Climate Change

Can we equate a few hot days to ‘climate change?’ Here are the stats showing how we experience climate change in the local region. This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen...

Green Philly joins over 250 news outlets from around the globe to shine light on the climate crisis The Green Philly team is excited to announce our participation in Covering Climate Now, a project co-founded by the Columbia Journal Review...

Banner Posed the Question “Climate Is Changing: Why Isn’t PECO?” Last week, before activists were arrested at Philly’s Democratic Party headquarters, activists from Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) dropped a banner from the west-side roof edge of PECO’s Headquarters building...

Sunrise Movement Activists Push for a DNC-Hosted Climate Change Debate Yesterday, eleven people were arrested in Center City by Philadelphia police during a sit-in to pressure Democratic representatives to publicly endorse a climate debate. They were among over a hundred...

As a Green Philly reader, you probably do your part. Taking cloth bags to the market, turning the water off when brushing your teeth, and even buying a hybrid car or getting solar panels on the roof of your home....

Every year for the past 20 years, a group of housemates and friends at 4821-23 Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia make our porch into a different modern horror on Halloween night. We construct a labyrinth filled with dark corners and...

ICYMI: We’re heading full speed towards climate disaster, according to an alarming report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change on Monday. By 2040, we could see a temperature increase of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, with a mass die-off...

Due to a new podcast that we’ll drop soon, I found myself at the Podcast Movement conference networking party a few weeks ago. I was sampling the typical food (i.e., Beiler’s donuts) at Reading Terminal as I was trying to...

Indoor mold is a public health issue (often linked to and worsened by climate change) in Philadelphia. There are many businesses based on solving this problem, but no federal, state or city standards for indoor mold. In Philadelphia, your protections...