Welcome To Cosmo's World. The Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Program has a new interactive education program now online featuring Cosmo the flying squirrel and Terra the river otter to help teach students about biodiversity, invasive species, endangered species and climate change.
Cosmo and Terra are featured in four online videos that introduce the topics. Teacher's Guides accompany each video with a lesson plan and related student activities. This video is on biodiversity.
Cosmo's World is produced by the Wild Resource Conservation Program and public television station WLVT Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (PBS 39) to help classroom teachers and environmental educators teach these elementary school science topics in a fun and engaging way.
Visit the Cosmo's World webpage for more information.

Organic Green Revolution. Kutztown-based Rodale Institute this week released a research paper reviewing replicated research that shows the latest scientific approaches in organic agriculture offer affordable, immediately usable and universally accessible ways to improve yields and access to nutritional food in developing countries. "The Organic Green Revolution" paper is available online.

Nature’s Keepers, an inspirational documentary film about Pike County’s 150-year history of land stewardship and those who are continuing that legacy today, will air on public television station WVIA-TV in Scranton January 5 at 7:00 p.m.

“Pike County has a proud history of conservation,” says Sen. Lisa Baker (R-Luzerne), who makes a cameo appearance in the film. “It started with the pioneering efforts of Gifford Pinchot, and continues today through others willing to take an active role in protecting our natural resources.  Nature’s Keepers salutes Governor Pinchot’s legacy and the continuing legacy of those following in his footsteps.”

 “We have a unique conservation history in Pike County and Nature’s Keepers shares the stories of some of the people who are continuing that legacy. We are delighted that WVIA will present the first public television broadcast of the film,” says Nature’s Keepers’ Executive Producer Sean Strub.   Visit the Nature's Keepers website. 

Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling. Get an inside look at a drilling operation looking for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation on the Downey Farm and other properties in Susquehanna County, courtesy of this video from the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre. Watch the Video (Mircrosoft Explorer best)
Visit the special Marcellus Shale webpage at the Times Leader newspaper for more information.

Meadville Market House supports local farmers by providing a customer-friendly market for local agricultural produce. The market is administered by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council which recently received a $41,200 First Industries Agricultural Planning Grant to further promote the market. Visit the Meadville Market House website for more.