Girl Scout Troop? Your troop can sponsor a beehive at the Arboretum. Ask how!
Our pilot project initiatives include:
Green Sanctuary Earth Institute is, above all, an innovative non-profit organization.
We design, coordinate and implement service learning opportunities. Is your school/institution look for service learning in the areas of local food, urban farming, food secure communities, and hands-on sustainability projects?
