{"id":352721,"date":"2025-11-03T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352721\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:50:16","slug":"philadelphias-senior-environment-corps-tracks-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352721\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s Senior Environment Corps tracks pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Staying busy and leaving a positive legacy<\/p>\n<p>Meyer, 71, volunteers with the Senior Environment Corps because he wants to keep raising awareness about environmental issues \u2014 and stay busy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe horrible lure of retirement is to do nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s no good because you just end up vegetating at home, watching daytime TV, and I don\u2019t want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The more than dozen volunteers keep active. Some wade into streams to collect water samples, while others test samples in the lab. Some teach kids how to identify <a href=\"https:\/\/stroudcenter.org\/macros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aquatic critters<\/a> and others do research.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer and Schogel say there\u2019s a role for everyone, and the group is always looking for new members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re breathing, we want them,\u201d Schogel joked.<\/p>\n<p>Schogel, 85, has been involved with the group for close to three decades. The retired social worker sees it as another way to leave a positive legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a wealthy fellow, and I don\u2019t have any money to leave behind to any groups or even my family,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I can leave a better world and hopefully inspire people to do something in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group meets monthly at a senior center in Philadelphia\u2019s Germantown neighborhood called the <a href=\"https:\/\/centerintheparkphila.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center in the Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Lundy-Wade, 74, retired from a career as a health inspector and educator. She thought her \u201cbiggest\u201d activity at the center would be playing Scrabble, but was excited when she found out about the Senior Environment Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018They\u2019re seniors that love and do the environment?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201c\u2018I want to be one of them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staying busy and leaving a positive legacy Meyer, 71, volunteers with the Senior Environment Corps because he wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,55147,8288,1448,2830,1311,141696,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,49740],"class_list":{"0":"post-352721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-growing-golden-aging-with-purpose","10":"tag-microplastics","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-streams","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115486092432969919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}