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#201 February 2026/Climate-Change/Community/Environmental Justice/Public Health

Philly-area environmental justice groups are finding resilience in the wake of federal funding cuts

It was going to be transformational. A place for neighbors to shelter during extreme heat or cold. To receive relief and support after natural disasters. To learn about large forces like climate change and environmental justice and understand how they intersect in this corner of South Philly called Grays Ferry. The building would host teach-ins

February 1, 2026

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#004 May 2009/Community/Food/gardening/Public Health

Feature: The Most Important Meal

A local teen finds success by growing healthy foodby Dana HenryThe school bell rings and teenagers fill the entrance halls of University City High School. Many are running and some are calling out to their friends, relieved from a long day of classes. A young man apologizes to the woman at the front desk who

May 1, 2009

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#002 March 2009/Community/Public Health

Environmental Effects

Patients as Person, City as Healer?by Nathaniel PopkinIn the earliest days of the Center for Community Partnerships at Penn, a project I was a part of for a few years in the mid-’90s, we considered (but never executed) a “misery/happiness index” for West Philadelphia. The index was an idea of the historian Lee Benson, the

March 1, 2009

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Philly-area environmental justice groups are finding resilience in the wake of federal funding cuts

Feature: The Most Important Meal

Environmental Effects

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