Researchers found that improving abandoned properties, cutting weeds and fixing broken windows reduced shootings in Philly

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Philadelphia plans to buy 100% of the energy from a giant new solar farm in Adams County

Half Philly’s recycling is sold to Waste Management at $78 per ton. The other half is incinerated at a Southwest Philadelphia Covanta facility.

Philadelphia is one of 20 winners of the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge

The ~$2 million award will bolster renewable energy and alternative transportation efforts.

DSA-backed state House candidates unpack their environmental agenda for Harrisburg

A new art installation at FDR Park will draw attention to the effects humans have on the natural landscape

How many potentially toxic industrial sites are in your neighborhood? Check out this new map.

Faber Spirits is offering free paper straws to buyers of its Single Prop Rum if they sign a ‘No Plastics Pact’

People should be raising hell about the lack of sidewalk trees in new Philly developments, says Fels managing director Diana Lind

Street sweeping in Philly: A history of the city’s efforts to keep itself clean

Philadelphia is the only major city in the U.S. without a street sweeping program.

Philly signed a new climate action plan yesterday, with goals to create zero waste and achieve 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035

The Eagles have announced a partnership with Braskem, the Philadelphia-based plastics giant, on a major recycling push

Election 2018

GOP gov candidate Scott Wagner said climate change is real and some of his Facebook fans are not happy

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Billy Penn in Harrisburg

‘Young and naive’ climate activist Rose Strauss wants a word with Gov. Wolf

What's up with those campaign donations from the fossil fuel industry?

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Inside Philadelphia’s green roof revolution

Over the past two decades, the city has evolved from a green-roof backwater to a leader in the field.

Solar-powered bus shelters have arrived in Philadelphia

The city didn't make a big deal about it yet "to make sure installation went well."

A new Solarize Philly project aims to make solar panels affordable for 1,000 middle- to low-income households

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For migrating birds, the Philly skyline can be deadly

Collisions led to 1,000 deaths a year in a single two-block radius, one study found.

Later this month you can try ‘Philadelphia Watershed Ice’ — a collab between Little Baby’s, PlanPhilly + the Circuit Trails

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Germantown is home to the oldest surviving rose garden in America