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Step one of fighting trash: Knowing where it is. Yesterday, the City of Philadelphia’s Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet revealed a city-wide Litter Index, an indexed map of litter conditions on city streets, vacant lots, and other public properties. Philadelphia Litter Index...

It’s time to nominate those women making a difference in conservation! PennFuture opened nominations for its 4th Annual Celebrating Women in Conservation Awards, which honors the accomplishments of five exceptional women in Pennsylvania. The awards will be on Thursday, April...

Soooo it seems that the entire city WILL shut down on Thursday due to Eagles fever. More importantly: the Streets Department is declaring a holiday schedule for Thursday. The residential trash and recycling will be delayed and is suspended on...

Last evening, the Office of Sustainability (OOS), Mayor Kenney and the sustainability community celebrated one year of sustainability at the Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest. (Sidenote: If you’re going to throw a green party in winter, why not host it at the...

Philly announced it was named to the top 20 cities competing for Amazon’s second headquarters. At first glance, Amazon in the city sounds alluring. 50,000 new high-skilled jobs (many over $100,000)! $5 billion invested in “the community” (i.e., building the Amazon...

Remember when winter was so warm that we (almost) celebrated climate change? With a recent cold snap and bomb cyclone, it feels like meteorologists are just inventing new weather terms now. (Or at least 5 people stated around the office...

Oh hey there, 2018. Somewhere between the champagne at midnight and bomb cyclones that even closed Whole Foods at 3 PM, we’re already well into the new year! Despite the tone that kicked off 2017, it turned out to be...

Oh, the 2017 tax bill. Currently, there’s an Electric Vehicle (EV) tax credit (Section 30D) that allows consumers to claim up to $7,500 when purchasing an EV, anywhere in the USA. Depending on how many electric vehicles enter our fleet,...

On November 4th, 2017, we met a monster. Its name was Fill, short for landfill. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t an actual monster, but the idea behind it was just as frightening. As we walked into Temple’s Mitten Hall for...