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We’ve already laid the foundation for a Green New Deal in Philadelphia. We just need the will—and the cash—to make it happen.

When Jerome Shabazz started Overbrook Environmental Education Center (OEEC) in 2002, he set about transforming a former EPA brownfield site into a community space where the neighborhood could connect with nature. Today, it’s a verdant oasis on Lancaster Avenue’s commercial corridor. “It’s the intersection of environment, public health and community,” Shabazz says. But OEEC doesn’t

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An Invasive Pest May Kill Most of Philadelphia’s Ash Trees–But Hope Remains For Their Future

Around 200,000 ash trees stand in the city of Philadelphia’s watershed parks. But in the next five to 10 years, most will be gone—killed by the emerald ash borer, an invasive species of beetle that has destroyed tens of millions of American ash trees in the Midwest and Northeast since it arrived in Detroit from

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Entrepreneur and farm owner team up to kickstart fiber supply chain in Pennsylvania

When costume designer Heidi Barr looks out the window of her Wissahickon home, she doesn’t see rowhouses, paved streets, parked cars and tidy front yards. Instead, she envisions the Northwest Philly neighborhood as it would have looked 200 years ago, when lush fields dotted with farmhouses sloped toward the banks of the Schuylkill River. Back

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Fertile Grounds: Two Philadelphia public schools demonstrate how to get food waste out of landfills and educate the next generation at the same time

By Alexandra JonesOn the two-acre Henry Got Crops urban farm at W.B. Saul High School in Roxborough, it’s easy to forget you’re still in the city. Lambs frolic near their mothers on green pastures while ruddy-colored cows placidly chew their cud. Salad greens grow green, purple, and red in tidy rows, destined to be harvested

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Reclamation Act: A grieving widow transforms discarded objects into arresting works of art in her new life as an internationally acclaimed artist

by Alexandra JonesIf things had gone the way she wanted, Carla J. Fisher probably wouldn’t have become an artist. Instead of working away in her bright, colorful studio on Cherry Street Pier, starting new pieces in between boxing up art destined for buyers in South Korea and exhibitions in Luxembourg, the 60-something woman might still be

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Gardens from A-Z

Philadelphia is America’s Garden Capital, with a whopping 36 public gardens within 30 miles of the city—a distinction that no other city in America can claim. Peruse our guide to these glorious green spaces to plan your next garden trip. 

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