Environment & Sustainability

Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Panamanian postage stamp commemorating Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize

What We’re Talking About

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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Science on Tap audience members

Blowing Up Glaciers (Just a Bit!): Geophysical Investigations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability

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Plate No. 20 Poisonous Reptiles and Insects

What We’re Talking About

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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If You Smell Something, Say Something

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Styrofoam, a Practical and Problematic Creation

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Tummy Trouble

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
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Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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Concrete Solutions

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Greetings from Isotopia

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Joseph Priestley Society Symposium

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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Broad Street Review: Eve of Destruction
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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

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Brown Bag Lecture: Community-Based Air Monitoring as Moral Repair: Understanding the (In)significance of Monitoring Data for Refinery-Adjacent Communities

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CBS: Elements of Life and Death at Chemical Heritage Museum
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Juan Felipe Moreno

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Simone Müller

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Lucas Müller

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Rebecca Ortenberg, a program associate in the Institute's Institute for Research. Photo by Emma Lee, WHYY.

NewsWorks: Audio tour highlights historic preservation flash points in Philly's Old City
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The Chemical Heritage Foundation Presents New Exhibition and Walking Tour—Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart: An Interview with Exhibition Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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First Friday: The Science of Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

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Things Fall Apart Exhibition Opening

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The Message of the March for Science

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History Lab
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Saturday Speaker Series
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First Friday: Science History Tournament

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A white rhinoceros in Lake Nakuru, Kenya.

Can Biotech Save the Rhino?

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Insectoline

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

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WikiSalon
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Guided Tours
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Smog in Tiananmen Square

Is the Smog Out?

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Brown Bag Lecture: What Clean Smells Like: Commercial Chemists and the Politics of Women’s Work in the Mid-Century United States

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
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Student Journal (PDF)
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Hearing Tracking Sheet (PDF)
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The Case of Plastics: Teacher’s Manual
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Imagining a Postcarbon Future

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Science on Tap: “Plague, Famine, and Death: The Terrifying History of Comets”

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Science on Tap audience members

Science on Tap

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Frank Zelko

Frank Zelko

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TOMS and SBUV on display at the Institute. Photo by Gregory Tobias.

TOMS and SBUV
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Maximilian Ringelman Smoke Charts, 1897. The Institute Collections.

Ringelmann Smoke Charts
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Munsell Book of Color, 1940s. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Munsell Color Charts
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Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph, the Institute Collections

Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph
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Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer, ca. 1956.

Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer
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Horiba pH meter. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Horiba-Mexa 200 CO Analyzer
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Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

Hach Classroom Drinking Water Kit
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Millipore portable water-testing kit. The Institute Collections. Photo by Conrad Erb

Field Water Testing and Analysis Instruments
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Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
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Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
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Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
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