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We are outraged and mourn the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, and too many black Americans. We stand in solidarity with the black community who have suffered injustices for too long. Over the past...

Retrievr is SmartCityPHL’s first winner of the Pitch & Pilot challenge Looking to responsibly rid hard-to-recycle items like clothing, electronics and microwaves? There’s a new app for that. The City of Philadelphia announced a partnership with Retrievr. Residents can schedule...

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...