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Join your neighbors to spruce up city's open spaces
Philadelphia Daily News, May 6, 2010
Ninety-four parks will participate in Saturday's LOVE Your Park event, getting tender loving care from volunteers committed to keeping Philadelphia's green spaces beautiful.
By Diane Mastrull
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010
n a Western Pennsylvania town, a defunct lead-acid battery plant found new life, its success cited by Gov. Rendell as proof of the green economy's potential for powering a manufacturing revival.
By Beth D'Addono
Philadelphia Daily News, April 29, 2010
VEGETABLE gardening is suddenly in vogue.

Seed sales at the Warminster-based Burpee & Co. have spiked 15 percent since January, one sign that more Americans then ever are following first lady Michelle Obama's lead and planting a vegetable garden.
By Sandy Bauers
Philly.com, April 28, 2010
Hack, hack. Cough, cough.

The air quality in the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland region went from being the 20th worst in the nation to the 12th, according to an annual report released today by the American Lung Association.
By Nicole Contosta
University City Review , April 28, 2010
Marred by vacant lots, vacant storefronts and abandoned residential homes, Baltimore Ave between the 4900 and 5200 blocks is in serious need of a make over. Though determining that a…
By Sandy Bauers
Philly.com, April 27, 2010
Household recycling was just about to get a whole lot harder. Or, probably more expensive.

But the state legislature stepped in.
By Becky Batcha
Philadelphia Daily News, April 27, 2010
EMILY LANDSBURG started and sold her first company, a business taking care of people's boats, when she was just a few years out of college.
By Vance Lehmkuhl
Philly.com, April 26, 2010

Philly's top bicycle nemesis is back - and we've got him!

Right after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood proposed a "sea change" in transportation policy to "make biking as important as driving" - by building more bike lanes and maybe even an interstate bike-path system - Stu Bykofsky weighs in derisively on local efforts along those lines.

By Sandy Bauers
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 2010
For a quarter-century, Liz Robinson has tried to perfect the Philadelphia rowhouse.
Besides good fresh food and Sunday hours, area farmers markets offer a chance to meet the folks who grow the eats.
By Dianna Marder
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 2010
From inside a large gray trailer marked "M&B Fairview Farm," Bart Hill greets a stream of customers who line up for bacon from his heritage pigs and big brown eggs from his Barred Rock chickens.