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Big Green Party is Tomorrow! We’re so excited to celebrate the Big Green Party with you tomorrow! Along with our co-hosts, the Sustainability Nexus, we’re looking forward to the event. Thank you for all the enthusiasm – we are excited...

Happy Wednesday! What a better way than to spend your lunch break today than on the Twitterverse with us? We’ll be hosting a Twitter chat at noon with Generocity (@Generocity) and the Sustainability Nexus (Co_nexus) based on “What’s happening in sustainability in...

Is your dream to be published? Good news for you! Local publishing rockstars company Head & the Hand Press are accepting submissions of art, photography, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction for their upcoming Corn Belt Almanac. Just hurry – submissions close on...

Want to make a difference in your neighborhood? Organizing a cleanup doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Remember that amazing Fairmount neighborhood cleanup earlier in the Fall? Although the weather outside isn’t ideal to pick up trash, it’s the...

Happy Monday, readers! It’s a big week for us here at Green Philly. Our Big Green Party, cohosted by City CoHo is this Friday! We’re excited to hang out with you in person and talk about sustainability. What else can...

There’s a lot of buzz right now about Philly’s “potential” as an energy hub for natural gas and a new pipeline, bringing jobs and money to the city. However, there’s a ton of dangers, too: leaks, air pollution and overall...

Happy Friday, readers! Now that we’ve assessed if Philly really is the greenest city, launched a benchmarking tool and tried to give away all of our possessions on Facebook, it feels like we could all use a bourbon. Right? (We also...

This is a post in our socially conscious media series. Here’s what our new column is all about, in case you missed it. Whether Cheryl Strayed’s journey in Wild gave you the camping bug or swear off the outdoors, United By...

How can you recycle those #3 plastics? Bad news, Philly: Not all those #1-7 plastics are recyclable anymore. So the #3 and #6 foam (aka styrofoam) plastics should go into the trash, instead. Why the change in plastics recycling? Overall, the recycling...