Trust for Public Land

The space provides students access to an outdoor learning space and decreases the park equity gap in the Olney neighborhood. A newly renovated community schoolyard at James R. Lowell Elementary School in Olney provides green space to students while integrating green...

Art is a powerful tool for expressing our voices and experiences, and a vehicle for organizing change. In Philadelphia, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) are using public art to engage city residents in...

Philly jumped four spots in 2020, to be back at its 2019 ranking. The Trust for Public Land released its 2021 ParkScore® rankings, announcing that Philly placed 19th. Why the decline? Blame a lack of equity and budget cuts. Philadelphia’s...

The Tyler School and The Trust for Public Land are teaming up through Heat Response PHL. Here’s how it’s working.    Education is the first step to tackling climate change. Art is a form of education that everyone can understand, regardless of age, background, and previous level of environmental knowledge.  Meet: Heat Response PHL, a new project...

The Trust for Public Land released its annual list of the country’s metropolitan park systems. As warmer weather and cabin fever draws local residents out of their homes during quarantine, only a handful of places remain open where people are...