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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