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These businesses are making an impact in our community, by employing community members as well as positively affecting our environment. Impact businesses are proof that for-profit enterprises can be stewards of social and environmental change, creating that triple-bottom line. Philadelphia’s SustainPHL...

This nominee prioritizes environmental responsibility, social equity, and economic prosperity but also influences and inspires broader groups of people to adopt these principles. Philadelphia’s SustainPHL Awards highlights and celebrates these community changemakers. Join us to honor them and announce the recipient at the SustainPHL Awards...

Neighbors revived the site at South Philadelphia High School in 2016. Today, there’s more food than they have hands to harvest. Patti Tahan beckoned neighbors into the community garden she stewards on a muggy August morning in South Philadelphia. Bordered...

The story behind ‘Citywide’ setting a new standard for Hollywood At first glance, “Citywide,” a romantic comedy set in Philadelphia, might seem like just another low-budget film. But this unheralded work is poised to revolutionize Hollywood. “Citywide” stands as the...

The New Kensington Community Development Corp. is working to revive the farm, which was a community resource for 25 years before it succumbed amid labor unrest, infrastructure concerns, and financial disarray. In the year since Greensgrow suddenly closed last July,...

After a year spent defining its own structure, the commission is funding community-scale solutions for healthy foods and clean air, water and homes. It’s been a year and a half since the Philadelphia Environmental Justice Advisory Commission was first convened...

Joe Caltagirone turned a vacant lot into a community landmark. Now, he’s on a mission to help pollinators like monarch butterflies. When Joe Caltagirone bought the house he grew up in about 30 years ago in Olde Richmond, he never...

Junes in Philadelphia are increasingly hotter, so this past month was an exception. Despite temperatures rising (and even breaking the global temperature records this week), June was slightly cooler and wetter than normal, according to new data from Climate Central....

The city’s investment will help secure the future of 91 abandoned properties that stewards have turned into neighborhood anchors. Mara Henao remembers feeding corn into a grinder with her grandparents during her childhood in Colombia, part of the process of...