Neighborhood Bike Works: The Hub of the Bicyle Culture

Find out what Neighborhood Bike Works and the “Bicycle Lifestyle” is all about right here >>>

This four minutes video was filmed and edited by Greendocs:
Julia Hoff, Bunker Seyfert,Heather Craig and Kathleen Monahan.

Read on…

Short Film on West Philly Pedal Coop wins National Geographic Competition

The theme of the 2009 National Geographic Society film contest was: “Preserve your Planet”.

The winner of this year national competition is a short film about the West Philly’s Pedal Co-Op.

The film was a collaboration of Bruce Pinchback, Dylan Steinberg, Bunker Seyfert, Mathew Sullivan and Brian Honniger, all students at Drexel University on an idea from Jacques Sapriel who runs PhillyEcoCity.com

See the film right > here or in the video widget that you will find in the right hand side bar, bellow the search window.

Also included are interviews with Alex Mulcahy of Grid Magazine, Tim Dunn of Books through Bars, Megan from Trophy Bikes and Challahman Michael Dolich of Four Worlds Bakery!!

PhillyEcoCity includes several posts about the Pedal Coop:

- For more details on the Pedal Coop.

- Here is a short film showing how “Four World Bakery”, a West Philadelphia commercial bakery moved its equipment using the Pedal Coop as its movers.

How about making your own cleaning product?

Charing Ball decides to make her own Green household product.
Maybe we don’t need to spend money buying major cleaning product brands?
How difficult could that be?

See it for yourself right here:

Green Cleaning Products?

Charing Ball researches what the household cleaner” Simple Green” is made of, and discovers that Simple Green is not that simple and contains a toxic chemical agent.  The first stop in the journey of an African-American woman who wants to Go Green.

After all, creating your own green household cleaning products may not be such a bad idea.

How do you move your business when you are committed to a zero carbon footprint??

See how a West Philadelphia Baker who is committed to a zero carbon footprint, moved his business  from the basement of his house to a new location.

This video links two stories previously published on PhillyEcoCity on:
- Four World Bakery: the sustainable bakery

- The Pedal Coop

Black is the New Green

Charing A. Ball,  Staff Writer at the Mount Airy TimesExpress and the host of “People, Places and Things” on Gtown Internet Radio just launched a Video Blog on Youtube where she will document her experience as an African American woman going Green. In her first instalment of her videoblog, Charing states her intention and direction for her blog.

I am curious to find out  the experience of an African American woman working toward a greener life style. Stay tuned.

A suburban CSA powered by Solar power and Bio-Diesel fuel

Visit to Anchor Run Farm – CSA in Wrightstown, PA
First of a series on Urban Farming
All the electrical power for the farm is supplied by a solar array. The farmer uses a 1950 vintage tractor powered by bio-diesel fuel, that exactly fits the needs of an organic farm to seed and mechanically remove weeds. This documentary was produced by Julia Hoff from Greendocs for PhillyEcoCity.com

more about “A suburban CSA powered by Solar power…“, posted with vodpod

The Great Philadelphia Cleanup Day: A story in words, images and video.

For the first time, Heather Craig and Julia Hoff from the Drexel University Film Department went out to document the cleanup for PhillyEcoCity.com. See their video right here.

Two lines in the city tally of the Great Philadelphia Cleanup Day caught my attention:

- 200 Community organizations involved

- 14 Churches or faith-based institutions involved.

I think the impact of the Great Philadelphia Clean Up Day goes far beyond the statistics tallying the outcome of the operation. In my experience, the Great Philadelphia Clean up Day was a community building event.

I was assigned to the Simons Recreation Center in the Ogontz Section of the city. I got there and landed in a crew who was cleaning a long block of Walnut Lane bordering the sport fields of the Simons Recreation Center. Carl, Malcolm and myself discussed the finer points of comparative religion while picking up trash along Walnut Lane.