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How Caitlin Cowan Found a Sustainable Career in The GREEN Program

What do you do after you fall in love with studying abroad while traveling? (For this gal, you have wanderlust for life and blog about your sustainable travels when you can.) However, Caitlin Cowan found a career that would help satisfy her craving for travel and sustainability. While the GREEN Program founder Melissa Lee will be speaking at our Careers In Sustainability Panel on March 28th, we…

Recap: Green Philly Careers in Sustainability Panel

If you’ve ever thought about a career in sustainability, my advice is: go for it. If I didn’t believe that before, I definitely believe it now after getting the lowdown from a few of the best in the biz. Green Philly recently held a career panel which featured four, amazingly talented professionals who all graciously shared little bits of their lives with the attendees. The panelists came from…

Emerging Sustainability Leaders Soiree: Join The GREEN Program this Thursday!

This Thursday, join the GREEN Program for their Soiree!

As they said from their website,

This April, The GREEN Program invites you to take part in the celebration of young emerging leadership in sustainability. Through this event, Emerging Sustainability Leaders Soiree, GREEN will be bringing together student leaders and like-minded organizations of the Greater Philadelphia area unlike any other…

April, the Green Month. April. Week Events April 6 – 9

Case of the Mondays again?

Don’t fret. Get ready to eat your face off with SPARC, race SEPTA, talk to candidates & influencers and rub elbows with young Philly leaders this week.

Philly Events for April 6 – 9, 2015

SPARC Sustainable Food Week: The goal of SPARC Food Week is to bring together students and professionals from the Philadelphia area who are passionate about the intersection between…

I was brimming with purpose and motivation, with an all-new GREEN support system of friends at my back.

This is an article I wrote recently about a life changing experience I had, almost exactly a year ago, with a bunch of amazing people in Iceland. Considering it is almost the anniversary of my trip, I figure it appropriate to share how, even after an entire year, and even though I may not have seen most of you since then, you all still motivate me to succeed. 

True LOVE: Why GREEN Program Chose Philly Over Big Apple

Caitlin Cowan, Global Communications Coordinator, is our new guest columnist from The GREEN Program. GREEN takes liked-minded students and young professionals from around the globe on short-term experiential education & career-focused abroad programs to the epicenters of clean tech, sustainability, and innovative industries in Peru, Iceland, and Philadelphia. 

Why do we love the City of…