One Step At a Time

What a sustainability leader learned walking from Boston to San Diego

Considering a green career? You might research the field by hiking it. In 1978, I crossed the U.S. entirely on foot through forests and desert, along a maze of quiet dirt and gravel roads, by day and at night, in rain, hail and blasting sunshine.

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Birdland

Backyard chickens have been illegal in Philadelphia since 2004. It's time for that to change.
Bailey Hale and his (now) husband Thomas McCurdy, a pastry chef, were happily tending to their flock of hens and chicks in South Philadelphia, an area they had lived in for 10 years. They owned their house and the lot

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Get Schooled by Nature

Maybe you’ve been learning how to tell your silver maples from your reds, or you’ve been psyched to see the monarchs starting to flutter by on their way down to Mexico, or you’ve been trying to learn more about those native sparrows on your smartphone bird identification app. Ready to take your knowledge of urban

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Rival Bros’ Touts Locally Sourced Sweets

Small-batch coffee roaster sources great food locally
For Damien Pileggi and Jonathan Adams, owners of Rival Bros coffee roasters, choosing to source locally was a no-brainer.
“Local food makes a ton of sense,” Adams says. “Really, it’s just eating the way our great grandfather’s ate: you eat what is around you.”
Adams and Pileggi took that notion to

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Mock Up

Neat, a natural meat alternative, was created two years ago by Phil and Laura Lapp, who were looking for a healthy, animal-free protein to satisfy their two vegetarian daughters. | Photo courtesy neat
Local companies produce fresh, responsibly made meat substitutes
The average American consumes nearly 200 pounds of meat in a year. While we can’t say for certain

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Cheap skin care—but at what cost?

 
A sample of microbeads collected in Lake Erie. | Photo courtesy 5gyres.org
Microbeads in beauty products are causing big problems in lakes, rivers and wrecking havoc on our skin, too
While companies might not even list them on the label, microplastics (or microbeads) are a common ingredient in thousands of today’s beauty products, including skin-exfoliating cleansers

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Household Name

Postgreen’s new green building project Awesometown aims to live up to its name 
Erin Witman wasn’t planning on becoming a homeowner when she walked into Fishtown’s Lloyd Whiskey Bar one evening after work in March. But a colleague had encouraged the real estate professional to stop by for the launch party of Awesometown, a collection of

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Class Action

 
Haddington Woods is the first place students of a free land management class will test what they've learned. | Photo by Jen BrittonFree land management course teaches citizens to take care of their forests

Twenty-five Philadelphians gathered this past June to learn how to manage their forest. But many of those who met at the Haverford

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Food Entrepreneurs Wanted for Restaurant Incubator

Common Table aims to shepherd restaurateurs, chefs and local food pioneers to develop their dreams
Entrepreneurs are invited to test their restaurant ideas at Philadelphia's first pop-up restaurant incubator, Common Table, set to launch this fall.
Aspiring restaurateurs, creative chefs and local food pioneers will develop their dream restaurant from concept to creation backed with professional support

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Tools of the Trade

 
West Philly Tool Library is mounting an ambitious $10,000 crowdfunding campaign using Indiegogo to increase its capacity for a rapidly growing community of members.
West Philly Tool Library crowdfunds to bolster community 
“We say we have about 3,000 tools, but we actually haven’t counted in a while,” says Peter Foreman Murray, executive director of the West Philly

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