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Why are Philly’s streets full of trash during Covid-19? City’s former Zero Waste and Litter Director weighs in.

Photograph courtesy of Unsplash.com By Nicolas Esposito  Our City Sanitation system is broken. It was broken before Covid-19 and the cracks are now beginning to give way to a full breakdown of the system due to the pandemic as both trash and recycling pickups are consistently delayed.  The reason my former office, the City’s Zero

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July 21, 2020
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Philly’s first Black-owned brewery has big plans on tap

Black is Beautiful collaboration cans. Photograph courtesy of Two Locals Brewing By Jaclyn Zeal While the craft beer renaissance has generated an uptick in breweries throughout Philadelphia (with as many as 16 new breweries opening in 2019 alone), Rich and Mengistu Koilor are on a mission to add to the city’s thriving beer scene by

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July 21, 2020
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Woodworker turns trees that fall in Awbury Arboretum into furniture  

Photography by Milton Lindsay Cutting Edge By Siobhan Gleason  When Greg Fuguet looks at a piece of storm-damaged lumber, he can already picture what shape it will take in its next life as a piece of art.  After years of woodworking, Fuguet has developed his observational skills. He can determine how a tree will need

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July 20, 2020
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Editor’s Notes: Long Overdue

If you can keep your cynicism in check, corporate displays of support for Black Lives Matter can seem admirable, sometimes even moving. When done authentically, companies are holding a mirror to themselves, deciding that they are not doing enough to address racial injustice, and committing to make change. Some of these vows are genuine and

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July 18, 2020
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COVID-19 pandemic peels back the curtain on meatpacking plants and the unsustainability of factory farming

Photograph courtesy of Unspalsh.com Meat your Maker By: Siobhan Gleason JBS meatpacking worker Carmen Dominguez is concerned about her co-workers’ health during  COVID-19. Her colleagues Wilbert Rivera and Enock Benjamin died from COVID-19 this April after 19 workers at the Souderton, Pennsylvania plant tested positive for the virus. Dominguez felt it was important to speak

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July 16, 2020
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Volunteer group rebuilds the canopy in the Wissahickon, one tree at a time

I don’t think i would have noticed that the patch of forest off Livesey Lane had been restored if Steve Jones, president of Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers (WRV), hadn’t told me. I visited the area on a humid morning in late May. The canopy was complete, shading out the sun completely. I heard the usual forest

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July 15, 2020
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The Sunrise Movement’s Abby Leedy talks Queer Eye, sustainability and the power of youth activism

Photograph courtesy of Netflix By Francesca Furey If you’ve been binging Netflix shows while social distancing at home, you might’ve come across Queer Eye’s 5th season — based right here in Philadelphia. The Fab Five spruced up the lives of 10 inspiring Philadelphians, including 19-year-old Abby Leedy, a staff organizer at the Sunrise Movement. The

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July 15, 2020
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Jefferson dean encourages students to make an impact without leaving a trace

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July 14, 2020
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This Black-owned, sustainable clothing company made a name for itself reimagining secondhand clothes—now it’s setting up shop in West Philadelphia.

Photography by Milton Lindsay Grant Blvd set to open first storefront this month By Gabrielle Houck When you walk into Grant Blvd’s new storefront in West Philadelphia, owner Kimberly McGlonn wants you to feel like you’re at home.  She says the sustainable clothing company’s new retail space is essentially a manifestation of the brand’s identity

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July 13, 2020
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Pennsylvania residents say Mariner East 2 pipeline project is contaminating their drinking water

Photography courtesy Lora Snyder Troubled Waters By Siobhan Gleason On February 12, 2018, Delaware County residents along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route received a letter from Sunoco Pipeline LP, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Operating LP, about a groundwater problem. Sunoco had punctured a local aquifer that residents of Edgmont Township relied on for

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July 11, 2020
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