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by Alexandra W. JonesWhen Facundo Lucci walks into the Reading Terminal Market, he smiles and waves at his fellow vendors. Like a few people there, he runs a deli. But unlike the others, he’s managing an entirely plant-based stall.He runs Luhv Vegan.

by Kim PostProgram Manager Alon Abramson calls his workplace “basically a startup.” In many respects it looks like a typical government office, but the youthful employees, generous space and handsome street view adds a certain vitality. The Philadelphia Energy Authority promotes clean energy in the city, helping city departments, businesses and homeowners through a variety of

by Claire Marie PorterOn half a city block of pavement in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, the kindergarteners of Richard Wright Elementary school play. One group hula-hoops, another plays kickball, while another waits in line to scooter-board from cone to cone. The playground is peaceful, there is nothing remarkable—which is perhaps what’s most remarkable. 

by Claire Marie PorterAbove a desk in an airy second-floor studio in Roxborough hangs a yellowing square photograph of a small girl with a curly pixie cut working a child-sized blue sewing machine.“I’ve been sewing since I was a baby,” says Heidi Barr, smiling at the shot. 

by Claire Marie PorterReborn with the help of blood, sweat and compost, a set of abandoned tennis courts in Germantown have been given a new lease on life.Owned by Germantown Friends School, the half-acre plot of land at 5407 Wissahickon Avenue containing the Old Tennis Court had sat unused since the 1980s.

by Constance Garcia-BarrioMT. Rushmore would give a truer portrait of our nation’s makers if the sculptor had hewn kinky hair and a shapely eye into George Washington’s massive left cheek and a second eye, a pug nose, and luscious lips into the right side of Thomas Jefferson’s face.

by Randy LoBassoThis February Philadelphia City Council members held a hearing on whether or not to bring dockless e-scooter sharing into our transportation fold. With two e-scooters sitting in the chambers, citizens, company representatives and city employees filed in to give their arguments and testimonies for and against the new take on an old form