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CitizenCast

Feb 9, 2022

Since 2014, Food Connect has tackled the problems of rampant food waste and hunger with a logistical solution: connecting people in need of food with people who have excess food


Jan 20, 2022

In this episode of Ideas We Should Steal: the benefits of trees. They go beyond health, heat and raised property values. Here, a few ways other cities are increasing their tree canopies, and how we can follow suit.


Jan 4, 2022

In this Ideas We Should Steal: Canada. Eight years ago, Edmonton, started a citywide effort to celebrate its intense cold, rather than hide from it. Would doing the same here make winter more bearable?


Aug 19, 2020

Russel Zerbo of the Clean Air Council and Christina D. Rosan, an associate professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, discuss with WURD host Charles Ellison the hot weather crisis in Philly and steps we can take to mitigate it.


Jun 23, 2020

Heat and Covid-19 could make this the most dangerous summer on record. Two urban environmentalists with ways to make a more sustainable, resilient and just city.