Articles Written by Julie Hancher

What’s a Neighborhood Champion? Someone (or a group) who helps further change in his or her own neighborhood. As we count down the days until SustainPHL happens, we’re excited to find our about the sustainable changes these nominees live and breathe everyday,...

Summer is officially here! What better way to enjoy the bounty of our city’s farms than an evening spent outdoors, enjoying locally sourced, farm-fresh food, live music, and classic lawn games, all against the backdrop of the beautiful Weavers Way...

We’re getting excited for SustainPHL on August 18th. With an all-star nominee lineup, Who’s behind the event and organizing it? Julie Hancher: You guys know me as co-founder & Editor of Green Philly Blog. Aside from avid bourbon taster, explorer...

SEPTA is FINALLY getting ready into the 21st century as they slowly prep to say goodbye to those darn tokens. Yesterday, SEPTA began to provide the SEPTA Key Card for up to 10,000 “Early Adopter” riders for a weekly or monthly...

Now that we announced the SustainPHL 2016 nominees online here, it’s now time to get tickets for the summer’s biggest sustainable event! SustainPHL is an awards ceremony and celebration of sustainability visionaries to unsung heroes making a difference in their communities. Green...

After opening nominations for our first-ever SustainPHL awards, we were overwhelmed by over 180 nominations! Thank you to everyone who nominated a Philly changemaker or local hero. We read so many amazing stories, and it was difficult to narrow the...

Let’s talk about trash. Vocal performer Martha McDonald is performing the “Songs of Memory and Forgetting,” premiering June 12 (due to a rain-out on June 5th) at RAIR’s (Recycled Artist in Residency) headquarters at the Revolution Recovery recycling facility in Northeast Philadelphia....

Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination for a sustainability leader or unsung hero! Stay tuned – we’ll announce finalists for the SustainPHL nominees soon!

Alexandria Schneider & Maria Serrahima are back to planning another HUGE ride to unite the Philadelphia biking community! Their Ride DNC (Democratic National Convention, obviously) came to fruition after their wildly successful Poperide (AKA when the Pontiff came to town)....