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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Housing advocates protest evictions in Philadelphia
Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia

Protesters demand Philadelphia halt evictions; 17 people arrested

Housing advocates and legal experts say it's uncertain how the CDC's federal hold on evictions will affect Philadelphia's own plans to resume tenant lockouts.

5 years ago

Remnants of crime scene tape
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Billy Penn

Neighbors beg for 24-hour patrols at violent North Philly corner, but police cite lack of resources

Research backs up the plea from leaders at Richard Allen Homes, who desperately want shootings to stop.

5 years ago

Temple University campus
Higher Education
Philadelphia
Public Health

Why did Temple reopen in person? Some wonder as COVID-19 outbreak forces changed plans

The university announced most classes will go online to limit the spread of the coronavirus on campus. The school has reported more than 200 active cases.

5 years ago

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Business
Delaware
Public Health

Delaware to allow beach bars to reopen for Labor Day weekend

Gov. John Carney had shut down bars in Delaware beach towns in early July after the state saw a spike in COVID-19 cases.

5 years ago

Customers eat in the outdoor dining area of the Rainbow Diner in Brick, N.J.
Business
Food & Drink
New Jersey

Tape measures, tapas on tap as N.J. indoor dining draws near

Thousands of New Jersey eateries are scrambling to prepare for indoor dining after Gov. Phil Murphy gave the go-ahead for the Friday change.

5 years ago

A crowd of protesters gathers in Rochester, N.Y., near the site where Daniel Prude was restrained by police officers in March. Prude, a Black man who had run naked through the streets of the western New York city, died of asphyxiation a week later.
NPR
National
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Protests in Rochester, N.Y., after bodycam footage released of Daniel Prude’s suffocation death

Daniel Prude was arrested by Rochester Police in the early hours of March 23, after his brother, concerned for Prude's safety, had called 911.

5 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics

‘A desperate plea for help’: Philly councilmember asks Kenney to declare gun violence emergency

Right now, Philly is “choosing to be helpless” when it comes to gun violence, says Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

5 years ago

The Park Bench, 1946, by Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946) (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Things To Do
Community Events
September 3 - 9, 2020

Tasting summer in Chestnut Hill, thriving drive-ins, and Bowie meets yoga in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Museums return, dining out in Chestnut Hill, drive-in movies and music

5 years ago

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Boxing champion Bernard Hopkins is honored on the new signage at the Boxers' Trail in Fairmount Park. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Public Spaces

‘I’m real hype’: Strawberry Mansion celebrates boxing heroes at Boxers’ Trail gateway reveal

The new entrance to Fairmount Park’s Boxers' Trail honors boxers Matthew Saad Muhammad, Bennie Briscoe, and former champion Joe Frazier.

5 years ago

People are silhouetted as they walk on Penn's Landing in view of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Philadelphia
Sports
The Philadelphia Tribune

Black groups endorse 76ers bid to build stadium along Delaware River waterfront

One Black leader said those organizations must pressure the Sixers to keep their commitments to ensure they’re not just hype if the project moves forward.

5 years ago

Kathryn Ott Lovell, commissioner at Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (far right), Gathered at East Passyunk Community Center with (left to right) Max, Ruby, and Kim Kindelsperger.
Kids
Outdoors
Public Health

What did summer camp look like this year in Philadelphia?

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with the Philly Parks and Rec Dept. and a parent of two about how the city held summer camp during COVID.

5 years ago

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Harriett's Bookshop
Business
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

At least 10 Black-owned businesses in Philly receive threatening, racist emails

“My heart dropped,” Shanti Mayers, owner of The Sable Collective, said of receiving an email threatening violence against Black business owners like her.

5 years ago

(Dan Nott/Spotlight PA)
Aging
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

Nursing home COVID-19 case, death data still missing from Pa.’s public reports

More than six months after COVID-19 arrived in Pa., the public still doesn’t have a full picture of how many people have died or been sickened by the virus in nursing homes.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump turns around after talking with law enforcement officials Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, as he tours an area damaged during demonstrations after a police officer shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. At left, Attorney General William Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf talk with police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Trump spins baseless tale of ‘thugs’ flying to protests

He has repeated conspiracy theories that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects.

5 years ago

Boelson Cottage at the Belmont Mansion became a critical stop on the underground railroad in Philadelphia. (Provided by Belmont Mansion)
The Why
History
Philadelphia

The Underground Railroad stop in Philly’s Fairmount Park

In the final installment of our series "Why didn't I go there?" take a virtual tour of Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park, once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Air Date: September 1, 2020

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