Welcome to Haverford Climate Action
Website Sponsored by
Haverford Township Civic Council
Haverford Township, PA
Your day-to-day choices make a difference!
This website has been created by the Haverford Township Civic Council with support from the Haverford EAC (Environmental Advisory Committee). The purpose of this site is to serve as a clearinghouse of information for residents so that they can make informed choices as they strive to live more sustainable lives.
Businesses or Houses of Worship can find additional information with the links (B and HoW).
Haverford Township Residents Taking Climate Actions
Contact us at the bottom of the page with your street, city, and climate actions so we can add your actions to the maps
Upcoming Events
Every Tuesday: Parks and Trails Volunteer Days, 9:30a-12p
Looking to make a meaningful impact in your community? Come get your hands dirty with us as we care for green spaces, plant trees, and remove invasive species. Together, we’ll help maintain vibrant, healthy ecosystems in our parks! No experience needed—just bring your enthusiasm and love for nature! All tools and supplies provided. Let's make a difference together! Register HERE Waiver HERE Donate HERE
PRC's Rain Barrel Workshops
PRC and Eastern Delaware County Stormwater Collaborative are partnering to present a free Watershed Education and Rain Barrel Workshop. Attendees will learn about the problems associated with stormwater runoff, ways to conserve water in their homes, and watershed friendly landscaping techniques. The workshop will also cover the basics of how to install and maintain a rain barrel.
Rain barrels will be provided to the first 25 registrants. Limit 1 rain barrel per household.
Financial and other support for this project has been provided by the Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Education Grants Program.
This workshop is free, registration is limited and registration is required,
May 14th, {Yeadon}, 6:30-8p, registration is limited, register HERE
May 22nd {Chester}, 6p, registration is limited, register HERE
May 27th {Upper Darby} 6:30-8p Registration limited, register HERE
June 3rd {Morton}, 6:30p, registration limited, register Here
June 17th {Haverfrod}, 6:30p, registration limited, coming soon
MAY 14th, 7pm: Backyard Composting Workshop [virtual] 7p
Learn how to reduce your waste by 20%, fight climate change and make free organic fertilizer in your backyard. Gwenn Nolan of Mother Compost will teach the basics of backyard composting and common issues for new composters. If you are a Haverford Twp resident, you will be eligible to purchase a compost bin for $30 after attending the workshop. FREE, registration is required. Register HERE
May 21st: How to Cut Fossil Fuels in Your Home [virtual] 7p
Planning to replace your heater or A/C? Heat pumps are one system that can do both and eligible for a tax credit. Modifying your home systems, especially HVAC, to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions is a pressing challenge to prevent climate change. Local experts will discuss heat pumps for HVAC, water heating and clothes drying, induction stoves that are 3x more efficient than gas and boil water faster than gas, and considerations when electrifying. Come and learn! FREE, registration required, HERE
May 28th: Reducing Impervious Surface/Capture Stormwater on Property [virtual] 7p
Homeowners can help control local flooding, filter pollutants contributing to downstream water pollution and help recharge groundwater by reducing impervious surface and capturing stormwater on your property. This can be done even if an expansion is planned. Options: rain gardens, bioretention, rain barrels, cisterns, permeable pavements, infiltration trenches. Free, registration required HERE
June 3rd: Simplified Approach to Stormwater Management-Small Projects {virtual} 7pm
Are you planning a building project that increases the cumulative increased impervious surface on your property to 500-1999 ft2 since 2005? If so, you will need to file a modified stormwater management plan that you can write yourself. Members of Haverford’s EAC will explain what paperwork is needed and how to do the calculations.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89953125310?pwd=WRWoBmbtYjCSbvCb4eaISptMoIx7sS.1 Meeting ID: 899 5312 5310
A password will be required to enter the Zoom room. It will be sent upon sign-up and on the day of the workshop in a reminder email. Free, registration required HERE
June 14th: Helpsy Clothing Drive, 9a-12p, (clean but unwearable OK)
Haverford Township is excited to host its first Helpsy Clothing Drive. For re-wear, reuse, and recycling, Helpsy accepts clothing, footwear, accessories, linens, luggage, and stuffed animals in any condition so long as they are clean, dry, and odorless. “Helpsy’s mission is to keep clothing out of the trash. 95% of what [Helpsy] collect[s] can be reused or recycled. Clothing is sold primarily for reuse where higher grades are resold to thrift stores in North America and other secondhand markets around the world. The lower grades can be turned into rags for industrial use or stuffing and insulation. Clothing reuse is a big deal and reduces the enormous environmental burden of the fashion industry.”
Lower lot of Haverford Township’s Admin Building (1014 Darby Road)
Enter off of Darby, exit onto Manoa
Bring items bagged (paper or plastic) or boxed
Aug 13th: Recycling Workshop, {virtual}
Aug 23rd: Haverford Paper Event
Aug 30th: Haverford EWaste event
Sept 6th: Delaware County Hazardous Waste Recycling Event
Oct 11th: Delaware County Hazardous Waste Recycling Event
Oct 20th: Food Choices for the Planet Workshop
Nov 12th: Recycling Workshop, tentative
Join the Hav-a-Rain Garden Team!
100 Rain Gardens in 10 Years! Be a part of the Hav-a-Rain Garden team for the next decade! We have many volunteers who help install our gardens but need a few more committed individuals who will help outreach, schedule, assess, design, order and care for plants, and stage and coordinate installation. Many hands make light work! Email havaraingarden@gmail.com and with the subject “Rain Garden Team” and tell us you want to join our core rain garden team and we will send you the link for this and future meetings. If you just want to volunteer for the installations and are not already on our signup genius list, use the subject “Volunteer for Rain Garden Installation” and we will add you to our list for fall installations (mid-September to mid-October). Our lead Organizer is stepping down after 10 years and we would love to keep this great program going!
Haverford property owners (including non-profits and businesses) can request an assessment to be considered for one of Hav-a-Rain Garden’s 5 fall rain gardens - e-mail your address & phone # to havaraingarden@gmail.com within the next couple of weeks. After that, you must respond to a signupgenius email to schedule your assessment. Only Haverford property owners (including non-profits and businesses) are eligible - high scoring assessments qualify to be offered a rain garden and sweat-equity is required.
Rain gardens, downspout planters and rain barrels can help you harvest your stormwater, reduce runoff and the resulting pollution associated with stormwater and reduce downstream flooding. The native plants used also create habitat for pollinators. To learn more, see https://www.dcva.org/Rain-Garden/.
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4 levels of Climate Action
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State and National Advocacy
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