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Infographic: This Lane is Your Lane
Written and illustrated by Bryan Satalino.
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Mayor Parker and administration officials answer Grid’s questions on sustainability efforts
The soaring rhetoric of campaign trails often meets the hard realities of governance once candidates take office. Competing demands, limited budgets and City Council’s own priorities can make for a ...
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Urban agriculture continues to suffer from lack of land security
In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which ...
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With the help of a big federal grant, the City, nonprofits and volunteers are working to reverse the loss of urban tree canopy in Philadelphia
Nearly two years after the launch of the Philly Tree Plan, the City’s ambitious effort to reverse decades of urban canopy loss is still in its infancy. A $12 million U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
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Mayor Cherelle Parker: Year One
Environmental issues are rarely at the top of the political agenda. If they were, we might not need this special issue looking at Mayor Cherelle Parker’s first year. Given the long list of ...
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With an expansive and amorphous mandate, the Philadelphia Environmental Justice Advisory Commission is off to a sluggish start
Three years after its launch, the Philadelphia Environmental Justice Advisory Commission (PEJAC) has yet to assert itself as an impactful player in efforts to ensure that all Philadelphians live free ...
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Why are there so many black squirrels in Philadelphia?
In 2003 former Tuskegee Airman and pioneering Black journalist Chuck Stone wrote “Squizzy the Black Squirrel,” about a Philadelphia boy who bonds with a black squirrel in Fairmount Park. Squizzy was ...
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Philly’s progress toward its carbon-neutrality goals is difficult to gauge
Mayor Cherelle Parker leads Philadelphia at a key point in the fight against climate change. By 2030 — that is, in a mere five years — the City hopes to have slashed municipal emissions in half and ...
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Public Archaeology at Newlin Grist Mill
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In 2022, PGW budgeted for a geothermal feasibility study. Three years later, they have nothing to show for it
What’s a fossil fuel utility to do in a rapidly warming world? That was the question posed by a study the City released jointly with Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), the country’s largest ...
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Editor’s Notes: No Power, No Justice
I had never heard of the Philadelphia Art Commission back in 2022 when I tuned in to a Zoom meeting about plans to build a driving range at the Cobbs Creek Golf Course. When reporting on a public ...
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What have Mayor Parker’s signature “clean” initiatives achieved thus far?
At her inauguration on January 2, 2024, Cherelle Parker said, “We will make Philadelphia the safest, cleanest and greenest big city in the nation.” Philadelphia has long been plagued by litter, poorly ...