Image above used under license from Daniel Beckemeier stock.adobe.com. Last week, the City Council met to discuss alternatives to trash incineration. Councilmember Jamie Gauthier has been working to halt trash incineration entirely with the Stop Trashing Our Air Act. If passed, it would ban Philadelphia from burning any collected trash. Currently, 40% of Philadelphia’s trash […]

image above courtesy of Baker Industries Allyson Gross began working as a line assembly lead at Baker Industries in September 2024. She had recently been released from incarceration for manufacturing or possession with intent to deliver and was seeking employment. A contact at Baker Industries referred her, and she immediately heard back after filling out […]

About three years ago, Mekia Elizabeth Matthews was gifted a community space by a neighbor. She decided to turn it into an afterschool space for the children in her neighborhood.  She lives in Harmony Hill, the neighborhood surrounding Fernhill park in Southwest Germantown and the after school program is called the Harmony Home Team. The […]

Stock photo of a grocery store aisle. Photo courtesy of Pexels.   According to a 2023 Feeding America study, 17% of the population in Philadelphia is food insecure, with the average cost for a meal coming in at $3.96. In New York, newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a campaign promise to voters to open […]

image above | A panel of speakers discusses energy equity at the 2025 ECA conference   Helene McGregor is a 77-year-old Neighborhood Energy Center (NEC) worker at Center in the Park in Germantown. Her work consists of helping Philadelphians in the 19139, 19144, and 19150 zip codes obtain financial help with their energy bills.  She […]

Dr. Revati Prasad of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and Christopher Wink of Technical.ly deliver the Keynote address at the Tech Learning Collaborative’s 2025 conference.   Zabeehullah Yadgar is an Afghan immigrant who moved to the United States in 2023. He is now in the nine-month Digital Bridge Peer Facilitator program at The […]