Narberth Environmental Advisory Council

11/16/2024

Metal!!!! What to do with all your leftover bits of metal?? Metal is reusable forever so it’s great to keep it out of the landfill. I had been collecting household metal odds and ends since we moved to narberth—storm window frames, pipes, screws, screens, tomato cages etc—and finally took a load to some friendly people in Conshohocken who will give it another life. Felt great!

07/01/2024

Page 2 of Recycling Guide (see prior post for page 1!) Guess what? Narberth's new recycling and trash company takes a lot of items that our prior recycling company did not take, especially plastic. While *reduce* is the best way to go, Narberth's contract with Mascaro Company does include plastic recycling!

07/01/2024

Guess what? Narberth's new recycling and trash company takes a lot of items that our prior recycling company did not take, especially plastic. While *reduce* is the best way to go, Narberth's contract with Mascaro Company does include plastic recycling! (Guide part 1 of 2 pages)

06/16/2024

Making positive change happen in our happenin’ borough

05/04/2024

It took a village…er…borough, but Narberth did it! Congrats to all Narbs for saving this ecologically important piece of land from development and creating Elm Grove Park. What a great legacy for future generations! Immense thanks to neighbors, to Borough leadership, to DCNR, and to the Lower Merion Conservancy, all of whom were critical making it happen.

04/06/2023

Hi friends of electric vehicles,

I hope you're having a good holiday/spring break week. If you're a supporter of electric vehicle infrastructure, you may want to contact the Narberth Borough Council to express your support. Fred Bush, Borough Council President, can be contacted via email. .

Some research data, in case you want to bolster your argument with scientific buttressing :)

1) Climate change is already causing devastating impacts for millions of people around the world. https://www.wri.org/insights/2023-ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report-climate-change-findings

2) Transitioning all vehicles to electric is a necessary step in addressing climate change, since vehicle emissions contribute the single largest source of climate-altering pollution (https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions, https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars)

3) The only way for electric vehicles to become widely adopted is for charging infrastructure to be constructed in a widespread way in towns and cities across the U.S. (https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_infrastructure.html)

The latest IPCC report details the devastating consequences of climate change and highlights pathways to avoid dangerous and irreversible risks from rising greenhouse gas emissions.

03/24/2023

A few days ago, we got a reminder of how serious of a challenge climate poses for all of us. Luckily, there is a lot each of us can do locally and nationally to blunt the most harmful effects of climate change. Read on!

IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

02/16/2023

Great program, highly recommended.