Inside DE - Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge - DuPont Environmental Education Center (DEEC)
Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge at the
DuPont Environmental Education Center (DEEC)
The Botanical Garden at the Wilmington Riverfront
It is one of the most soothing, yet little known places in Wilmington: The Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge. This urban oasis is named for the environmentalist and former governor of Delaware who died early this year. This little viddie introduces you to this innovative wetland restoration project by looking at the botanical garden in the refuge. Take one step off the sidewalk and you'll be able to walk among flowers and plants like gray dogwood, cattails, and marsh grasses. There most certainly are several types of insects including dragonflies, bumblebees and crickets, but none are hostile. The gentle babble of the man-made waterfall is an enticing call to stay awhile, although the operating steel mill across the Christina River sometimes screeches like a car wreck long enough to ruin the mood. Regrettably, the garden is such a short stretch it is impossible to feel lost in the wild. But it's a good excuse to return again and again.
DuPont nature center opens in Wilmington
The 212-acre Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge and the $11 million DuPont Environmental Education Center that peers into the reclaimed swamp opened with great fanfare over the weekend. View article at
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Things to do in Wilmington DE
Hagley Museum and Library,
Nemours Mansion and Gardens,
Grand Opera House,
New Candlelight Theatre,
Delaware Art Museum,
Bellevue State Park,
Wilmington and Western Railroad,
Frawley Stadium,
Brandywine Creek State Park,
Delaware Theatre Company,
Rockford Park & Tower,
Can Do Playground,
World Cafe Live at the Queen,
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Rockwood Museum,
Russell W. Peterson Wildlife Refuge,
Alapocas Run State Park,
Delaware Children's Museum,
Old Swedes Church,
Concord Mall,
Wilmington Riverwalk,
The Playhouse on Rodney Square,
DuPont Environmental Education Center,
Saint Anthony of Padua Church,
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation,
Brandywine Zoo,
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Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park,
Casino at Delaware Park,
The Nomad Bar,
Delaware Children's Theatre,
Comegys Pub,
The Massage Center,
Kelly's Logan House,
Delaware History Museum,
St Hedwig Church,
Wilmington Applebee's,
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Wilderness Canoe Trips day trips,
Pleasant Hill Lanes,
Trolley Square/Westend,
Riverfront Market,
Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum,
Father Tucker Memorial Park,
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River Taxi,
Famous Jack's,
MOJO 13,
Kirkwood Applebee's,
Hak's Sports Bar,
Highlands Art Garage,
Stratosphere Trampoline Park,
Wilmington Trolley,
Rocco's Italian Grill and Bar,
Santa Fe Afterhours,
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Bayshore Kickoff Event
Spanning from Delaware City down to the City of Lewes, the Delaware Bayshore is an ecological paradise. Expansive coastal marshes, sandy shoreline, lush agricultural lands and shady forests provide habitat for a host of rare and common plants, animals and fish. The Bayshore Initiative takes a non-regulatory approach that continues the conservation commitment made over 40 years ago by Delaware's Coastal Zone Act. Due in large part to the legacy of former Governor Russell Peterson and decades of conservation efforts, most of the Bayshore's acreage remains undeveloped today, and more than 50% is formally protected as state, federal and private conservation lands.
Window on Wilmington May 27, 2015
Window on Wilmington
May 27. 2015 Show Summary
Renee Beaman and Charles Harris Jr. from The State Office of Volunteerism is discussed how this office is Delaware's primary resource for volunteerism and national service. SOV provides statewide leadership for the promotion and encouragement of volunteerism to persons of all ages, and coordinates a variety of volunteer events,
Carl Shaw from The Inspiration Space at The Wilmington Library discussed how this space is a mini-makerspace, where people can enthusiastically learn about and experiment with technology, entrepreneurship, and DIY activities.
Susan Lalli-Ascosi talked about St. Anthony’s Italian Festival which has been a tradition in Wilmington Delaware for over 50 years. Kenny Briscoe from the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs discussed the Greek Festival which is another Wilmington tradition and he also promoted the Jazz Festival which will kick off in the 2nd week of June.
John Harrod from The Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge talked about the 212 acres of tidal marsh adjoining the Christina River and this area is home to many types of birds, beavers, dragonflies, turtles, butterflies, other wildlife, and flowers. He discussed program that are available at the center free of charge and he also encouraged folks to come down to the center to learn about the wildlife that live there.
Pam Manocchio from The Grand talked about the return of Wilmington's Summer in the Parks. Last year, The Grand presented 330 individual artists in 96 events, serving over 4900 residents throughout the city with FREE arts activities
Walter Munk Lecture at University of Delaware
On April 25, 2016, Dr. Walter Munk spoke to a packed house at the University of Delaware’s Mitchell Hall, and attendees sat riveted to their seats as he discussed the evolution of his research during a special guest lecture.
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Former Delaware Governor Russell Peterson talks at the dedication of an environmental education center at the nature preserve named after Peterson. The 94-year-old died Monday night, February 21, 2011.
Energy and Sustainability Speaker Series, Koepf
Energy and Sustainability Speaker Series sponsored by the Stanton Campus of Delaware Technical Community College, Recorded on November 21, 2013.
Food Sheds/Water Sheds: Establishing Cross-disciplinary Collaborations in the Environmental Humaniti
McKay Jenkins, a professor of English at the University of Delaware, shares his take on what he's learned about the environment and what he's doing about it.
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Brownfields: From Redevelopment to Revitalization
The October installment of the University of Delaware Green Liaisons Sustainability Lecture was held on Oct. 26, 2016 with
Raymond Scattone, assistant professor of energy and environmental policy at the University.
Scattone spoke about his research through UD’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy regarding the link between environmental justice and brownfield revitalization.
Brownfields, properties that after being abandoned from commercial or industrial uses may suffer from the presence of hazardous pollutants, are disproportionately connected with lower socioeconomic status and minority populations. This often stems from the unequal ways in which these areas are developed.
2018 IMPACT Delaware Annual Conference: Keynote Speaker Steve Zimmerman Part 2
Keynote Speaker, Steve Zimmerman, Principal at Spectrum Nonprofit Services explores the intersections of urgency, opportunity, and sustainability during the 2018 IMPACT Delaware Annual Conference on Thursday, April 26, 2018.
UD sustainability manager addresses Green Liaisons lunch
A No-Waste Luncheon was held in the Perkins Student Center Gallery on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 as part of the University of Delaware's Campus Sustainability Day 2015.
The keynote speaker was Michelle Bennett, the recently hired sustainability manager for UD. She explained her background and vision for this new position.
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Cold Windy paddling in Delaware Veterans Day weekend 2011
Delaware Valley Green Building Council's Tristate Sustainability Symposium - Opening Remarks
In this video, opening remarks from the March 7, 2014 Tristate Sustainability Symposium in Philadelphia. Janet Milkman, executive director of the DVGBC, and Brad Molotsky, co-chair of the symposium, are featured
Energy and Sustainability Speaker Series: Andrew Zimmerman
The Energy and Sustainability Speaker Series is sponsored by the Stanton/Wilmington Campus of Delaware Technical Community College.
William W. Hay Seminar - 2016 04 21 - Allan Zarembski - University of Delaware
Fundamentals and Selected Technical Issues for High Speed and Heavy Axle Railroad Engineering
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This lecture addresses the engineering issues associated with heavy axle load and high speed railway track to include the load environment, the modes of failure, factors that drive engineering design and maintenance considerations, as well as a discussion of several selected track engineering problems to include rail fatigue and track buckling.
DENIN Distinguished Scientist Lecture: Pamela Matson
Pamela A. Matson presented the inaugural lecture in the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series sponsored by the Delaware Environmental Institute on October 30, 2014, at Gore Recital Hall on the University of Delaware campus. Her talk was titled Science for a Sustainability Transition: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution.
To help meet the needs of a still-growing and more-consuming human population while at the same time protecting the planetary life support systems, scientists are increasingly engaging in use-inspired fundamental research that both improves understanding and supports decision making. This talk will present the results of biophysical and social science research in an intensive wheat-growing region of Mexico to illustrate how new knowledge of the coupled human-environmental system, effectively linked to decision-making, can aid in a transition to sustainability.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, and lived there for ten years before moving with his family to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969 and was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, when he became the sixth-youngest senator in American history. Biden was re-elected to the upper house of Congress six times, and was the fourth most senior senator when he resigned to assume the Vice Presidency in 2009. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991, but advocated U.S. and NATO intervention in the Bosnian War in 1994 and 1995. He voted in favor of the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties. Biden led the efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, and the Violence Against Women Act. He also chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and in 2008, both times dropping out after lackluster showings.
In 2008, Biden was chosen as the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. After being elected Vice President, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending aimed at counteracting the Great Recession and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Iraq up until the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. His ability to negotiate with congressional Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation such as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, which resolved a taxation deadlock; the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved that year's debt ceiling crisis; and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending fiscal cliff. Biden was reported to have advised President Obama against approving the 2011 military mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, though he has disputed this. Obama and Biden were re-elected in 2012, defeating Republican businessman Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan. In October 2015, after months of speculation, Biden announced he would not seek the presidency in the 2016 elections. In one of the final acts of his term in January 2017, President Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.After completing his second term as Vice President, Biden joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Presidential Practice. As of October 2018, Biden was reported to be actively considering a 2020 presidential run, and a CNN poll placed him as the most popular potential Democratic presidential candidate.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)