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网页2024年9月1日 · Meet Craig Santoro, a bike commuter whose trek to work involves constantly dodging cars. From the vehicles parked in bike lanes to the vehicles whizzing by in driving lanes, the city’s streets are always keeping Craig on his toes. Cue the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s bike patrol. Follow Craig and the PPA as they bring us.
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网页Grid is Greater Philadelphia’s only free sustainable monthly magazine. Check out past issues. If you’d like to pitch a story or learn about freelance opportunities, please use this form. Since 2008, Grid has provided our readers with insightful coverage of the most important issues of our time, including climate change and social justice, while showcasing Philadelphia’s role as a ...
Since 2012, Philadelphia has been installing green roofs and rain ...
网页2024年5月30日 · Our Water Matters is an ongoing series produced through an editorial collaboration of the Chestnut Hill Local, Delaware Currents and Grid Magazine. Ever since the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) created a plan to fix its archaic sewer systems in 2011, proponents have held up the resulting program — Green City, Clean Waters — as a crown jewel of the department. But more than a decade ...
Updates on Grid’s flood reporting in Camden, Venice Island, …
网页2024年9月1日 · Camden. In June 2021, Grid published a story on flooding in Camden’s Cramer Hill neighborhood, highlighting the disaster’s disparate impact on low-income communities of color. Since Grid last checked in, Franco Montalto, an engineering professor and researcher at Drexel University, and his team completed an advanced model that can simulate a variety of different infrastructure updates and ...
More than 10,000 students in Philadelphia don’t have adequate …
网页3 天之前 · Before her mother died in 2020 at age 46 of heart failure, complicated by diabetes, lupus and lung disease, Lelache Word (aka Lela), then 15, was living in Arizona with her mother, stepfather and step-siblings. Strapped by her mother’s staggering medical bills, the family sometimes slept in the car or hotels. After her mother’s death, Word moved to her birth father’s home in Philadelphia ...
Philly is spending $2B+ to fix its sewage problem. But is Green City ...
网页2023年12月1日 · In the early 1700s, botanist John Bartram surveyed his farmland abutting the banks of the Schuylkill River in what is now Southwest Philadelphia and had an idea: build a garden for his beloved plants. Approaching its 300th anniversary, the modern Bartram’s Garden is a National Historic Site and a gem of Philadelphia’s park system. But the landscape around Bartram, and indeed much of the ...
A Black-led, parent-driven organization is pushing the School …
网页3 天之前 · On a treeless sidewalk on a day in May that feels much hotter than it’s 75 degrees, there’s an ice cream truck serving a long line of people, while several plastic machines are cranking out a flurry of bubbles. Some of the bubbles hurtle toward 440 North Broad Street, the headquarters of the School District of Philadelphia. A few dozen women clad in purple Lift Every Voice Philly t-shirts ...
Philly floods—a lot. The city’s floodplain expert tells us what we …
网页2021年7月21日 · Flooding is already the number one natural hazard here in Philadelphia, and it’s likely to become more and more prevalent by the end of the century. My colleagues at the Office of Sustainability have done some science around the future of sea-level rise. The 1% chance floodplain is likely to be expanded into what is currently known as the 0.2 ...
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网页3 天之前 · For two decades, author Jeff Goodell has been working the climate beat for Rolling Stone magazine. He says it was while writing his first book about the coal industry and witnessing mountaintop removal mining that he understood the peril the planet is in.