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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Studio 2 Extra: Triple Bottom Brewing: Beer, people and planet

Triple Bottom Brewing in Philadelphia gives fair-chance jobs to the formerly incarcerated and housing insecure. Tess Hart, the small craft brewery's co-founder, joins us.

Air Date: May 2, 2025 10:00 am

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a large farm
Community

Philly-area farmers among hundreds impacted by Trump admin’s gutting of climate-friendly grants

A grant of $59 million would have helped hundreds of farmers in the Mid-Atlantic adapt to climate change. The Trump administration called the funds a “green new scam.”

11 months ago

Listen 1:18
Joan Craver cleans shoes
Science

Philly volunteers are fighting textile waste for Earth Month — 1 clothing bin at a time

Millions of tons of fabric waste are sent to incinerators or landfills every year, where they can release climate-warming greenhouse gases.

11 months ago

Listen 1:20
Volunteers at New Jersey’s beaches last year
Science

Thousands of bottle caps, plastic pieces littered New Jersey beaches last year, report finds

Though the number of plastic bags found on New Jersey beaches has declined, overall plastic waste persists.

11 months ago

Listen 1:17
Kimberly McGlonn shows Susan Phillips cloth
Science

Climate Fixers: One Philly designer knits nature and fashion for sustainability

NOOR by Grant Blvd, a Philly-based fashion house, uses only natural, plant-based fibers like Tencel and linen, or wool. None of the materials are sourced from fossil fuels.

1 year ago

a goat standing by a Christmas tree, a man and two children
Community

Turn your Christmas trees into snacks for goats with the Philly Goat Project

Live Christmas tree donations will help feed the four-legged friends with the Philly Goat Project throughout the winter months.

1 year ago

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PlanPhilly
Science

Shopping online for gifts this month? Here’s what packaging can be recycled in Philly

Online purchases are delivered with lots of packaging. Here’s what to do with bubble wrap, plastic mailers, packing peanuts and more.

1 year ago

Listen 1:01
A view of the Delaware River.
Science

Conservationists celebrate more than 200 federally funded projects to restore waterways in Delaware watershed

The program funds habitat restoration and conservation initiatives throughout the Delaware River watershed.

1 year ago

Listen 1:14
a plate of Thanksgiving food
Science

What’s the best way to dispose of leftovers this Thanksgiving?

Between Thanksgiving and New Year's, there is about a 25% increase in food waste, according to the nonprofit organization the Ecology Center.

1 year ago

Listen 1:16
Matthew Addonizio and Loran Grishow-Schade smile
Science
Billy Penn

South Philly’s first new fabric shop in decades embraces ‘slow fashion’

Newly opened on South Fourth Street, Approved Textiles embraces the humanity of fashion.

1 year ago

A flock of geese fly past a smokestack at a coal power plant near Emmitt, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Studio 2
Politics & Policy

Climate policy under a second Trump presidency

President-elect Trump has called climate change a hoax, led his supporters in chants of “drill baby drill” and said he’d pull out of the Paris climate agreement.

Air Date: November 14, 2024 12:00 pm

Listen 50:21
Drexel University
Arts & Entertainment

Arts and culture leaders to gather at first-ever Cultural Dynamics Summit at Drexel University

The day-long event, hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, will explore the intersections of culture and politics in the city.

1 year ago

headquarters of American Water
Weather

NJ American Water customers under a mandatory water conservation order

The notice comes after the state declared a drought warning Wednesday as the region faces record-low rainfall, leading to the driest conditions in the past 120 years.

1 year ago

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PECO truck in the foreground, PECO worker in the background
Science

PECO to purchase energy from what will be the largest utility-based solar procurement in Pa.

The project will be just 1% of PECO’s total energy mix, enough to provide electricity to 3,000 homes. But climate activists see it as a win and good first step.

1 year ago

Listen 1:36
Emma-Lynn Melvin smiles in the rain garden
Education

Schoolyards in Philly will get rain gardens thanks to a federal grant

The Nature Conservancy wants to prevent stormwater runoff from schoolyards by building rain gardens that also provide relief from the heat.

1 year ago

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