Topic: Climate Change

How to Start a Garden in the City
Gardening experts share practical advice on how to start a garden when you live in a city—whether you have a small patio, rooftop deck or just a sunny windowsill
By Katherine Rapin
50+ ways to help fight climate change
Taking action to protect our planet is the work of our lifetime. Ready to dive in? Here are 50+ ways you can actually make an impact.
By Katherine Rapin and Josh Middleton
How Cities Can Fight Climate Change
Drexel’s Metro Finance director talks to Iina Oilinki, the head of Helsinki’s ambitious effort to curb its polluting emissions, about how business and government can work together to save the environment
By Bruce Katz
A Green Stimulus for Philly
Penn’s resident climate wonk co-wrote a letter urging Congress to green its pandemic response. Could the public investments he supports help solve Philly’s poverty epidemic, too?
By Brianna Baker
The Other Crisis We Can’t Ignore
What we can learn about fighting climate change from our fight against the coronavirus.
By Brianna Baker
In It Together
Local activist and entrepreneur Judy Wicks’ newest project aims to unite and strengthen our state’s regional economies. It could be just what we all need in this time of climate—and coronavirus—crisis.
By Brianna Baker
(Environmental) Justice for All
North Philly’s Serenity Soular is training workers and installing solar panels in communities hardest hit by climate change
By Courtney DuChene
One Man’s Trash …
The Energy Co-Op in Mount Airy turns Philly’s garbage into renewable energy. Now it’s available to all Philadelphians
By Courtney DuChene
Can Big Money Rescue the Climate?
Fixing the environment is a moral—and financial—imperative. Already, Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director notes, 2020 is proving transformative
By Bruce Katz and Colin Higgins
Say No to Methane
Methane emissions fuel the climate crisis and cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually. A clean air advocate urges a stop to proposed EPA rules allowing more of it.
By Joseph Otis Minott