by Pam Lazos | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Philadelphia skyline - © pam lazos I saw a cartoon the other day. A man and a woman hold hands at the water’s edge, an old gnarled tree to the right of them, while off in the distance is a small silhouette of another person standing on a bluff, the only other human...
by Global Water Alliance | Aug 5, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Written by Kate French We all agree and understand that water is intrinsic to human existence and without it, life on earth will become extinct. Simply put: water is life. Less understood is that water has also been used a tool of oppression. In the...
by Global Water Alliance | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Written by Christiaan Morssink. Reflections on the United Nations Sustainable Gastronomy Day, June 18 I grew up with the ritual of growing food in the backyard and on a small plot of land that my father, like so many others, “rented” from the railroad company. All in...
by Pam Lazos | Sep 29, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Single-use plastic in the kitchen Some months later… Plastic-Free Life Redux I am happy to report that I received a response to my plastics letter. Before I tell you what happened, let me relay a completely unnerving statistic that I read the other day, that is, only...
by Global Water Alliance | Sep 24, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Maria Andrews and Tony Sauder, lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Applied Geosciences program, GWA board members, and mentors to Penn Engineers without Borders, along with Penn student team member, Shawn Kim, presented at the EPA Region 3...
by Pam Lazos | Aug 27, 2019 | Uncategorized |
A Story of Independence I think I'm just one of those people that needs a mission. A few months ago, I decided that if I'm ever going to even approach a Zero Waste Life, I need to find ways to buy things with less built-in waste. The problem with that is I don't...
