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#183 August 2024

A pilot program shows the power of a modest guaranteed income

Imagine in the span of a year being badly injured in a car accident, suffering the loss of family members and discovering you are pregnant. After this happened to one Philadelphia woman, she was told she had been accepted into a study of how guaranteed income impacts quality of life. The gift of $500 a

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024

Slavery-free building products are possible if consumers demand them

Say you’re renovating your kitchen. You weigh the pros and cons of granite versus butcher block countertops, you compare different brands of convection stoves and you work through stacks of tile samples for the backsplash. You’re thinking mostly about style and function, and perhaps the sustainability of the materials, but how about slavery? Surely you

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024/Environment

New book compiles essays on the hidden environmental impact of America’s big box stores

When was the last time you got lost in Home Depot, or cursed the amount of time it took to walk from one side of Walmart to the other as you checked off the items on your shopping list? The term “big box” captures their shape, but possibly understates their scale. A Walmart Supercenter and

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024/Public Health/Race and Equity

Philadelphia isn’t prepared to help people struggling with addiction and homelessness, but that isn’t slowing down Mayor Parker’s plans to end Kensington’s open-air drug market

On May 8, the City of Philadelphia cleared a homeless encampment that stretched two blocks on Kensington Avenue between East Allegheny Avenue and Orleans Street under the Market-Frankford Line. This clearing marked the first step of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s five-phase plan to dramatically improve Kensington, whose residents contend with extreme poverty, open-air drug markets and

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024/Air/Energy/Environment/Water

Companies burning fossil fuels and tires to mine cryptocurrency are setting up shop in PA

What’s the size of a toaster and uses three times the energy of an average Pennsylvania household? That would be a cryptocurrency mining machine — a computer that runs 24/7 and spits out numbers in an attempt to solve complex problems, creating proof-of-work cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, as a result. “We have companies that have 80,000

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024/Urban Nature

In Mount Airy, fox lovers are (illegally) treating local animals for mange. An expert says it’s inherently dangerous and could backfire

It was a warm summer morning and shirtless, sweaty runners were just coming off the Wissahickon Trail. As they ascended out of the picturesque valley in Northwest Philadelphia to start the workday, a woman named Mary and two companions were heading the other direction, already getting down to business. Their mission looked a little like

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024/Editor's Notes/Politics

Editor’s Notes: Is Having Enough Un-American?

Remember Andrew Yang from the 2020 presidential debates? The current election cycle has been so frightening that you could be excused for forgetting the crowded Democratic primary stages of 2020, but Yang gained some headlines for backing a universal basic income (UBI) proposal he called the Freedom Dividend. Under his proposal, every American adult would

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August 1, 2024
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#183 August 2024

The Capitali$m Issue

Is capitalism inherently rotten, or do we just let it go too far? It can be hard for Americans to think critically about capitalism. If you want to know what water is like, don’t ask the fish, the proverb goes. Capitalism is the water we drink, the air we breathe. It is our state religion.

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August 1, 2024
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#182 July 2024/Climate-Change/Environmental Justice/Public Health

For our city to beat the heat, it’s going to take a whole lot of green

By Kyle Bagenstose and Adam Litchkofski If you’re reading this story when it’s still hot off the press, odds are you’re probably pretty warm yourself. Another July has arrived in Philadelphia, and they ain’t what they used to be. From 1939 through the end of the 20th century, Philadelphia’s average air temperature in this quintessential

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July 1, 2024
9 mins read
#182 July 2024/Public Health/Urban Nature

University of Pennsylvania researchers comb the forest floor to understand tick life cycles and the diseases they carry

Last week, I plucked a tick off the neck of a teenager I had guided on a canoe outing. (It came off easily, not having latched on yet.) Presumably the tick had climbed on as the teen had walked through some tall grass after the boats were put away. With single-minded determination, the tick had

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July 1, 2024
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