SEPTA does not subscribe to Terminal, Transit’s customer experience platform. Rather, it relies on its own methods to acquire customer feedback. The agency conducts a quarterly customer satisfaction ...

Philadelphia is so far behind its Vision Zero goals that in 2024 Mayor Cherelle Parker moved the target of zero traffic fatalities back 20 years, from 2030 to 2050. “Vision Zero is working,” says ...

Nathan McWilliams hopes his business, Tree In Me LLC, can be a training hub to give his community the tools, skills and space to connect with nature as gardeners, hikers, naturalists, conservationists ...

We know that our unwanted items, which we dutifully put in plastic trash bags that are carted from our vision, don’t vanish. In the United States, most trash still goes to landfills, where it becomes ...

Across the nation, more and more youth are reaching for a bicycle for recreation and as a means of transportation. In fact, the advocacy group PeopleforBikes found in a 2024 survey that ridership for ...

I’ve seen no indication of any large-scale residential composting programs coming in the near future in Philadelphia. But composting is something an individual can do to reduce their carbon impact.

When a vehicle is stopped or parked in the bike lane, Amanda Parezo, a disabled Philadelphian, has to roll into the street, greatly increasing her risk of injury. “I feel like something's going to ...

If the School District of Philadelphia is to be believed, students will be better served by Lankenau closing and having its programs merged into W.B. Saul High School. Students and teachers say ...

The snow that fell directly onto the bike lanes and that the City did not clear wasn’t the only challenge. “Ignoring it is bad enough, but they’ve shoved piles of snow into the bike lanes,” Kahler ...

The 15th Philadelphia Bike Expo aims to instill cycling confidence in young people with its Kids Arena, hoping to build on the nationwide, upward trend of kids choosing to bike.

Filmmaker Melissa Langer’s 2025 documentary, “In Excess,” probes into the unseen places where Philadelphia’s litter ends up.

Founded on her conviction that farms should exist in cities, Amanda Staples began to build Germantown Kitchen Garden as a “hybrid homestead and tiny business” that she envisioned. “It makes it a hell ...