A few years ago, Tariq Mangum was concerned he wasn’t giving his body the nutrition it needed. “I don’t eat a lot,” Mangum says of his personal diet. “I probably eat two meals a day.” So he started researching ways he could enhance the quality of his diet, finally settling on homemade smoothies to supplement
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It’s not often that the words “mud pit” and “arts festival” are uttered in the same breath, unless you live in East Kensington. Then it’s an annual tradition. Every year since 2006, a few dozen teams—ranging in size from solo operations to 15-person school squads—design and parade quirky floats throughout a neighborhood obstacle course.
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More than 80 percent of the world’s flowering plants require a pollinator to reproduce. If we lost just the plants that bees pollinate, we’d risk losing all of the animals that eat those plants, creating a domino effect on the food chain. In fact, a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population!Pollinators
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If the physic garden at Pennsylvania Hospital hadn’t offered me a silent lesson, I might have remained distraught. At 71, I needed a total knee replacement, the surgeon said, mere months after a hip replacement. “Yes, it’s more painful than hip replacement because the knee has more nerves,” the surgeon replied to my question. “The recovery’s
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You don’t have to be a millionaire to enjoy art. It’s for everyone. Art for the Cash Poor was conceived with that idea in mind, knowing that financial barriers often keep people from even considering buying art.Started 19 years ago by InLiquid, a Philly-based nonprofit that works to create opportunities for visual artists, Art for
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In June 2015, the Vatican produced a 184-page papal encyclical calling for all people to take responsibility for caring for the planet on which we live. “Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home,” was a clear message that Pope Francis was choosing to refocus the Catholic Church on an issue it had long left
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In 2005, Judith Robinson was fed up with the litter and illegal dumping plaguing her North Philadelphia neighborhood. A real estate broker and grandmother of two, Robinson refused to accept the status quo of garbage-filled lots, and she took her concerns to community meetings—as well as into her own hands.First, she noticed groups of teenagers
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Delaware River City Corporation, the organization tasked with implementing the 11 miles of trails that will connect Port Richmond and Torresdale via the North Delaware Riverfront Greenway, will now be known as the Riverfront North Partnership, with the North Delaware Riverfront Greenway renamed as Riverfront North.The change comes as longtime executive director Tom Branigan announces
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The past and the future are calling Judy Wicks.First, on April 13th, she’s going to attend a statewide rally in Harrisburg against pipelines, fracking and “the greed and ignorance that impedes clean energy alternatives.”
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On Wednesday, April 11, The Sustainability Nexus hosts the second installment of the Urban Regeneration Forum. This free session, which also doubles as a part of Temple University's Campus Sustainability Week, focuses on the theme “Resiliency.”The term “resilience” has become commonly used in regards to sustainability and as a response to climate change – how
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