Between Two Rivers and a Creek: Exploring our Kinship with the Blue World

Established in 2015, it is bioPhilly's mission to promote the important link between human health and the meaningful daily experience of wild and bio-diverse nature in the city. We engage with our fellow citizens towards realizing our dream of an urban habitat tapestry, which reaches across the city - on the ground, on building facades and across rooftops - connecting the Delaware to the Schuylkill River.

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Join us for an evening celebrating water as a source of life, health and inspiration.  Tickets now $15-$27.   Walk-in welcome!

The Discovery Center

From the Delaware to the Schuylkill, from the Schuylkill to Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia is blessed with an extraordinaily watery location.This year, we are joined by a wonderful group of experts who work and create with water. From regional planning and blue urbanism to habitat-generating water resources engineering, from community water resource engagement to ecological storytelling, speakers and artists will inform and inspire us toward a paradigm shift in our own relationship with water.Speakers:<a href="https://www.melioradesign.com/michele-adams" title="https://www.melioradesign.com/michele-adams" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Michele Adams </a>(Meliora Design)<a href="https://www.biophiliccities.org/abouttim" title="https://www.biophiliccities.org/abouttim" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Timothy Beatley</a> (Biophilic Cities)<a href="https://www.stacylevy.com/" title="https://www.stacylevy.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stacy Levy </a>( Environmental Artist)<a href="https://watercenter.sas.upenn.edu/people/jazmin-ricks" title="https://watercenter.sas.upenn.edu/people/jazmin-ricks" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jazmin Ricks </a>(The Water Center at Penn)<a href="https://www.dvrpc.org/executivedirector/" title="https://www.dvrpc.org/executivedirector/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ariella Maron</a> (Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission)Water is life, representing 80-90% of plant biomass and 75% if our body. Research indicates that natural water sounds are the most effective in attracting our attention, reducing heart rate , and restoring cognition, memory recall, and creative thought.bioPhilly 8 will explore the public health imperative of designing with water and leaning into our deep evolutionary connection to water as a precursor to stewardship of our waterways on behalf of those living alongside, within, and flying above. We will begin the evening with a networking Happy Hour from 5-6 pm, serving drinks and delicious light fare, this year infused with Stacy Levy’s beautifully watery installations… Great Blue Heron photo above by Joshua J. Cotten|Unsplash

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