Southport: A Battle for the Future of Philadelphia’s Waterfront
originally written by Stephen Landis at stephentlandis.wordpress.com On August 3, 1684, as an influx of early business developers flocked to the new port city, Philadelphia founder William Penn issued an …
We are here!
Green Justice Philly is here! We launched today at a great rally which started in Thomas Paine Plaza on a beautiful autumn afternoon and ended in the offices of city …
Kayaktivists on the Schyulkill
As kayaktivists in Seattle were preventing Shell from heading to the Arctic to Drill, here in Philly, a few of us launched a caravan of crude oil tankers on the river at …
Unionizing the Climate Movement: NYC Edition
“If you’re not at the table, you’re what’s for dinner,” said Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance to a packed room of about 200 …
Transparency about our energy future
Yesterday’s post in the Inquirer titled U.S. won’t weaken oil-train public disclosure rules was heartening. The Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration referred to transparency when they denied the railroads request …
Living Next Door to an Energy Hub
Great little video posted by Philly.com with West Passyunk Neighbors Association Jennifer Harrison discussing living next door to the PES oil refinery in South Philadelphia. She details how the monitoring station …
Actions – What you can do
Things to read and sign and share, all written by our team. On 4/6/15, see Judy Wick’s guest post on Food & Water Watch‘s blog titled Standing up for Philadelphia’s …
Support a clean, local energy hub
Despite reading, learning, talking about energy for the past several months, I just stumbled upon this blog post (Support a Clean, Local Energy Hub: Choose PA Wind in 2015) by …