EC is working on a variety of projects in our community. Check back here often to keep up to date with water, land, and resource conservation. Our quarterly newsletter is available online usually within one week of mailing to our membership list.
Next board meeting Sept 1, 2010
Posted: 1. Sep. 2010 - 08:11
Board meetings are open to all - 1005 Oak Street, Indiana, PA - second floor - 7 pm
Fall Hoodlebug trail clean up Sept 11, 2010
Posted: 18. Aug. 2010 - 21:48
Come out and help clean up our section of the trail. Should only take about 2 hours. Bring gloves, we supply he bags. Dress for the weather.
Start at 9:00 at the Homer City Ball Park. Rain or Shine.
To get to meeting place take old 119 south through Homer City [Main St] go past the school. Take first right and follow about 1/4 mile to stop sign. Turn right and cross the Hoodlebug trail turn left and follow the trail to the parking lot
Evergreen Conservancy at the Library in October 2010
Posted: 18. Aug. 2010 - 21:39
Come to the library and see what Evergreen Conservancy is all about. Do you know???? What is a conservation easement? Come to a program on Conservation Easements on October 27th at the library - 2nd floor meeting room to find out. read more
Tanoma Event - come one come all
Posted: 18. Aug. 2010 - 21:34
Save the date- October 2, 2010 Come out to Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site to see our new ADA path and our new RENEWABLE ENERGY DEMONSTRATION project. The wind turbine, water turbine, and solar panels will power an aerating fountain to help take iron out of the water and electricity to the pavilion. read more
Annual Membership/JuneBoard Meeting - included a program how to green your house
Posted: 22. Jun. 2010 - 09:25
Our annual meeting was held at Blue Spruce Lodge. It a was pot luck dinner. Everyone brought a side dish. We will supplied hot dogs, rolls and drinks.
If you are environmentally minded should not your home be green?Joe Ferrraro, of EcoLogic, told us how we can have a greener home.He calls his presentation “The Evolution of Home Performance”.If saving energy or a Net Zero House interests you, it was a really interesting program.
The meeting will also included election of new and returning board members and Evergreen will present an annual update.
membership renewals are due July 1, 2010
Posted: 22. Jun. 2010 - 08:16
Please become a new or returning member if you have not already paid your dues for this 2010-2011 year. We are a non profit organization with all volunteer staff. Your membership and donations are what make it possible to continue to provide environmental education and do environmental projects. Thanks in advance for you support!
Girl Scouts at Tanoma
Posted: 17. May. 2010 - 12:51
Twenty seven girl scouts attended a day long activities at Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site to work on receiving their eco-action badge. The badge included various activities to build skills, learn about technology, do service projects and explore career possibilities in the careers related to the environment. We had a demonstration of our wind turbine, they did water testing, learned about stream critters, and how water can be polluted through a demonstration of the water simulator. They went on a systems walk to understand how the passive system works and had fun making tie-dye T-shirts from the iron oxide in the collection ponds. They learned recycling options and were shown how plants can be used as an environmentally friendly substitute to cleaning with chemicals. It was a very full day.
Thanks to all the members who helped leading sessions with the girls: Adam Cotchen, Anne Daymut, John Dudash, Cindy Rogers, Yvonne Branan, Dan Boone, Paul and Mary Yacovone, and Susan McClure. Thanks also to the people behind the scenes who helped by mowing the grass and prepping the site.
Thanks to all the great girl scouts and their leaders and parents who came out to learn more about their environment and to Georgenne Gillespie and Sandy Gandolfiwho helped coordinate this event. Hope to see you all back again!
Story Walk at Tanoma
Posted: 17. May. 2010 - 12:49
Story Walk installed at Tanoma
Have you met Grandfather Twilight? Clue – He lives among the trees.Clue- He loves to take a stroll in the late evening.You will soon be able to meet Grandfather Twilight at the TanomaWetlandsEnvironmentalEducationCenter.
“Grandfather Twilight” will be Tanoma’s StoryWalk, with 22 stations, each a page from Barbara Helen Berger’s illustrated book for children. The StoryWalk program is a partnership between Indiana County Parks & Trails, Indiana Free Library, and Friends of the Parks.
Perhaps you have seen these StoryWalks at Blue Spruce Park, on the Ghost Town Trail, Memorial Park, and PineRidgePark.
StoryWalk is a program that combines fitness and literacy.The idea for StoryWalk originated in 2007 With Anne Ferguson, a volunteer with the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition.Children’s books are taken apart, laminated, and posted on stakes along hiking trails. Families combine reading an exercise as they follow the story along the trail
The original StoryWalk was a partnership between the Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, VT.
In IndianaCounty the project was spearheaded by Kate Geiger and Joan Rittenberger of the Indiana Free Library and Ed Patterson of IndianaCountyParks and Trails.
Evergreen Conservancy would like to thank Mr. Patterson and his maintenance crew for assembling the Grandfather Twilight story.
Fundraising Sale Items
Posted: 10. Dec. 2009 - 19:47
Please Note......If you wish to purchase the John McCombe prints on our fundraising page please contact us via e-mail. They are available. The paintings by Kamal are both sold. They are no longer available. Thank you for your support! The bidding is not functioning at this time.
Fesival of the Lights at Blue Spruce Park
Posted: 10. Dec. 2009 - 19:42
Evergreen Conservancy and it's volunteers manned the gates for the Festival of the Lights on December 18th. Thanks to all who helped and thanks to all who came out to see the lights.
