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Friday, August 22, 2025 3:00 PM 4:30 PM The Discovery Center (map) Google Calendar ICS Join us for any of four sessions where we will explore the connection between nature and art. Participants will ...
During this zine and collage workshop, participants will be able to re-contextualize the work in Friend of a Friend of a Friend exhibition During this zine and collage workshop, participants will be ...
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So how do we keep moving composting forward? Via the age-old process of organizing, advocating and holding our elected and city officials accountable.
Philly Unwrapped aims to address the ubiquity of single-use packing waste in food service establishments.
My first four columns covered different ways to collect food waste from residents. But collection is only the start. Once food scraps are collected, they need to be composted. This is where it gets ...
Despite being within a floodplain, residential living is coming to the Navy Yard for the first time this fall. Will it stand up to greater rainfall and sea level rise?
A new climate resiliency plan is in development for Philadelphia, with a new focus: community vulnerability. The work is being funded by $600,000 the Office of Sustainability (OOS) received in March ...
The offers come with a knock on the front door, a white envelope in the mail or a greeting from a fresh-faced salesperson at the farmers market. “Make the switch to clean energy.” But the rates ...
Will Caverly was one of the thousands of people who flocked to the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum during the COVID-19 pandemic. And like most of those people, he didn’t know much about ...
When Robert Thomas, 78, was 11 years old, he envisioned a hiking trail in Northwest Philadelphia that would follow the corridor of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s abandoned Fort Washington branch. He even ...
It has been five years since the pandemic disrupted Philadelphia’s recycling program, leading to service delays that stretched on for weeks and consigning the contents of so many blue bins into trash ...