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#186 November 2024/Community/Current Issue/Food/gardening

Local and state laws are making community ownership of gardens more attainable

At the Pulaski Zeralda Community Garden in Germantown, the air is thick with the scent of green onions and okra. These vegetables grow from some of the 38 plots, including one dedicated to a local women’s center. This season alone, the garden yielded blackberries, strawberries, tomatoes, okra, peppers, corn and collards. The garden participates in

November 1, 2024

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#098 June 2017/Community

Progress on protected bike lanes, but work remains amid tight budgets and critical neighbors

Stop and Go for Vision Zero by Justin Klugh In the hustle and buzz of an urban commute, we take our lives in our own hands. A driver’s grip on the steering wheel of a two-ton projectile at rush hour is capable of slipping, of getting distracted, of grabbing a phone. Cyclists, too, each day

May 31, 2017

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#098 June 2017/Community/transportation

Forging a trail for female cyclists in Philadelphia

Photo by Mark Likosky A Bike of One’s Own by Justin Klugh One journey started on a pair of bike tires, cruising over the flatlands of Lincoln, Nebraska. “On a dare, I got into bike racing in the fall of 2009,” says Nebraska native Elisabeth Reinkordt. It was cyclist Sidney Brown, a National Time Trial

May 31, 2017

3 mins read

#098 June 2017/Community/Food

The Pennsylvania Cheese Guild is Back

Photo compliments of Philadelphia Cheese Guild Education and advocacy are key for a growing industry with changing regulations by Alex Jones On a cold day between snowstorms in January 2016, cheesemakers and dairy advocates gathered in a Penn State agriculture sciences classroom. The small meeting—catered with leftover wheels from the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s cheese competition—marked

May 31, 2017

3 mins read

#098 June 2017/Community/Food

A chef and Navy veteran is still fighting the good fight

Illustration by Layla Ehsan Protecting and Serving by Brion Shreffler Ahead of another busy Saturday night at the now shuttered Rarest, Sean Ciccarone, 37, took to the streets on March 25 for the #DisruptMAGA (Make America Great Again) protest that coincided with a Trump rally at Independence Mall. It was just one of many marches/protests

May 31, 2017

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#095 March 2017/Community/education

One Art Community Center is an oasis of healing, learning and support in West Philadelphia

Photo courtesy of Hoshea Hart-Rogovin One Love by Alex Jones On an unassuming block of North 52nd Street in West Philadelphia, Malaika Hart and her family have spent more than a decade working toward their vision: an oasis of sustainability and healing where an abandoned lumberyard-turned-short-dumping-ground once stood. That vision has become One Art Community

March 1, 2017

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#095 March 2017/Community/education

Across neighborhoods, time zones and generations, RESPECT Alliance creates future leaders

Childhoods Lost and Found by Justin Klugh The Raymond Rosen housing projects at 22nd and Diamond streets in North Philadelphia were an unsettling place to be a child. Built in 1954 for residents with low incomes, they were in time swallowed by drugs, crime and disinvestment, all of which served as the backdrop for Connie

March 1, 2017

4 mins read

Comings & Goings/Community

May: Comings & Goings

Mayor Kenney’s Commitment to Protected Bike Lanes Gaining SupportAfter a February announcement by Mayor Jim Kenney to add 30 miles of protected bike lanes to Philadelphia’s streets (and an announcement to create Philadelphia’s first-ever department of Complete Streets), advocates are pushing for progress. The urbanist PAC 5th Square is actively fundraising in order to galvanize

May 6, 2016

3 mins read

Community

The future is now: six innovations from regional college campuses

story by Justin Klughillustrations by Nicholas Massarelli Furniture built from mushroom spores? Zero-energy houses? Dreamers and doers at our region’s colleges and universities are committing to a sustainable future where clean air and water, sensible energy use and social entrepreneurship are the norm. Here are six of the many products and services we saw that

May 6, 2016

4 mins read

Community

Summer Camps: Franklin Institute’s Discovery Camp

by Marilyn Anthony For inquisitive kids who can appreciate the magical aspects of science, it’s hard to imagine a more engrossing summer playground than the Franklin Institute. FI’s summer Discovery Camp boasts, “We have FUN down to a science” and the extensive, imaginative programming seems to support their claim. The Science Adventures program kicks off

May 6, 2016

1 min read

Community

Summer Camps: The Hacktory

by Marilyn Anthony The hacktory’s staff believes that the best way to understand things is by “repurposing, decoupling, breaking and rearranging them from their intended use.” It’s fitting that the Hacktory Summer Camp is a “do-ocracy,” repurposing “democracy” just as the West Philadelphia nonprofit organization created its name by melding “hack” and “factory.” There’s more

May 6, 2016

1 min read

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