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Stemming the Tide: How Philly Is Preparing for Floods in a Changing Climate

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Join us for the next Academy Town Square, as WHYY’s Maiken Scott moderates a powerful conversation with city officials and community organizers working together to build neighborhood-level resilience plans to tackle urban flash flooding. Learn how grassroots and institutional efforts are converging to protect communities like Germantown — now among the most vulnerable in the nation to urban flash flooding — from the growing impacts of climate change. The conversation will invite audiences into Philadelphia's historic watersheds to explore how the city's past informs its future and how stakeholders like you can help