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How can consumers advocate for a climate-smart and local farm-centered 2023 Farm Bill?

It can be easy to get discouraged these days. Everywhere we look, there are signs of a struggling planet and, often, it’s difficult to see a clear path to an effectual response. 2022 may well eclipse recent years as the hottest on record. Rainfall has alternated between being absent or violent in Pennsylvania, one of

October 31, 2022

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Led by the Land: Designer of Longwood Gardens’ green wall to talk about landscape, sustainability

Longwood Gardens now boasts the largest green wall in North America. | Image via Frances Lincoln PublishersLongwood Gardens is well-known for its beautiful flowers and expansive gardens, but visitors may not realize that the horticultural center also boasts the largest green wall in North America. Designed as part of the new entrance space to the

October 26, 2012

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Community Meeting: The City Planning Commission wants your help in reshaping Philly

Image via images.google.comThe Philadelphia City Planning Commission is working on their Central District Plan and wants your input. Join them at two public meetings this month to discuss how the City’s downtown and surrounding neighborhoods will develop in the next 10 years. The meetings will be interactive to allow participants to help set priorities for

October 17, 2012

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The Power of Design: Eighth annual DesignPhiladelphia hosts sustainability events

The DesignPhiladelphia Festival is Oct. 10 to 14. For more information, visit designphiladelphia.orgThe eighth annual DesignPhiladelphia Festival is back in town this week, hosting events that showcase innovative design ideas around the city. Partnering with the University of Arts, DesignPhiladelphia aims to unite the entire design community in the city and provide a variety

October 9, 2012

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Soak it Up! Philly-centric competition on greening stormwater systems kicks off

A rainwater collection system at Springside School | Image via blog.cdesignc.org Rain gardens, green roofs, porous pavement—these are some of the techniques being used to green Philadelphia’s stormwater system. But can these tools also help revitalize the urban communities in which they’re installed? That’s what the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

October 5, 2012

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Rehab Project: Fishtown welcomes LEED Platinum building

The new YIKES storefront in Fishtown. | Image by Danni SinisiOn a corner of Girard Avenue in Fishtown sits a new milestone in green design and construction. The building—once a tavern before becoming vacant—is now the first LEED Platinum mixed-use rehab project in Pennsylvania. Platinum is the highest level for the LEED (Leadership in Energy

October 1, 2012

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Bettering the City: YIP presents third annual State of Young Philadelphia

A look at last year’s State of Young Philadelphia. Image via Young Involved Philadelphia Attention Young Philadelphians. Have innovative ideas that contribute to the growth of your city? Here’s your chance to make them a reality. Young Involved Philadelphia (YIP) is kicking off its third annual State of Young Philadelphia (SOYP) event this Thursday, Sept.

September 26, 2012

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Park(ing) Day 2012: City parking spaces transformed into public parks

Last Friday, 59 metered parking spaces got a temporary makeover in celebration of Park(ing) Day 2012. Park(ing) Day is a worldwide event to enhance public awareness of the need for more green spaces in our urban environments. Last year, Philadelphia had 30 parks. This year (the fifth for the city), there was a record-high 59

September 26, 2012

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Urban Sustainability Forum: Challenging the benefits of sustainable agriculture

On Oct. 18 at 6 p.m., the Academy of Natural Sciences will host the panel: Is Sustainable Agriculture Bad for the Planet?Does buying local food make a difference or just make you smug? Is organic overkill? Could factory farms be better for the planet than happy hogs, cows and chickens? On October 18 at 6

September 24, 2012

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Shale Gas Outrage: Join the rally against fracking

This week, the fracking industry is back in Philadelphia for their annual conference, giving citizen groups a great opportunity to voice their opposition to the controversial natural gas drilling technique. Like last year, the Shale Gas Outrage organization is working with the Philadelphia nonprofit Protecting Our Waters to lead a rally and march outside the

September 18, 2012

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Culinary Enterprises: A new hub for food entrepreneurs opens in West Philly

A look inside a kitchen at the new Culinary Enterprises Center in West Philly (Hao Wei Yang)Food entrepreneurs have a new home in West Philadelphia. This morning, The Enterprise Center (TEC) opened their new Dorrance H. Hamilton Center for Culinary Enterprises—a new initiative aiming to bring together the vibrant local food industry with the

September 14, 2012

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