Sponsored Content: Community volunteers, with the help of nonprofit and private sector, create urban pollinator habitat in Point Breeze park There’s a buzz around the new native plant habitats at ...

Family-Friendly Photo Walk at Tacony Creek Park Saturday, August 9 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Meet at the Whitaker Ave Gateway, Tacony Creek Park Join us for a family-friendly Photo Walk along Tacony Creek ...

Start your morning with intention, meet your neighbors, and celebrate the guardians of our natural world with the Glow Together Eastwick Walking Group. This walking group will meet on alternating days ...

Hospital clowns are a cross between improv comedians and social workers. You don’t have a memorized script. You respond to the moment. Sometimes people just want a listening ear.

Today, Philadelphia’s public swimming pools dominate the water recreation space. But for centuries, it was the city’s rivers, lakes and creeks that residents flocked to in the summertime. Some ...

In several Northeast Philadelphia neighborhoods, including Port Richmond and Wissinoming, I-95 has cut off access to the Delaware waterfront for decades. Outdoor exercise classes like Yoga on the Pier ...

The sweet potato pies Clark’s aunts brought to family gatherings throughout her childhood were so delicious that she would ask to take a whole pie home to share and savor with her sisters. Now she ...

So how do we keep moving composting forward? Via the age-old process of organizing, advocating and holding our elected and city officials accountable.

Philly Unwrapped aims to address the ubiquity of single-use packing waste in food service establishments. This local coalition was launched in early 2023 by ECHO Systems, a decade-old Philly-based ...

The American Lung Association has released its latest annual report on the state of the nation’s air — and the news isn’t good for Philadelphia. In last year’s report, the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden ...

At St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, a tantrum looms. Scalp bristling with electrodes, a three-year-old boy remains stubbornly unmoved by his parents’ pleas that he take his medication. Then ...

As temperatures climb to 95 degrees, residents of Mill Creek flock to the best place in the neighborhood to cool down: Fletcher Pool.