Philly Unpacked: What’s going on with Philly’s Schools?
“Philly Unpacked” looked at the plan to close 17 Philadelphia public schools.
Water, water everywhere
Water, water everywhere By: Kyle Bagenstose | Chestnut Hill Local, Grid Philly August 28, 2025 | Tagged: Environment, Recreation. FDR Park offers free Community Boating Days with instruction and use of rowboats, kayaks, and canoes. Photo by Kyle Bagenstose The federal Clean Water Act created a regulatory system in which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
Swimming against the current
Swimming against the current By: Kyle Bagenstose | Chestnut Hill Local, Grid Philly August 21, 2025 | Tagged: Environment, Recreation. A man dives into “Devil’s Pool” at the confluence of the Cresheim and Wissahickon Creeks in June 2025. Photo by Kyle Bagenstose. Symiya Taylor, a young woman from West Philadelphia, was keeping cool in the…
Advocates believe Philadelphia’s waterways could be the next great playground — if the City prioritizes it
Advocates believe Philadelphia’s waterways could be the next great playground — if the City prioritizes it By: Kyle Bagenstose | Chestnut Hill Local, Grid Philly August 1, 2025 | Tagged: Environment, Recreation. Boaters get on the water at FDR Park. Photo by Jared Gruenwald. On an unseasonably cool Saturday during one of this spring’s stretches…
Four ways to improve recycling in Philly
Recycling in Philly has lost its way. In recent years, between Covid-caused labor shortages and China no longer buying U.S. recyclables, residents lost faith in the system. Recycling rates plummeted. By spring 2022, Philadelphia’s recycling rate was 8 percent. Today, we’re at a not-much-better 13 percent. (For more on why this is, read this piece from The Citizen.) But there are ways…
Is my recycling being… recycled?
Is my recycling being… recycled? By: Courtney Duchene | Green Philly, The Philadelphia Citizen April 17, 2024 | Tagged: Environment. Todd Lappin via Flickr Philadelphians’ skepticism about the City’s waste policies has led to an abysmal recycling rate. Here’s what really happens after you put out your blue bin — and how the City could…