SustainPHL 2016 award recipients

As we anxiously await footage from SustainPHL 2017, we want to give you a #TBT to when GreenFutures, the Philadelphia School District accepted their SustainPHL 2016 Sustainable Communities award. Watch their speeches below. SustainPHL 2016: Green Futures

Although Garrett Melby felt like a guest at SustainPHL 2016, his GodoCompany Ventures received the Business Innovation of the Year award. GoodCompany Ventures has graduated over 70 entrepreneurs through its mission. However, they’ll be able to solve future problems of climate...

How can a vision turn into reality? In 1996, Morris Holland Derry III was incarcerated and realized that 75-80% of the prisoners would become reincarcerated. Not satisfied with those high statistics, Derry founded No More Pain, a nonprofit organization that...

How can individuals fight climate change? Sam Holloschutz believes education is key to getting your neighbors and friends on board. Watch him give his hyperlocal secrets as he accepts his Neighborhood Champion Award during SustainPHL 2016. SustainPHL 2016: Sam Holloschutz,...

The Rad Dish Co-Op started as an experiment at Temple University in Spring 2014. This student-run cafe is locally sourced and functions with a zero-waste model. That’s why the first SustainPHL award went to this incredible group of students! Watch the...

Kindling catches on to build a fire, eh? We’ve all been there – making an effort to bike in this 30* weather or summer 90 degrees for the sake of sustainability. Let’s start celebrating those recycling hoarding moments to all...

A former ‘badlands’ spaced filled with drugs and trash has transformed into a space where farmers market flourish and crime has gone down 89%. Leroy Fisher has played an integral part in Hunting Park’s revitalization project which was also supported...

Saleem Chapman, Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Sustainable Business Network, received the inaugural SustainPHL Local Advocate award on August 18th, 2016. However, he pumped the crowd and motivated us to get off our tails and do something more than the...

SustainPHL finally happened last evening – and it was one for the books! We’ll get to all the details of how the night went, including all the people and organizations who made the event possible soon. But in the meantime,...