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The Trust for Public Land released its annual list of the country’s metropolitan park systems. As warmer weather and cabin fever draws local residents out of their homes during quarantine, only a handful of places remain open where people are...

Photo by Julian Wan on Unsplash The City of Philadelphia instructs residents to always wear a mask in public, even if you expect to stay six feet away from other individuals. (Yes, that means if you’re outside running, biking, or...

Another socially-distant activity for your quarantine Are you a non-professional gardener from PA, NJ or Delaware? The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) wants you to enter its 2020 PHS Gardening Contest. Earn points for sustainable things like composting, planting pollinator-friendly pots,...

Keys? Check. Phone? Check. Mask? Check. City says: regardless if you’re biking, running, doing errands, walking, or hanging out in a park – Mask up. The weather’s warmer, everyone’s outside and half of Philadelphia is debating on Next Door whether...

As climate change brings hotter and wetter weather to Philly, it can strain our waterways due to our archaic systems. Here’s why. Like many major cities across the country, Philly uses a Combined Sewage System to prevent localized flooding in...

Hoard that recycling for every-other-week pickup *** UPDATE 7/1/20: Weekly recycling will resume beginning Monday, July 6th. The Streets Department announced that its biweekly recycling pickup will resume through June 26th. Trash will continue (or close) to its normal weekly...

Want to get politically engaged? Like everything right now it’s a little more complicated than usual. With state capitals closed due to the current pandemic, lobbyists and constituents have increased hurdles for access to legislators. For one, legislators are mainly...

This piece originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and is republished as a part of our Broke in Philly mini-series, the Hidden Environmental Costs of COVID-19, a partnership between Green Philly and Next City. Photographs of crowded parks filled my...

The Academy of Natural Sciences may be closed to the public. But one collection the public never sees holds a piece of history with an interesting connection to climate change. In a corner inaccessible to the public, plant samples are tucked...