The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

The Wissahickon’s dramatically beautiful rock formations—huge banded gneiss formed deep underground, garnet-studded schist that grace the foundations of so many homes—tell a great story of continents crashing into each other, mountains rising and falling, and time slowly revealing the Earth’s...

Though parts of Philadelphia are shaded by a beautiful canopy of trees, much of the city is not—and our overall tree canopy sadly declined 6 percent between 2008 and 2018. To address this, the city is creating an urban forest...

Paul Meyer presents an illustrated lecture on his recent botanical travels in northeast Kazakhstan. The world’s largest landlocked country, few travelers from the western world have visited this extraordinarily beautiful region, noted for its rich steppe and alpine flora. In...

The Green New Deal has been a source of extreme controversy ever since it was first proposed more than two years ago. But while a lot of ink has been spilled about the GND, few people know much about what...

Learn new poses and stretches, take in the beauty of the forest, and spend quality time together as a family at our first-ever family yoga program. Through songs and stories we’ll find our silly side, and through breath and movement,...

It’s time for spring cleaning! On March 16 we’re calling everyone who cares about nature to join the Schuylkill Center for a community cleanup day. We’ll be working along the roadside picking up trash, cleaning up fallen branches, and getting...