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Guess what you guys.. we’re counting down until we can hit the polls! Who’s excited! (You should be.) With Election Day less than a week away, you’ll want to be well prepped for the polls. Although we’ve decided to not publicly...

The 2015 Mayoral democratic candidates have made their rounds amongst the forums, and Sustainable Business Network (SBN) had their turn hosting on Saturday evening. A few hundred community members heard five of the candidates discuss small business incentives, taxes, schools and...

As some of you may remember, we started a “Ban the Bag day” in July 2012 to bring awareness to plastic bag legislation in Philadelphia. We synced up with Logan Welde of the Clean Air Council and other environmental organizations...

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) dropped the news (via press release) that President Drew Becher is resigning on June 1st. Becher has been with the PHS since 2010 and is leaving for San Francisco, where his partner Eric Lochner accepted...

Join Sustrana for #DayWithoutWaste on April 9th! According to their website, There’s really not much to a Day Without Waste. You just photograph or otherwise catalogue your waste (we used group emails) and publicize the day and your results. We decided to...

Exciting times, friends: it’s an election year! The Sustainable Business Network has big goals for our next Mayor & City Council Members. Their campaign, the Good Economy Challenge, is trying to persuade candidates to embrace a more sustainably-focused, local economy. So...

Philadelphia has a great network of universities around making strides in sustainability. We’ll be featuring campus updates more on Green Philly so you can stay tuned into what these amazing students are up to! The March edition of the Green Philly College update...

Despite March 6th’s untimely snowy forecast, DVGBC’s Tri-State Sustainability Symposium saw hundreds of devoted attendees spill through Temple University’s gates. Although this day-long event (which sees industry leaders under one roof) was in its fifth year, this girl was a first-timer,...

Who’s your favorite mayoral candidate? We got our first taste of the various points of views last night at Next Great City’s Mayoral Forum. Six candidates answered questions slung by WHYY’s Dave Davies, from housing to school lunches to plastic...