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Sustainability

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Wanted: Developers for two of Old City’s last undeveloped pieces of waterfront real estate

Delaware River Waterfront Corp. has opened request for proposals for two prime sites by the river, next to the future Penn’s Landing Park.

6 years ago

Willow Zef volunteers at the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden, established by Philly Socialists in 2012 near Lawrence and Norris streets. (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly is creating first-ever urban agriculture manifesto

City kicks off $125K urban agriculture plan to promote community gardens and farms. Interface Studio and Soil Generation picked to develop the plan.

6 years ago

Fourteen-year-old Jaysa Mellers speaking during the panel discussion among youth climate activists at the Drawdown Learn Conference.
(Courtesy of Omega Institute for Holistic Studies)
NPR
Education

Giving schools — and students — the tools they need In the fight to save the planet

If you want to get students fired up about climate change, poop is a good place to start.

6 years ago

Investors are spending billions of dollars to align their portfolios with their personal values. Above, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange on June 10. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

As investors try to be more ethical, some find no escape from businesses they detest

If you're an investor with ardent social beliefs — and you aspire to put your money where your mouth is — you're in luck.

6 years ago

In the forests near the southern Sumatran village of Krui, 48-year-old Marhana climbs up the trees to harvest damar, a resin used in paints and varnishes. These damar trees are part of something called an
NPR
Lifestyle

Could this tree be an eco-friendly way to wean Indonesian farmers off palm oil?

Agriculture experts see damar as a sort of anti-palm oil: a model to combat deforestation and climate change. These damar trees are part of something called an "agroforest."

6 years ago

A beach in Seaside Heights is completely submerged during the Thursday evening high tide. (Photo courtesy of Penny Ferone/Jersey Shore Hurricane News)
Down the Shore
Community

Nor’easter submerges newly replenished N.J. beaches

An ocean storm will continue to meander off the Middle Atlantic coast through Saturday, generating a strong onshore flow that will continue to lash New Jersey beaches.

6 years ago

Birds in the Delaware River watershed, like this great horned owl, are losing ground because of climate change impacts on habitat and food supply. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Changing climate means Pa. and N.J. state birds could disappear from the region

A new report from the National Audubon Society says Pa.'s ruffed grouse and N.J.'s American goldfinch could disappear.

6 years ago

Rashida Ali-Campbell on her lot on N 41st St. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Meet the woman turning a West Philly lot into an ‘Earthship’ made of tires and glass bottles

Rashida Ali-Campbell just won a three-year court battle over the control of the West Philly lot she wants to turn into an eco-home and oasis.

6 years ago

Grain farmer Jesse Poliskiewicz breaks open a pod of soybeans while on his farm Sept. 20, 2019, in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Amid Trump’s trade war, Pa. farmers fight to survive in an uncertain market

In the midst of the second harvest under the trade war, Pa. farmers discuss how the policy affects them and what it takes to survive in an unstable and uncertain market.

6 years ago

Listen 5:06
(Karlis Dambrans/Flickr)
Urban Planning

New effort to ramp up electric vehicle usage in N.J.

The state is moving to tackle one of its toughest climate action goals: putting 330,000 electric vehicles on the road in New Jersey in less than six years.

6 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science

Bucks, Montgomery counties will get $5 million to study health effects of PFAS

Residents in affected Bucks and Montgomery County communities will be eligible for blood testing as part of a national study on the effects of PFAS.

6 years ago

Protestors and city officials gather outside the DELCORA building in Chester to protest the Delaware County Regional Water Authority’s deal with Aqua America, Inc. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delco Dems: DELCORA sale is a typical bad, backroom Republican deal

Democrats in Delaware County slammed a deal that sees the merger of DELCORA with Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater as a deal among Republican insiders.

6 years ago

Climate activist Rafe Pomerance speaks at an event at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in Philadelphia on Sept. 12. (Photo courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

What longtime climate activist Rafe Pomerance wants you to know

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips sat down with Pomerance and asked him what he wants people to know right now.

6 years ago

Listen 5:34
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How one urban farm was lost: La Finquita’s finale

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Mayor Kenney returns from Puerto Rico disappointed by the federal government’s work

7 years ago

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