Pave the way for the Greenway

For one day, Spring Garden Street between 9th and 10th streets will be transformed into a vibrant commercial corridor. | Rendering courtesy Star Group
For just one day, a pop-up greenway will emerge on Spring Garden Street between 9th and 10th street. The block party will transform the parking lane on Spring Garden Street, creating a

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Sweet Cheeks

Rebourne’s upcycled and reusable diapers keep babies’ bums dry and reduce waste
A few times each year, Marni Duffy spends the day digging through bins of old thrift store sweaters at a warehouse outside of New York City. She looks for just the right type of soft, untreated merino wool to haul back to Philadelphia. There,

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High Class

Educators receive discounts at Oxford Mills' mixed-use apartments in South Kensington
Oxford Mills, a residential and commercial development, is a renovated former dye works factory. | Images courtesy D3 Real EstateLafeesah Waalee’s fell in love with the exposed brick of Oxford Mills apartments in South Kensington, but what sealed the deal for her was the opportunity

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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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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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Are You a Green Innovator?

Greenfest Philly, Clean Air Council looking for big ideas
Greenfest Philly, now entering its ninth year, aims to provide an inviting avenue for Philadelphians to engage with a more sustainably conscious lifestyle through small changes in the consumer and lifestyle choices they make every day. This year, Clean Air Council, the nonprofit responsible for organizing the

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