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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....

At our house, we know Summer is on the rise when our bananas brown before we have a chance to eat them. The good news is those too-ripe bananas are perfect for making healthified baked goods! This week I turned...

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)....

This is an excerpt from the May 2016 edition of the Good Economist from the Sustainable Business Network. Read the entire issue online here. Philadelphia Takes Critical Step Towards Becoming the Social Enterprise Capital of the World Philadelphia City Council’s...