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Harry Hayman's articles and insights about sustainability.

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Sustainability October 9, 2026

A City Called Where Everything Grows Fined His Front Yard Garden

A Chino man planted a food garden and ended up at a code hearing. I look at what a code sees in a front yard and what Philadelphia could write down.

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Sustainability September 20, 2026

The Land Under Philadelphia's Growing Spaces

Philadelphia counted 450 growing spaces on nearly 130 acres, and I want to talk plainly about who actually owns the ground under them.

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Sustainability September 19, 2026

How Six Illegal Curb Cuts Became Tucson Policy

A Tucson neighbor cut his own curb with a saw in 1998, and Philadelphia already owns the tools to ask the same question on our blocks.

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Sustainability September 9, 2026

Circular, Not Circuitous: Catching Up With Erika Allen

I catch up with Erika Allen of Urban Growers Collective and learn that my winding Philadelphia food career was circular all along.

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Sustainability September 6, 2026

The Grid Price Behind Every Head of Lettuce

Philadelphia's power grid just got a lot more expensive to run on, and I look at what that means for growing food indoors here.

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Sustainability September 6, 2026

Fourteen Grants for Fresh Produce, and the Winter Ahead

Philadelphia just funded fresh produce grants in fourteen neighborhoods. I look at why year round local growing is still the missing piece each winter.

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Sustainability August 31, 2026

Turning Rescued Food Into a Product Line, and Why That Is an Economic Question

A Philadelphia effort is testing whether food headed for the waste stream can pay for the rescue operation that saved it.

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Sustainability August 26, 2026

Circular Philadelphia's Case for Treating Waste as Inventory

Circular Philadelphia board president Mike Tannenbaum and Harry Hayman on whether what Philadelphia burns and buries is waste or inventory.

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Sustainability August 26, 2026

Philadelphia Has a Gas Works and a Water Works. Why Not a Food Works?

I walked North Broad Street for a new film and argued that Philadelphia should grow food inside the buildings this city already owns.

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